Situated in one of Toronto’s most affluent areas, 1 Yorkville combines local heritage with the prosperous, high-end tourist retail attractions. The building marks the Yonge Street corner of the eponymous promenade in the luxury fashion district and it will border a new pedestrian landscaped boulevard. The green eight-meter wide boulevard was initiated by Rosario Varacalli and it will connect Yorkville Avenue with Cumberland Avenue.
The 1860’s row of Yorkville Village heritage buildings that the development occupies have been fully restored to original charm and elegantly interlaced with the new architecture.
The jewel-like façade in it’s understated sophistication is a stylized architectural interpretation of the exclusive character of the area.
Site 2,171 m2
Building 46,080 m2
Height 59 storeys
Completion date: February, 2019
Toronto’s cultural avenue runs along Bloor Street between Yonge Street and Spadina Avenue. Here, within the span of a few blocks, lies the city’s most refined display of music and art, from the Gardiner Ceramic Museum to Liebeskind’s Royal Ontario Museum, to the Royal Conservatory of Music.
Amid the high-profile neighbours, Exhibit is a powerful architectural statement on the cultural walk of fame. The building’s design combines five stacked white cubes each slightly rotating from the one below. The effect is a refined and poetical sculptural simplicity.
Continuous milky-white balcony railings wrap around the cubes on all sides. The building overlooks the park grounds of the Philosopher’s Walk and the Ontario’s Parliament building, Queens Park.
Site 1,999 m2
Building 31,180 m2
Height 30 storeys
Completed January, 2018
E Condo is a prominent mixed-use development in mid-town Toronto. The building is composed of two high-rise towers with a shared 3-storey podium and occupies the north-east corner of the Yonge Street and Eglinton Avenue intersection, one of the busiest entertainment and public transit nodes in the city.
The two towers are designed as visual markers along Yonge Street. Their cladding is a patterned series of black metal and glass screens detailed to bestow an ethereal architectural quality. The red glass swimming pool projects out in mid-air and cantilevers over the city street, elegantly breaking the verticality of the south tower.
The building’s podium engages the streetscape with its partially covered public piazza and caters to the high pedestrian traffic. The hotel type amenities are tailored for the savvy urbanite and reflect the entertainment nature of the area.
Site 5,884 m2
Buildings 65,700 m2
Height 59 storeys, S tower
Height 36 storeys, N tower
Completion date: February, 2019
Emerald Park is a mixed-use development situated in North York, an upcoming neighbourhood in uptown Toronto. The area is bustling with offices, shops and restaurants of every ethnic variety spread out along Yonge Street, Canada’s longest street. Within it, the development occupies no less than an entire city block.
The residential towers rest on a 3-three storey podium with two levels of retail on ground and second floor, and one level of office space on the third. The fully glazed gym and resort quality spa on the fourth overlook the outdoor cabana style lounge and the rooftop pool.
Colourful and stylish, the building's silhouette dramatically punctuates the surrounding grey monochromatic skyline with luminous green glass and delicate curving. The mixed use program and indoor access to subway make the architecturally distinct Emerald Park a definitive neighbourhood destination.
Site 6,626 m2
Buildings 127,250 m2
Height 40 storeys, E tower
Height 31 storeys, W tower
Completed January, 2017
The buildings in the making.
A glimpse at the construction progress of 1 Yorkville, Emerald Park, E Condos and Exhibit.