The Perfect House
The new 1 Yonge needs big buildings built to human scale
John Bentley Mays
Special to The Globe and Mail
Published Thursday, Apr. 11 2013, 12:15 PM EDT
Last updated Thursday, Apr. 11 2013, 12:18 PM EDT
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And indeed, it does make sense – at least when seen, as Mr. Pontarini suggests, from a considerable altitude. Glimpsed from up there, the first few miles of Yonge Street will soon seem like a narrow corridor lined by massive buildings, including Great Gulf Homes’s 75-storey One Bloor and MOD Developments’ 60-storey Massey Tower, both designed by Mr. Pontarini. Adding an 88-storey skyscraper, together with a few other companion-pieces ranging between 40 and 80 storeys, at the bottom of Yonge Street will merely be like putting a “bookend” (the architect’s word) on a long shelf of large “books” that already exist (or will soon exist).
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