The Crossways (Toronto)

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The Crossways
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The twin 29-storey apartment towers seen from the north
The Crossways (Toronto)
General information
StatusCompleted
Location2340 Dundas Street West
Toronto, Ontario
OwnerCreccal Investments Ltd.
Design and construction
Architect(s) Webb Zerafa Menkès Housden Partnership
DeveloperConsolidated Building Corporation

The Crossways is a mixed-use residential/commercial complex in the west end of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located at the intersection of Bloor Street West and Dundas Street West. It stretches across most of a city block.

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History

In 1971, developer Consolidated Building Corporation agreed to buy the four-acre site, home to a bread factory, from Corporate Foods (now Canada Bread). [1]

Architecture

The complex consists of twin 29-storey (92 m) [2] triangular brick towers, with a broad, terraced podium at their bases. One level of the podium contains an indoor mall. The Crossways was designed in the Brutalist style [3] by architects Webb Zerafa Menkès Housden Partnership [4] and built by Consolidated Building Corporation. [3] It was completed in 1974 as a 111,480-square-metre (1.2 million square feet) mixed-use project. The mall's interior was a cohesive series of spaces characterized by strong 1970s design features such as walls clad in brick from floor to ceiling, brown brick floor tiles, lacquered and evenly spaced wood slat ceilings, and massive globe-light lanterns mounted onto the walls. The retail mall section was renovated in 2012 and 2013, and it no longer exhibits the original 1970s design features.

The project won a 1977 award in residential building design from the Canadian Housing Design Council, a body funded by the Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation. [5]

A 3,900-square-metre (42,000 square feet) addition, designed by architect Chris A. Montgomery, added two floors of commercial office space to the roof of the existing complex and connected to the existing retail mall. [6]

The enclosed 7,900 square metre (85,000 square foot) mall at the base of the twin apartment towers has more than 40 stores and services, composed of small independent businesses and services. For many years, until the late 1990s, the mall had a regular-size grocery store on its lower level, initially a Food City and subsequently an IGA store. In addition, there used to be a Boots Drug Store in the mall.

Ownership

The complex is owned by Creccal Investments Ltd. [7]

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References

  1. "Cons Building plans to buy Bloor St. site". Toronto Star. 23 November 1971. p. 29.
  2. T.O. Built
  3. 1 2 Emporis.com [usurped]
  4. "Webb Zerafa Menkès Housden Partnership" The Canadian Encyclopedia
  5. Awards for Residential Design 1976-1977. Ottawa: Canadian Housing Design Council. 1978. p. 71.
  6. Chris A. Montgomery Architect website
  7. Ghosh, Ilina (15 June 2018). "Tenants opposing rent increase accuse building staff of harassment, obstruction". CBC News.

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