Sneak preview of Moshe Safdie’s forthcoming Parkside condo tower on the waterfront
Sneak preview of Moshe Safdie’s forthcoming Parkside condo tower on the waterfront
By Matthew Hague | March 18, 2011
By Matthew Hague | 03/18/2011
The Parkside Project is coming to the shores of Lake Ontario (Image: Safdie Architects)
Moshe Safdie is one of Canada’s greatest architects. At 24, he designed the iconic Habitat ’67 in Montreal as his master’s thesis at McGill. He then went onto build, among other things, the National Gallery in Ottawa, the Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum in Israel and this crazy hotel in Singapore. So, a few years ago when we heard he was working on a residential project in Toronto , we were excited—that is, until we saw it and thought it looked like a postmodern sand sculpture of a camel. To our great relief, an updated design has recently been revealed (thanks to UrbanToronto for posting it), reminding us that interesting condos don’t just get built in Mississauga . Particularly eye-catching on the new Safdie design are balconies that daringly cantilever out from the façade and the multiple terraced green spaces. Plus, the café-restaurant-retail strip facing Sherbourne Common looks so pleasant, it’s hard to believe that this will actually be a part of Toronto’s waterfront.
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Balconies
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View of arcade
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Night view from south
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View from north
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View through “mid-block connector”
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Aerial View with Sherbourne Common
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City view of Parkside Tower
• Great Gulf bringing Moshe Safdie to Toronto with Parkside Condos by the Harbour [Urban Toronto]
• Parkside Project [Moshe Safdie Architects]
The hyperlink to the “crazy hotel in Singapore” directs readers to this:
http://www.torontolife.com/daily/wine-blog/2007/01/08/value-hunting-under-15/
I’m assuming that’s unintended!
wow! so spacious–2 people can stand on the balcony OR you can put a plant out there and admire it from inside. I love options!!!
Can somebody explain where Safdie’s brain went after habitat was finished, because this is really not fooling anyone…
This is pretty unspectacular.