Pelli Clarke Pelli, Adamson Associates, OJB Landscape Architecture, and developers Oxford Properties Group have unveiled plans for Union Park, a 4.3 million-square-foot marquee development that could reshape the Toronto skyline.
The multi-towered development will bring 3.3 million square feet of offices, 800 residential units, and 200,000 square feet of "high quality retail" to a central site in downtown Toronto. The development is arranged into three towers, with the project's two office skyscrapers designed as near-mirror images of one another. A third tower will include housing, including units designed specifically for families, as well as a new 8,500-square-foot daycare facility, among other amenities. The exact height of each of the towers has not been released, but renderings for the project indicate that Toronto's CN Tower will continue to live on as the city's tallest structure.
Toronto-based Adamson Associates will act as Architect of Record for the project.
A key element of the design involves building a new OJB Landscape Architecture-designed two-acre park atop the city's main rail yard. A portion of the depressed, open-air tracks is due to be covered by the forthcoming Rail Deck Park, and the developers for Union Park have pitched the park element of their project as an extension of that effort.
The project is currently undergoing community input before being submitted to the Toronto City Council for formal consideration. A final project timeline has not been released.
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McUrbanism requires banal glass garbage eyesores flanked by busy, unfriendly landscaping where you would never stay more than 2 minutes
Meh.
Perfect for a meh city like toronto.
Build it.
Commercial gentrification, i.e. real estate profiteering.
OJB is the perfect landscape firm to do this. They can just take all the shit they've designed for the other Live Nation McUrbanism projects they've done and plop it down here.
Canadian Hudson Yards.
+1 Cities become meh when they build more of this stuff.
Pelli Clarke Pelli, UGH.
There's a principle where if you have three of something you have to name them. E.g. the towers could be known as Tom, Dick, and Harry. I can think of other trios.
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