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Burano (building)
Burano is a 50 storey, 163 metre tall residential high-rise condominium complex on Bay Street between Grenville St. and Grosvenor St. in the Discovery District of Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The redevelopment of the site was part of a period of urban renewal of the Toronto financial district in the early 21st century. Toronto City Planning stated that the Burano has "significantly contributed to the improvement of the streetscape and the public realm." History Burano was financed by Lanterra Developments. It was designed by Peter Clewes of architectsAlliance, and is located across the street from Murano, another one of his Toronto projects.UrbanRealtyToronto It is named for an island in Italy. The Burano was designed to be built within the footprint of a [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bay Street, Toronto
Bay Street is a major thoroughfare in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the centre of Toronto's Financial District and is often used by metonymy to refer to Canada's financial services industry since succeeding Montreal's St. James Street in that role in the 1970s. Bay Street begins at Queens Quay (Toronto Harbour) in the south and ends at Davenport Road in the north. The original section of Bay Street ran only as far north as Queen Street West and just south of Front Street where the Grand Trunk rail lines entered into Union Station. Sections north of Queen Street were renamed Bay Street as several other streets were consolidated and several gaps filled in to create a new thoroughfare in the 1920s. The largest of these streets, Terauley Street, ran from Queen Street West to College Street. At these two points, there is a curve in Bay Street. North of College past Grenville Street to Breadalbane Street was St. Vincent Street, which was later bypassed with new alignment t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Historic Site
A historic site or heritage site is an official location where pieces of political, military, cultural, or social history have been preserved due to their cultural heritage value. Historic sites are usually protected by law, and many have been recognized with the official national historic site status. A historic site may be any building, landscape, site or structure that is of local, regional, or national significance. Usually this also means the site must be at least 50 years or older. The National Park Service, U.S. National Park Service defines a historic site as the "location of a significant event, a prehistoric or historic occupation or activity, or a building or structure, whether standing, ruined, or vanished, where the location itself possesses historic, cultural, or archeological value regardless of the value of any existing structure". Historic sites can also mark Public-order crime, public crimes, such as Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia or Robben ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Residential Skyscrapers In Toronto
A residential area is a land used in which housing predominates, as opposed to industrial and commercial areas. Housing may vary significantly between, and through, residential areas. These include single-family housing, multi-family residential, or mobile homes. Zoning for residential use may permit some services or work opportunities or may totally exclude business and industry. It may permit high density land use or only permit low density uses. Residential zoning usually includes a smaller FAR (floor area ratio) than business, commercial or industrial/manufacturing zoning. The area may be large or small. Overview In certain residential areas, especially rural, large tracts of land may have no services whatever, such that residents seeking services must use a motor vehicle or other transportation, so the need for transportation has resulted in land development following existing or planned transport infrastructure such as rail and road. Development patterns may be regu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Tallest Buildings In Toronto
Many of the tallest buildings in Toronto are also the tallest in all of Canada. The tallest structure in Toronto is the CN Tower, which rises . The CN Tower was the tallest free-standing structure on land from 1975 until 2007. However, it is not generally considered a high-rise building as it does not have successive floors that can be occupied. The tallest habitable building in the city is First Canadian Place, which rises 298 metres (978 ft) tall in Toronto's Financial District and was completed in 1975. It also stands as the tallest building in Canada. The history of skyscrapers in Toronto began in 1894 with the construction of the Beard Building, which is often regarded as the first skyscraper in the city. Toronto went through its first building boom in the late 1920s and early 1930s, during which the number of high-rise buildings in the city vastly increased. After this period, there was a great lull in construction between 1932 and 1964 with only a single buildi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
X Condominium
architectsAlliance is a Toronto-based architectural firm headed by architect Peter Clewes. It was formed in 1999 with the merger of Wallman Clewes Bergman (composed of Rudy Wallman, Peter Clewes and Ralph Bergman) and Van Nostrand DiCastri Architects. Their projects include 18 Yorkville, Pier 27, Radio City, Murano, Burano, X the Condominium, MoZo, Twenty Niagara, District Lofts, Tip Top Lofts. The Four Seasons Hotel and Residences in Toronto and an upcoming project in the Bahamas named 12 Mile Cay are significant current projects. In 2005, the firm won the Regent Park housing competition held by the Toronto Community Housing Corporation, in the redevelopment of a social housing community east of downtown Toronto. See also *Peter Clewes Peter Clewes is a Canadian architect and the principal of the Toronto-based firm architectsAlliance. He has been one of the leading architects in the condo boom that has reshaped Toronto in the first decade of the 21st century. His projec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casa Condominio Residenza
