The Great Canadian "If you were a developer (Just for fun)" Thread - Page 6

urbandreamer · #**101** Posted **Jul 12, 2014, 6:29 PM**

The Toronto Junction is increasingly getting new developments--DuKe Condos and a new apartment building. One site in particular interests me: The triangle currently occupied by a Tim Hortons at St Johns Road and Dundas Street West:

My first quick concept for what I believe is begging to go up here:

The Junction Flatiron - a 6 storey condo loft building:

PH steps back--not fully resolved yet. Ground floor retail. 16-20 units. Could possibly be brick to match the neighbourhood aesthetic. Height lines up with c.1960s office building across the street.

urbandreamer · #**102** Posted **Jul 16, 2014, 12:09 PM**

What happens when your neighbourhood bores you? (Or at least bugs you because it has so much potential yet remains for the most part a strip of empty storefronts?) What happens when local media deem it the new hip neighbourhood?

Maybe you start to dream big

NimbyTect's vision for Dundas Street West and Pacific Toronto.

What it looks like today:

urbandreamer · #**103** Posted **Jul 18, 2014, 8:19 PM**

The Junction keeps on growing ... or is NimbyTect just dream'n up the wrong tree?

Six storey infill to replace the highlighted building here:

urbandreamer · #**104** Posted **Jul 21, 2014, 1:28 PM**

How tall do you want it to be?

urbandreamer · #**105** Posted **Aug 4, 2014, 9:14 AM**

Does anyone remember my plans for Brant & Camden Street?

The Factory Park was designed to make grey look good.

Now, I've asked this question before: is brown the new grey?

It may be if 39 Camden gets out of my head and above ground:

The hole in the streetwall (including the old warehouse on the left) must be filled!

NimbyTect's 39 Camden is a modest midrise loft proposal:

Brown is the new grey--you heard it here first.

urbandreamer · #**106** Posted **Aug 6, 2014, 2:56 PM**

In reality, I'm a pretty cheap person. So maybe I wouldn't make the right call here.

Would you?

urbandreamer · #**107** Posted **Aug 13, 2014, 4:19 PM**

Delete Pizza Pizza/Grand & Toy

Insert KING brant

urbandreamer · #**108** Posted **Aug 15, 2014, 3:51 PM**

Here's a goofy NimbyTect proposal: $***y Place:

ie, the nightmare on Spadina.

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KING brant may be a better proposal though--but then you'd probably have to hire aA to execute it, eh eh?

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Maybe it's time I come up with my fantasy vision for Signature Towers?

urbandreamer · #**109** Posted **Aug 21, 2014, 5:40 PM**

Again, I'm inspired by the aesthetic consultants at aA: NimbyTect's Portland Condovenience vision for the South West corner of King and Portland, Toronto.

urbandreamer · #**110** Posted **Aug 22, 2014, 5:18 PM**

A couple more angles on condovenience for your convenience.

I may find some time to work on the glazing details.

urbandreamer · #**111** Posted **Sep 4, 2014, 3:58 PM**

john gets laide -- a NimbyTect concept for John and Adelaide Street West, Toronto:

urbandreamer · #**112** Posted **Sep 7, 2014, 11:03 PM**

Here's a concept I started today: Bay Street Bore --it's such a bore!-- a "modest" proposal for 800 Bay Street, Toronto.

80 storeys at 800 Bay Street--why not?

urbandreamer · #**113** Posted **Sep 11, 2014, 2:42 PM**

Bay Street Bore won't be so boring when I get around to showing you its redesigned podium

And maybe a model suite?

Podium design doesn't match the tower's aesthetic

urbandreamer · #**114** Posted **Sep 15, 2014, 12:54 PM**

What is a "logft"?

Maybe the world's first logft is NimbyTect's greyed eh?

Depending on demand, it might be growing taller.

urbandreamer · #**115** Posted **Sep 26, 2014, 2:47 PM**

Honest Ed's is closing December 2016. What will replace it? Well condos duh we all know that. But what form and density will they take? NimbyTect's Honest Nimbies attempts to answer that question:

urbandreamer · #**116** Posted **Oct 12, 2014, 6:30 PM**

I broke the news exactly one week ago re: One Bloor West. Now, I wonder, what should go there?

Maybe some red brick?

Or maybe something else? Hmm.

Ashok · #**117** Posted **Oct 12, 2014, 8:07 PM**

^ some of these are really great. How long do you take to draw up each building?

urbandreamer · #**118** Posted **Nov 2, 2014, 5:04 PM**

^It depends. If there's more details and interesting design then obviously longer--perhaps 4-6 hours? If it's a simple quick sketch like Spadina Lofts below, then maybe an hour or two. I have been so busy with life the past 3 weeks I've had trouble finishing something I like--when I'm creating design concepts that challenge me is when I'm happiest.

NimbyTect's Spadina Lofts proposed location: remove this dreary Chinatown corner

Insert a simple yet stylish modern stone and red brick live/work loft building of about 10 storeys:

More deets I hope to come.

Ashok · #**119** Posted **Nov 2, 2014, 6:27 PM**

4-6 hours is not bad. I thought we were talking weeks in the making!

urbandreamer · #**120** Posted **Nov 7, 2014, 5:09 PM**

Ha I don't have the patience nor ability to focus on a single design for weeks' at a time. Although today I rewind back 3 months to King Brant and update the look in stone and red brick:

NimbyTect's King Brant red brick remix in Google Earth:

Looking west on King West:

Looking east:

remix #3 to revise the mass'n and style abit more....