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Toy Factory Lofts

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DEVELOPER
The Toy Factory of Hanna Developments Inc.

ARCHITECT
Quadrangle Architects Limited

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
NAK Design Group

GENERAL CONTRACTOR

ABOUT THE PROJECT

With a creative blend of renovation, reconstruction and expansion, the Toy Factory is a unique approach to the rehabilitation of the former Irwin Toy manufacturing facility in the Liberty Village district west of Toronto’s downtown core. The development, which combines live/work units with a commercial office component, retains a well-known landmark structure in an area of the city undergoing dramatic revitalization. The project was named the 2005 Condominium Project of the Year by the Greater Toronto Home Builders’ Association and was honoured in 2009 with a Toronto Urban Design Award for Mid-Rise Private Building in Con- text.

Comments

The balconies look like they were glued on the building. Never liked this look, make it look so cheap. Awful.

A project with so much potential and it has its high points but falls flat.

Based on that fence I guess I'll make a mental note to avoid NAK Design Group as a landscape architect in the future.

I thought the exact same thing.

love the building. hate the ample parking, it really detracts from the urbane feel of this building.

Horrible, horrible, horrible Home Depot fence.
Who the hell designed that?
Whoever you are, you have zero imagination.
Why didn't you do a more private version of the fencing from the entranceway?

The windows are kind of nice.

Overall, nothing amazing, but a thousand times better than most of the nominees.

The new is no match for the old here.

What's with the cheap DIY fences? Where else did they cut corners?

Yawn. Boring. That's the Quadrangle way. All those small windows indicate that this project was done on the cheap: the price of glass increases exponentially with size (I say exponentially literally, not as an idiom), so you can save a ton of money by breaking a large window up into many small panes. But it sure looks sloppy.

Nice renovation. Feels great.. looks great. Nice addition to the family... well except the stepsisters and cousins in the eastern part of Liberty Village... yuck

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