Burano (building)

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Burano
North facade of the Burano, 2017 05 12 -c (34489016801).jpg
The north facade of the Burano building has a three storey lobby, with a large mural on the original structure's wall. Note how the tower's footprint is a rhombus, its corners are not right angles. [1]
General information
Type Residential
Location832 Bay Street
Toronto, Ontario
Coordinates 43°39′42″N79°23′11″W / 43.66167°N 79.38639°W / 43.66167; -79.38639 Coordinates: 43°39′42″N79°23′11″W / 43.66167°N 79.38639°W / 43.66167; -79.38639
CompletedJuly 2012
Height
Roof163 m (535 ft) [2]
Technical details
Floor count50 [2]
Floor area38,803 m2 (417,670 sq ft) [3]
Design and construction
Architect Peter Clewes of architectsAlliance
Developer Lanterra Developments

Burano is a 50 storey, 163 metre tall residential high-rise condominium complex on Bay Street between Grenville St. and Grosvenor St. in the Discovery District of Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [4] [1] [5] The redevelopment of the site was part of a period of urban renewal of the Toronto financial district in the early 21st century. [6] [7] Toronto City Planning stated that the Burano has "significantly contributed to the improvement of the streetscape and the public realm." [8]

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History

Burano was financed by Lanterra Developments. [9] It was designed by Peter Clewes of architectsAlliance, [10] and is located across the street from Murano, [1] another one of his Toronto projects. [11] [12] It is named for an island in Italy. [13]

Peter Clewes Canadian architect

Peter Clewes is a Canadian architect and the principal of the Toronto-based firm architectsAlliance. He has been one of the leading architects in the condo boom that has reshaped Toronto in the first decade of the 21st century. His projects include SP!RE, Casa Condominio Residenza, Murano, Burano, X Condominium, 20 Niagara, Ideal Lofts, and MoZo. He most often works for Howard Cohen of Context Developments.

architectsAlliance

architectsAlliance is a Toronto-based architectural firm headed by architect Peter Clewes. It was formed in 1999 with the merger of Wallman Clewes Bergman and Van Nostrand DiCastri Architects.

Murano, Toronto

Murano Condominiums, is a two-tower residential high-rise condominium complex located alongside Bay Street, near the intersection of College Street in the Discovery District of downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Construction of the North tower was completed in the winter of 2008/9. The South tower was completed in 2010. The North and South towers are joined by a two-storey podium with planned retail and recreational facilities, including a roof-top garden and glass public art feature.

The Burano was designed to be built within the footprint of a heritage structure: a 1925 auto dealership [1] [14] which had been designated a heritage structure in 1999. [5] By 2010, the foundations were complete and the building was under construction. [15]

Historic site official location where pieces of political, military or social history have been preserved

Historic site or Heritage site is an official location where pieces of political, military, cultural, or social history have been preserved due to their cultural heritage value. Historic sites are usually protected by law, and many have been recognized with the official national historic site status. A historic site may be any building, landscape, site or structure that is of local, regional, or national significance.

As well as architectural elements from the former building, public art was also incorporated into the Burano, including a large abstract fresco created by Italian artist Sandro Martini installed in the building's atrium, on the side of the heritage building. [16] [4] [17] [18]

McLaughlin Motor Car Showroom

Construction of the Burano preserved the facade of the former Samuel McLaughlin's McLaughlin Motor Car Showroom, a two-storey heritage building designated in 1999 under the Ontario Heritage Act. [1] Built in 1925 as the R.S. McLaughlin Building, the Gothic Revival building was one of the first automobile dealerships in Toronto, and remained continuously occupied by car dealerships for eighty-two years. [5] Despite its long history, that use ended as part of a reorganization and consolidation of the car dealership industry in Canada. [19]

Samuel McLaughlin businessman, philanthropist

Colonel Robert Samuel McLaughlin, was a Canadian businessman and philanthropist. He started the McLaughlin Motor Car Company in 1907, one of the first major automobile manufacturers in Canada, which evolved into General Motors of Canada.

McLaughlin Motor Car Showroom

The McLaughlin Motor Car Showroom was built in 1925 and operated continuously as a car dealership until March 2007 when it was last occupied by Addison on Bay dealership (Cadillac) at 832 Bay Street, Toronto, Ontario.

Gothic Revival architecture Architectural movement

Gothic Revival is an architectural movement popular in the Western world that began in the late 1740s in England. Its momentum grew in the early 19th century, when increasingly serious and learned admirers of neo-Gothic styles sought to revive medieval Gothic architecture, in contrast to the neoclassical styles prevalent at the time. Gothic Revival draws features from the original Gothic style, including decorative patterns, finials, lancet windows, hood moulds and label stops.

Due to the soft soil at the site, and to facilitate excavation, the historic facade was dismantled and stored off-site during construction of the seven-floor underground garage. After the garage and foundation appropriate for the fifty floors above ground were completed, the facade was reconstructed, incorporating the important heritage components. [20]

The historic building is marked with a plaque, placed in 2013 by Heritage Toronto. [21]

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  11. ↑ "Catalogue". architectsalliance.com. architectsAlliance. Retrieved 11 May 2017.
  12. ↑ UrbanRealtyToronto Archived December 6, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
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  14. ↑ "Facadism: the good, the bad and the ugly". NOW Toronto. by Richard Longley, May 18, 2016
  15. ↑ "It took 100 years, but a tower begins to rise". National Post, Apr 23, 2010 . Adam McDowell.
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