Here’s a little behind-the-scenes for you today as a way of introduction to this article. You may have noticed that yesterday we picked The New Residences of Yorkville Plaza, the redevelopment of the current Four Seasons Hotel after it decamps down the block to Bay Street in 2012, as our dataBase project of the day. It’s still the project of the day now in fact, until our next one is revealed later this afternoon. Today though, we find we need to be playing up the project again, as developer Camrost-Felcorp just got in touch with us to tell us ‘we’ve got a new plan for the retail at the base of the building, here’s a new rendering to update you’. The new plan, we have to say, is a huge improvement on the original, and it turns what was an awkward, tacked-on updating of a 1971 brutalist local landmark… into a bold and energized – yet respectful – reimagining of the building’s existing expression. We are getting something good here!
New retail podium plan for The New Residences of Yorkville Plaza, by WZMH Architects for Camrost-Felcorp
Globe and Mail Architourist Dave Leblanc
William MacTaggart, investment adviser at Macquarie Private Wealth, thanked guests.
