Danish architectural firm COBE will be leaving their mark on a new mixed use development in Toronto. A client group consisting of Dream Unlimited, Kilmer Van Nostrand Co. Limited and Tricon Capital Group has commissioned COBE to develop a large scale mixed-use residential development in Toronto?s downtown east in collaboration with Toronto-based firm architectsAlliance. The project’s site is just south of the existing Canary District.
Consisting of three buildings, two of which COBE has designed, the project contains 761 market rental apartment units, including 30 percent affordable rental units which are indistinguishable in their design.
“We want to create attractive homes that appeal to many different types of people. We have been working alongside the client team to develop a concept of radical mixed use that provides all residents with a generous apartment, flooded with light through floor-to-ceiling windows, and access to attractive amenity spaces,? says Dan Stubbergaard, architect and founder of COBE. The new community is designed to achieve LEED Gold certification for sustainability where its future residents can live, work, play, shop locally, support local businesses and raise families. In addition, the development has the ability for its future residents to leverage many strong neighbourhood amenities in both the Canary and Distillery Districts, notably the 82,000 square foot Cooper Koo YMCA and 18-acre Corktown Common park.
The site at the West Don L...