03-12-2025, 01:19 PM
(03-12-2025, 11:14 AM)ac3r Wrote: I'm going by memory here but I recall that render was just to represent potential at the location, not an actual proposal. It has indeed been up for sale for a while. As ZEBuilder states it's not a great design or anything.
To elaborate, a lot of the time when someone is hired to produce a very conceptual render, they may not be going off actual plans they've been provided. Instead, a lot of the time they just throw together something that "looks" like a building, but may not make actual sense or just not have much thought into the design. Sometimes the people doing the work may not have any architectural background either, but they are really good in something like V-Ray or Blender. It's definitely a weird looking structure, but I suspect that's because it was made just for sales promotion.
Either way, that particular company offers a good look at project ideas around the region! You can see a new one they have posted for 84 Frederick Street, the site of the old YMCA women's shelter downtown next to Duke Tower. I'm not sure if that property has been sold yet but you can see they have a rendering for a tower there that's 28 floors. ZEBuilder may know more about this as they seem to have their finger on the pulse of the planning side of things more than I do haha. It could also just be a mock rendering to facilitate a property sale, or potentially a proposed project.
Like ac3r points out many of those renders are marketing material, there are some which have more worth than others on there, but I will leave it at that. There are a handful of projects as well which haven't had renders publicly yet so there are some nice looking concepts to come (unless they get VEd, which is just as much of an issue in the GTA). I haven't heard anything directly about that Park St property, it is off the market now so someone may have picked it up, but that rendering from what I recall is marketing material.
The rendering of the 84 Frederick property is also purely marketing/Growing Together related. The Region ended up purchasing that property, so don't expect that rendered tower to actually be built.