Commercially, the Bluedrop building is typical of our infill. Incorporating our city's traditional colourful clapboard vernacular with glass elements. This whole thing is the building, not just the blue half:
In the core area, typical rowhouses with bay windows are the dominant form of infill.
Here is a before shot from Google Streetview:
And here is what replaced that blue house on the left:
Another example:
They're a LITTLE disingenuous as they're supposed to reflect our heritage (we have the strictest heritage laws you can possibly imagine in the core - you even have to get permission from council workers to change your windows, to change the woodwork inside, etc.). Our traditional bay-windowed rowhouses were more modest:
The farther you get from the core (and it really doesn't take long - this next example is ALMOST, within say 4 blocks, in the core) the more suburban they get:
There are also quite a few projects in the work that, unlike the Bluedrop Building, lean MORE toward modern than colourful clapboard - but still, of course, exhibit both.
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) but there's plenty of low-rise and mid-rise to go around. Most of the designs are more contemporary - in some cases the scale is in context with the existing neighborhood, others - not so much:
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