The New Toronto Metropolis

[jabman]

I cant wait til next spring when the new METROPOLIS at Dundas Square will be complete people are saying that dundas square will be like the Times Square of Toronto. The love it there the cause you are surrounded by so many light and huge billboards it just feels cool when your standing in the middle there.

http://www.ohmpage.ca/wp-content/uploads/2006/02/Metropolis.jpg

Go to www.metropolis.ca (http://www.metropolis.ca) for a better view.

[ryeler]

Looks great

[Jake]

I don't like it all that much. It's too flashy and IMHO Times Square is not really a great example of anything. Times Sq just reminds me of the cocaine and porn NY.

Besides, how much attention will those adverts really get? The big screen is nice but beyond that I don't like it a whole lot.

The Eaton Center is 100 times better.

[OmegaNYC]

Well, I like it. It's unique, eventhough it will become the "TSQ of the North". Keep it up Toronto!

[ld876]

I don't like it all that much. It's too flashy and IMHO Times Square is not really a great example of anything. Times Sq just reminds me of the cocaine and porn NY.



I wasn't even in NYC at the time, but i liked the stories of the new york times reporters having to run from port authority to the original NYTimes building...otherwise they'd get mugged, shot, etc etc etc. Gave me a chuckle. Seedy NY was the best.

[OmegaNYC]

Yeah, I remember watching something on PBS I think, and some NY Times reporters talked about how some rookies couldn't stomach the walk from the Port Authority to the NY Times building. NYC in the 70s-early 90s did kick butt:p

[Jake]

oh yeah the good old "eat or be eaten" days!

I much preferred downtown those days, Midtown was just freaks and pornography.

[canguy23m]

By itself it looks kind of tacky, it's too flashy and there's nothing really unique about it. Depends what the rest of the area around it looks like.

[antinimby]

From ssp (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=127976):

1 Bloor East (80 stories)

http://img400.imageshack.us/img400/5159/1blooreastnewmar07dn6.jpg

http://img400.imageshack.us/img400/4868/1bloor2newmar07sk8.jpg

Bazis International unveils plans for Canada's most celebrated corner

TORONTO, March 22 /CNW/ - Bazis International of Toronto, Ont., willunveil its plans to redevelop Canada's most important corner at a newsconference Thursday, April 5, 2007. Bazis International has acquired a one-acre property on the southeastcorner of Yonge and Bloor Streets in the heart of Toronto. It will create aninnovative mixed use development featuring a nearly 80 storey tower with afour storey double-height podium at the base making it Toronto's tallestresidential/commercial building. Michael Gold together with celebrated Toronto architect, Roy Varacalli,both of Bazis, will offer details and be available for interviews as will CityCouncillor Kyle Rae. The news conference will be held in the Panorama Room on the top of thenearby ManuLife Centre, a vantage point that offers a bird's eye view not onlyof the 1 Bloor site but also of Bazis' first Toronto project, the Crystal Blucondominium, soon to start construction on Balmuto Street just south of Bloor.

[MidtownGuy]

Of all those new buildings that went up in Times Square recently, you'd think at least one of them would have ended up curvy and elegant like this (not to mention one at least 80 floors). Nope, we got box after box, with a few skewed angles here and there and nobody poking too much above each other.

Cheers, Toronto.

[pianoman11686]

It's funny, but when you go to the thread on SSP, many of the forumers describe the tower as reminiscent of Times Square. Go figure. And in reading the news articles, you find that the project has strong support from the local council members and city government. They realize the prominence of the site, and what do they do? They encourage a taller, bigger development. Refreshing.

In any case, it seems the design has been updated:

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/390/newoneblooreastgh2.jpg

http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/1751/newoneblooreastpodiumql4.jpg

[St. Even]

I hope this will clarify some of the confusion over Toronto Life Square (which is still inching along.)

That tower rendering is for 1 Bloor St. E at the corner of Yonge St.
Toronto Life Square is at the corner of Yonge St. and Dundas, almost 2 km away, so this tower will not be overlooking the square -- it's actually three subway stops away.

[Ed007Toronto]

This is Metropolis (Toronto Life Square) a few weeks back under construction.

http://chartattack.com/ed/Metropolis-Jan19,08(5).jpg