Casa Condominio Residenza, or The CASA, is a high-rise condominium building at 33 Charles Street East near the intersection of Bloor Street and Yonge Street in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It features a New Modernist design by architectsAlliance emphasizing glass curtain wall, with balconies wrapped around the building from the podium to the top. An overhanging concrete slab concludes the design at the roof of the final floor. It is lit from underneath at night. The balconies themselves have transparent glazed balustrades, and the podium's main facade facing Charles Street also makes use of glass curtain wall extensively, framed with black brick. On January 13, 2006, ''The Globe and Mail'' reported that in November, 2005, the Casa was one of the three condos with the greatest units sold—81 units. Residents took occupancy in October 2008. On February 15, 2013, Sydnia Yu, ''The Globe and Mail''s real estate correspondent, profiled one of the building's recently sold pentho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SP!RE
SP!RE is a high-rise condominium building located at 70 Adelaide Street East at Church Street in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada by Context Developments. Construction was completed in 2007. The structure was designed by Peter Clewes of architectsAlliance and is 145 metres tall with 322 suites (from 42m² to 228m²) in 45 floors. Education The tower has been assigned to the following schools in the Toronto District School Board: *Elementary and IntermediateMarket Lane Public School(Kindergarten through 8th Grade) *Secondary: Jarvis Collegiate Institute *Technical: Central Technical School *Commercial: West Toronto Collegiate Institutebr>or Northern Secondary School (Toronto), Northern Secondary School (Residents may attend either school) The closest post-secondary institutions are George Brown College, Toronto Metropolitan University, OCAD University and University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heritage Toronto
Heritage Toronto is an agency of the Municipal Government of Toronto that works to builds a better city by bringing people together to explore Toronto’s shared past and peoples’ lived experiences. It is located in St. Lawrence Hall in the city. Its programs include tours, historical plaques, the State of Heritage Report, and online exhibits. Programming Heritage Toronto's programming includes Tours, the Heritage Toronto Awards, Plaques, and special projects. Tours From April/May to October, Heritage Toronto offerwalking, bicycle and bus toursaround the city as well as private tours for smaller groups . Tours are researched, designed and led by local historians, community groups and professionals who volunteer their time. Heritage Toronto Awards Every October, Heritage Toronto hosts an evening of awards. Different award categories recognize the best in new books, architecture and craftsmanship, public history, and community heritage volunteer efforts. ThHeritage Toronto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gothic Revival Architecture
Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly serious and learned admirers of the neo-Gothic styles sought to revive medieval Gothic architecture, intending to complement or even supersede the neoclassical styles prevalent at the time. Gothic Revival draws upon features of medieval examples, including decorative patterns, finials, lancet windows, and hood moulds. By the middle of the 19th century, Gothic had become the preeminent architectural style in the Western world, only to fall out of fashion in the 1880s and early 1890s. The Gothic Revival movement's roots are intertwined with philosophical movements associated with Catholicism and a re-awakening of high church or Anglo-Catholic belief concerned by the growth of religious nonconformism. Ultimately, the "Anglo-Catholicism" t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McLaughlin Motor Car Showroom
The McLaughlin Motor Car Showroom was built in 1925 and operated continuously as a car dealership until March 2007 when it was last occupied by Addison on Bay dealership (Cadillac) at 832 Bay Street, Toronto, Ontario. History The R.S. McLaughlin Building, built in the Gothic Revival style, was one of the first automobile dealerships in Toronto. It was constructed by General Motors Corporation of Canada, and was completed in May, 1925, seven years after General Motors had completed a merger with Oshawa's McLaughlin Motor Car Company. The building remained continuously occupied by car dealerships for eighty-two years. In 1955, it was opened as a Cadillac dealership by Harry Addison, and was known as Addison on Bay. It later became Canada's largest Cadillac dealership, and by the 1980s was operated by former Member of Parliament John Hollings Addison. Despite its long history, the dealership was closed as part of a reorganization and consolidation of the car dealership industry in C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel McLaughlin
Colonel Robert Samuel McLaughlin, (September 8, 1871 – January 6, 1972) was a Canadian businessman and philanthropist. He started the McLaughlin Motor Car Company in 1907, one of the first major automobile manufacturers in Canada, which evolved into General Motors of Canada. Life and career McLaughlin was born near Bowmanville in the hamlet of Enniskillen, Ontario, the son of Robert McLaughlin and Mary Smith."The McLaughlins - Sleighs, Buggys, Cars and Ginger Ale". ''The Clarington Promoter'', September 2016, pages 1 and 4. by Myno Van Dyke As a young man, he worked for a short time in a local hardware store, then in 1887 became an apprentice in the upholstery shop of his father's company, McLaughlin Carriage Works, which had opened in 1867 and at one time was the largest manufacturer of horse-drawn buggies and sleighs in the British Empire. In 1890, McLaughlin took a job at H. H. Babcock, an upholstery company in Watertown, New York. In 1892, McLaughlin and his brother G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murano, Toronto
Murano Condominiums is a two-tower residential high-rise condominium complex located alongside Bay Street, near the intersection of College Street in the Discovery District of downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Construction of the North tower (37 Grosvenor Street) was completed in the winter of 2008/9. The South tower (38 Grenville Street) was completed in 2010. The North and South towers are joined by a two-storey podium with planned retail and recreational facilities, including a roof-top garden and glass public art feature. Architecture Designed by Peter Clewes of architectsAlliance, Murano was marketed as a "fusion of art, architecture and glass". Toronto City Planning stated that the Murano, together with the neighboring Burano, has "significantly contributed to the improvement of the streetscape and the public realm". Comparable Toronto structures designed by Clewes include SP!RE and Casa Condominio Residenza Casa Condominio Residenza, or The CASA, is a high-rise condom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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