This is the year we should re-write the mid-rise building design guidelines and cut some corners - literally. realestate realestatenews Toronto architecture design
It’s been over a decade since the City published the Mid-Rise Building Design Guidelines, and after a few years of professional pushback by the industry, we noticed a first bud of change: Toronto City Council approved the Official Plan Amendment for the Danforth Avenue, Site and Area Specific Area Policy No. 772 , on April 6, 2022 .
The newly approved policy is indicative of the City’s willingness to address the shortcomings of the Avenue and Mid-Rise Guidelines throughout the city. A minimum 1.5-m step-back at a maximum height of 14 m and an additional 3 m step-back at a maximum height of 17 m from the rear building face .Angular planes had great intentions: they provided a clear tool for City planning to achieve ‘transition’, the problem is that they achieved it too literally and created angular-shaped buildings.
Initially introduced into the fabric of the city back in 2010, the guidelines sought to achieve “transition” and “articulation” and using angular planes seemed to achieve both: it achieves transition because it creates an imaginary diagonal line between the “sacred” low-rise neighbourhoods and higher density nodes and “articulation” because it prevented the building from just extruding up for 10 storeys and that is exactly what made them so expensive to build, and less affordable to the end...
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