The 7.7-acre site formerly housed The Globe and Mail?s facility, and is located in the midst of the densifying King West area. To the south, ?it adjoins the future Rail Deck District, a five-tower complex that is being planned to cantilever over the VIA and GO train corridor.
PROJECT The Well, Toronto, Ontario
ARCHITECTS Hariri Pontarini Architects (Masterplan and Office), Adamson Associates Architects (Executive Architect), BDP (Retail, Canopy, Landscape Architect), CCxA Architectes Paysagistes (Landscape Architect?Masterplan and Public Realm), Giannone Petricone Associates (Wellington Market), Wallman Architects (Residential Midrises), architects?Alliance (Residential Highrises), Urban Strategies (Urban Design and Planning)
PHOTOS RioCan, unless otherwise noted TEXT John Lorinc
The elevating history of Toronto?s upward trajectory is a story that can be told in chapters, beginning with suburban slab apartments and downtown bank towers (1960s-1980s), moving through the era of arterial point tower clusters (on Bay, the Kings, North York City Centre, downtown Yonge, Jarvis) and on to massive industrial conversions (Liberty Village, the railway lands). Half a century after David Crombie imposed his infamous 45-foot freeze, height passes muster almost anywhere, and, despite policy efforts to stoke low- and midrise residential, there?s little to indicate that Toronto?s verticality will subside anytime soon.
What is quite new in the narrative of the city?s intensification is the ...