By ChangingCity
This project started out as something of a mystery in June of 2013 – an office building on a site on the corner of West Pender and Seymour Street. Right now there are two older 2-storey buildings, one is a sushi restaurant and the other (dating from 1905) currently vacant.
The mystery was that as far as we knew there wasn’t either a rezoning or development application submitted, although the building was being marketed. The design by Musson Cattell Mackey initially was for a 9-storey building with 77,000 sq ft of space (right).
Now there’s a development application, it’s a 10 storey building, and the design has evolved into something that looks really much more interesting. Our image shows the view down Seymour, looking north. There are angled glazed sections in the Seymour facade that don’t show up well from this angle, but which add an extra level of variation on what is really a very efficient block floorplate.
The Urban Design panel are due to see it in April 2014, and given a positive response it’s scheduled for the Development Permit Board in June.
Source: Changing City
Taken March 30, 2014 by Alex Wren