One Young (née Mayfair Hotel) | 5 fl | Complete

[panamaniac]

There are a number of modern buildings with fritted glass in Toronto (and at UofW, no?) but I think that the idea here, of projecting an image of the building that no longer exists, may be unique.

[tomh009]

I walked by the building yesterday and even with only a small section finished, it looks stunning.  What a brilliant idea!  Are there other examples of buildings in nearby cities where  brick patterned glass had been used?

I believe this type of fritted glass design is really quite unusual. Here is the only other example I could find of a similar usage:
https://www.dezeen.com/2013/01/17/glass-farm-by-mvrdv/

[Momo26]

That's neat ^ !

[dtkvictim]

That Dutch building is certainly interesting, but I'm not sure I'd say it looks good. Worse than either building an outright modern building or rebuilding it in the original style, IMO. The Mayfair's use of fritted glass seems much more tasteful so far.

[tomh009]

A view of the fritted glass in early-evening light.

   

[tomh009]

It's not done yet, but it looks like it's going to be nostalgic and contemporary at the same time.  Not an easy trick to pull off.  The black band between the second and third floor glass seems unfortunate, or perhaps it too will be covered in the fritted glass?

Based on the renderings and the mullions I think that there will be glass spandrel panels added to fill the section between floors. The glass looks great in person.

You want spandrel! We have spandrel (well, at least one).

   

[Construction Insider]

1st tenant being announced in July. Their construction tender package will be issued around same time.

Many more spandrel sections up today. Historically accurate arched lintels w/ keystones.

Exciting design upgrades for the finished common areas within are in design.

[Spokes]

Anyone have any tenant predictions?

[taylortbb]

Anyone have any tenant predictions?

Originally I was going to guess Faire would take the whole building, as they'd be outgrowing their space at the former Budd building right about now and they're right across the street from each other. But Faire actually took a large part (maybe most) of the former Manulife King Centre, as they've been growing really fast.

It's not that big of a building, so I can see some of the smaller but growing startups taking a floor or two.

[tomh009]

Many more spandrel sections up today.  Historically accurate arched lintels w/ keystones.

Exciting design upgrades for the finished common areas within are in design.

It does look good.

   

[Lens]

Anyone have any tenant predictions?

Ground floor will house a bank. Yawn.

[mastermind]

Anyone have any tenant predictions?

Ground floor will house a bank. Yawn.

Bummer.  I read once that in some places there's a bylaw that banks can only have 20' frontages, then the bulk of their space wraps in behind the other shops in that stretch.  I think it might have been a Jeff Speck book.  Too bad we don't have that rule here.

[panamaniac]

A bank is a bummer?  Any commercial frontage that isn't another coffee shop, lunch-dependent restaurant, or storefront converted to high tech office is fine by me.  Add a bank here to the Libro and spa (and, arguably AOK) across the street and I'd say that segment of King St is seeing more progress that we've seen in DTK in years.

[TMKM94]

Could it Be BMO relocating from King and Queen?

[panamaniac]

Could it Be BMO relocating from King and Queen?

I wondered about that.  Things have been quiet re themuseum, but in theory they need to move to a new locaton.

As an aside, the day that UGLY BMO building comes down will be a happy one for DTK.  When I think of the building it replaced ...