I drove by Bay & Dundas and noticed that the architectural rendering is now posted at the Ryerson Business School construction site. That parking garage is slowly but surely coming down...does anyone have a pic of the rendering?

I've seen it posted... can't remember if it was here or on UrbanToronto though it wouldn't surprise me if it was both.

On a side note, there's an article in one of Ryerson's school papers, the Eyeopener, regarding the difficulty in trying to get a corporate sponsor for the building's naming rights. They're hoping for $15M although I don't think they'll get that much, especially once the building starts construction.

I found a rendering for this project, although I'm not exactly sure that this is the same one posted at the actual construction site.
Judging by this picture, it looks as though the Dundas St. "Wall" will finally be broken up a bit...thanks Ryerson + Cadillac Fairview! :)http://www.q2a.net/news/letter/oct2004/bay&dundas.jpg

Hopefully Rye's biz students can draw new types of biz students. Not just complainers and whiners.

The rendering agrigentum posted is the same one displayed at the site.

Does anyone know what's going on with the JJ Mugs site? Did they close because they didn't want to be open next to construction for 2 years? Or is there other plans for their space?

According to Ryerson's website 210,000 sqft. of this building will be devoted to the "business school" but the project has a total square footage of 600, 000 sqft. I understand the building will also have retail and parking components to it. I'm just wondering if anybody knows how the remaining 390,000 sqft. will be divvied up, and doled out, to the retail and parking components of this building?

I'm assuming the ground floor with have retail.

If the TEC expansion with H&M is any indication of this project - I'm excited to have Cadilac Fairview involved.

If there is any parking above grade, I really hope they make an attempt to hide it. In the lower Western end of the rendering there isn't much detail.

What's with the boring, boring new buildings going up? Doesn't anyone realize that the steel/glass look is not unique? I think that it was better as a park. Better yet, a 40+ floor office building incorporating a business school would be ideal; it would balance out the skyline, extend the financial district somewhat, make Dundas Square more exciting, and breath new life into a stale commercial real estate environment. It's a shame that so many companies are locating in the 905. We could have had our own piece of Manhattan. As a potential Ryerson student, I wouldn't be terribly impressed by the facility. It reminds me of that gawd-awful graduate student's centre at UofT.

I was starting to wonder why anybody would think this new building was boring (double boring apparantly). The rendering is not detailed enough to really get a feel really.

Then I read this...."It reminds me of that gawd-awful graduate student's centre at UofT"

Then I wasn't that worried...If you are talking about Graduate House by Morphosis, then I would simply question your taste in architecture...it is a brilliant example of deconstructivist architecture.

You complain about a lack of "unique" architecture, and in the same breath you knock it.

Make up your mind...and hopefully you are not enrolled in any design or architecture classes. LOL!!






KGB