A website visit to the neighborhood and model home of One Park Place Condos South Tower by Daniels.

The first stage of One Park Place, The Daniels Company’s fourth market condo in Regent Park, showcases a 25-storey Hariri Pontarini-designed tower rising from a podium which incorporates retail, workplace and domestic uses atop two levels of underground parking. We came by the white aluminum, glass, and brick-clad development at the southwest edge of Dundas St. East and the newly minted Regent Park Boulevard earlier this week to have a look at the project and its current construction progress.

New building continues to change Regent Park. The mix consists of reconnected streets, an injection of market condominiums, modern-day TCHC lodgings, shimmering new and refurbished neighborhood arts, entertainment, and instructional facilities. Their look over the last few years means that the location’s battered reputation is quick becoming a extinction.

The first stage of One Park Place, The Daniels Corporation’s fourth market condo in Regent Park, features a 25-storey Hariri Pontarini-designed tower rising from a podium which combines retail, workplace and residential uses atop two levels of underground parking. We came by the white aluminum, glass, and brick-clad development at the southwest edge of Dundas St. East and the newly minted Regent Park Boulevard earlier today to have a look at the project and its recent construction progress.

At ground level, we heed the red brick-finished podium which pays homage to the likewise clad Peter Dickinson-designed apartment blocks that when occupied the website. The staying Dickinson structures behind us will quickly boil down too: retrofitting them to satisfy current Ontario Building Code standards and today’s expectations has been deemed alongside impossible.

One Park Place’s most talked-about feature is the cladding of its tower, which avoids the floor-to-celing wall-to-wall windows which we see on many new Toronto condos, for a cladding system of which only 45 % of the structure’s exterior is vision glass. Here the bulk of the cladding is insulated wall, provided on the outside as white back-painted glass spandrel panels framed by aluminum mullions, the vertical among which extend 5 inches from the wall. The mullions offer depth and definition to the outside, while the increased wall area creates a more energy efficient building.

The within of the systems are still full of light, while giving residents the a lot even more wall area to hang art on. This unit stays unfinished obviously, with much still to be done consisting of finishing the ceiling.

Another significant attribute of One Park Place is its huge podium, consisting of the expansive roof yard and deck areas. With just the first stage of the project built so far, we can see that the podium feature areas are going to be very spacious.

One floor above, One Park Place will offer locals gardening plots. Daniels has seen demand for these boost in the their latest projects, so One Park Place will have the most garden plots in a Daniels task yet. They will permit building locals to expand their own fresh produce of course, an activity typically reserved for owners of single family homes with yards.

Our check out needed to include the upper floors normally. The following two images reveal future unit areas on the 24th floor, and provide you an concept of the things that the back of the insulated wall sections appear like prior to the drywall goes up.

Arriving at the roofing, we are greeted by a reflective metal-clad mechanical box, as well as a last possibility opportunity to take in the wide-open rooftop views prior to the cladding system is set up on the forecasting fins; this uppermost level will be surrounded by the same vision glass/spandrel glass/aluminum mullion mix as the remainder of the tower.

To the north, the view is controlled by the 1947-built John E. Hoare Jr.-designed low-rise apartments of Regent Park North, quickly to be redeveloped in subsequent stages of the Regent Park Revitalization Plan.

At the bottom of the picture below, we can see the recently finished Regent Park Aquatic Centre, as well as the site of the future 6-acre community park to its left. The aquatic center’s brown roofing will soon be green, having actually been recently planted.

Aiming to the northwest, we can see the under-construction 78-storey Aura controling the skyline of the Yonge and College area, with the recently finished Sick Children Research Tower visible to the far left.

Though the views in all directions were lovely to state the least, the view looking southwest to the downtown core would most accurately be explained with one word-- iconic. The hazy atmospheric conditions that day combined with the conical tapered skyline of our downtown core, stimulates an image much like that of a far-off mountain looming over a town.

Looking down we see the recently reopened play field at Nelson Mandela Park Public College in use for a game. The location simply south of the playing field and adjacent to the college will soon be the new house of the Regent Park Community Centre.

Looking directly down to the south we get a take a look at the pit where the second phase of One Park Place is now under building.

The 2nd phase will feature a 30-storey south tower, taller than but matching the design of the north tower, while the development’s podium will be extended similarly. While phase 2 is constructed, the cinder block walls that briefly seal the first phase, noticeable in the image below, will boil down to join the whole development into one.

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