Three 80 Floor Towers Proposed on King West
David Mirvish has been working with certain members of council regarding a mega project which will be designed by Frank Gehry. The towers will sit atop new public spaces for Museums and Galleries. The old(ish) Princess of Wales Theatre will likely be demolished even though it is only 19 years old. The other heritage buildings will also face a similar fate. Although over at urbantoronto.ca there is hope that some of the heritage buildings are preserved in some nature.
David Mirvish believes these buildings will assert to the new global level on which Toronto now resides, along with London, New York and Tokyo as a true global and cultural centre. These buildings will be the legacy of Toronto's 50 years plus of super extraordinary economic growth. Yes the scale of the project is impressive and on the scale of the World Trade Center in New York or the Burj Dubai now Burj Khalifa in UAE, it will take over 10 years for the project to be completed attesting to the sher massive scale of the development.
Toronto is now taking its place on the global cultural stage and we await new news on the project.
This is very exciting for a skyscraper geek.
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