TORONTO | 955 Bay Street - The Britt | 41 fl | Pro

cruzin4u · December 8th, 2012, 09:24 PM

Address: 955 Bay Street
Developer: Lanterra Developments
Architect: Page+Steele / IBI Group Architects

Retrofitting of existing Sutton Place Hotel (currently 31 stories) into condos and adding an additional 10 stories to the structure for a total of 41 stories.

Sutton Place Hotel in it's current form:

Podium from the past:

The future of Sutton Place (no longer a hotel):

Podium:

koolio · December 8th, 2012, 10:24 PM

This is terrible. I really hope this does not go through as planned. They will completely butcher the existing structure.

ThatOneGuy · December 8th, 2012, 10:28 PM

The brick wall on the current structure is ugly, but now they plan to make it just another boring green-glass condo with balconies, like 90% of all buildings there.

Eric Offereins · December 9th, 2012, 08:13 PM

to me, it looks like an improvement.

EastOfTheCumberland · December 12th, 2012, 09:38 PM

There is a certain kind of quite beauty and character in those older brutalist modernism towers built in the 1960's and 1970's.

December 8th, 2012, 09:24 PM	#1
cruzin4u Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Toronto, ON Posts: 376 Likes (Received): 10	TORONTO \| 955 Bay Street - The Britt \| 41 fl \| Pro Address: 955 Bay Street Developer: Lanterra Developments Architect: Page+Steele / IBI Group Architects Retrofitting of existing Sutton Place Hotel (currently 31 stories) into condos and adding an additional 10 stories to the structure for a total of 41 stories. Sutton Place Hotel in it's current form: Podium from the past: The future of Sutton Place (no longer a hotel): Podium:

December 8th, 2012, 10:24 PM	#2
koolio Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 2,767 Likes (Received): 259	This is terrible. I really hope this does not go through as planned. They will completely butcher the existing structure. __________________ Victoria, Canada

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December 8th, 2012, 10:28 PM	#3
ThatOneGuy NOT BANNNED Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Constanța Posts: 7,120 Likes (Received): 808	The brick wall on the current structure is ugly, but now they plan to make it just another boring green-glass condo with balconies, like 90% of all buildings there.

December 9th, 2012, 08:13 PM	#4
Eric Offereins The only way is up Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Rotterdam Posts: 35,643 Likes (Received): 654	to me, it looks like an improvement.

December 12th, 2012, 09:38 PM	#5
EastOfTheCumberland Nashville Urbanite Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: Nashville, but from ATL Posts: 39 Likes (Received): 2	There is a certain kind of quite beauty and character in those older brutalist modernism towers built in the 1960's and 1970's.