Museum House Edit Building

Identification

Approximate Address - 206 Bloor Street West [map]

City - Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Region - Greater Golden Horseshoe

Nearby Buildings - 208 Bloor Street West, Intercontinental Hotel, 180 Bloor Street West, Royal Ontario Museum, One Bedford, Park Hyatt North, Park Hyatt South, Prince Arthur Towers, 151 Bloor Street West, U of T - 246 Bloor

Technical

Type - High-Rise

Designation - Commercial, Condominium

Status - Proposed

Height - 71m233feet

Floors - 19

Units - 24 suites

Suites - From 185m²2000feet² to 371m²4000feet²

Total Floorspace - 7924m²85293feet²

Residential - 7680m²82667feet²

Commercial - 244m²2626feet²

Companies

Architect - Page & Steele Architects Inc.

Developer - Sheldon Esbin

Building Record History

2007-03-21 - Proposed

Reference Material

Contributors: Jonathan Martins, Rod Taylor

• Moorhouse, Ellen. (2007, 17 March). "Building a fine `foil' on Bloor". Toronto Star.

  Real estate investor and financier Sheldon Esbin,and his wife Carol are the perfect customers for Toronto's growing number of upscale condominium projects.

  They're building their own: MuseumHouse at 206 Bloor St. W.

  His next step: call his friend Sol Wassermuhl, who just happens to head Page + Steele Architects. "I told him, `It's a tight site, but we want to put a building on it and move in there,'" Esbin recounts. "I always knew it had great views, especially looking south, which will probably never change."

  MuseumHouse will, of course, be intimate. But Esbin has ended up with a decidedly modern structure, defined by a limestone base, and glass and metal above. Balconies with glass railings topped with custom stainless steel planters create strong horizontal lines. Prices start at around $800 a square foot, and the lowest-priced unit, at 1,942 square feet starts at $1.55 million.

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• Greer, Shelly Sanders. (2007, 13 January). "Sky `mansions' coming for cultural area". Toronto Star.

  Located in Toronto's cultural heart, Museum House will offer 24 "mansions in the sky'' for people passionate about the arts.

  Surrounded by the modernized Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), the Royal Conservatory of Music, Ceramics Museum, Philosopher's Walk, Queen's Park and Yorkville, Museum House's name and concept evolved from its distinguished location at 206 Bloor St. W.

  Sol Wassermuhl, principal partner and president of Page + Steele Architects, worked closely with the developer – Yorkville Corp. – and the design firm of Powell and Bonnell to create Museum House.

  The 24 suites range from 2,000 to 4,000 square feet, priced from $1.5 to over $8 million. The half-floor suites are two-bedroom-plus-den plans, while the full-floor suites have three bedrooms. All of the units will have built-in safes and the master suites will have walls finished in stone, heated floors, and free-standing oval tubs.

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• "Sales Site". Accessed 30 Dec 06.

• "Final Report" [933.84kB]. (2006, 22 August). Toronto City Hall.

• "Preliminary Report" [910.69kB]. City Hall.