City Place - Neo Edit Building

Identification

Approximate Address - Front & Spadina [map]

City - Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Region - Greater Golden Horseshoe

Complex - City Place

Complex Buildings - 22 buildings. See City Place for details.

Nearby Buildings - Brookfield Place - Tower 3

Technical

Type - High-Rise

Designation - Condominium

Status - Construction

Height - 55m181feet

Floors - 15

Units - 333 suites

Suites - From 42m²460feet² to 85m²916feet²

Companies

Architect - Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects

Developer - Concord Adex

Interior Design - Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects

Building Record History

2008-03-16

Reference Material

Contributors: Jonathan Martins, Rod Taylor

• Harness, Allison. (2006, 21 January). "Flurry of building west of Yonge St". Toronto Star.

  NEO: Northwest corner of Bremner Blvd. and Spadina Ave. Builder: Concord Adex Developments. A 15-storey building with 333 units. Prices: from $139,900 for 460 sq. ft. to $304,200 for 916 sq. ft. Fees: 38 cent per sq. ft., plus hydro Amenities: rock climbing wall, indoor pool, kitchen, party rooms, gym, two theatres, whirlpool, steam rooms, card room, arts and crafts room, media room children's play room, music practice room, billiards/table tennis room, private garden and courtyard, 24-hour concierge, massage room, exercise area, dining room. Sales: over 70 per cent sold. Status: under construction. Occupancy: June 2007.

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• Mays, John Bentley. (2005, 1 July). "Neo project offers more than good intentions". The Globe and Mail: :G2.

  But in the past couple of weeks, we got something more concrete than promises. It came with the launch of marketing for Neo, CityPlace's most recent offering to condominium buyers.

  Designed by the well-known Toronto architectural firm of Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg, this complex undertaking will create a large, porous chunk of cityscape west of Spadina, between the future westward extension of Bremner Boulevard and the railway corridor that marks the northern boundary of the CityPlace site. Instead of a simple tower looming over parkland, Neo is to be a set of "fine-tuned relationships," according to architect Bruce Kuwabara. If this combination of low and high structures works out as intended, Neo could set an example of good architectural citizenship for future parts of CityPlace, and developments elsewhere in Toronto.

  A 17-storey slab, slung low and long like an Edwardian warehouse, will stand by the west side of Spadina Avenue, establishing a bold streetscape like that in the old garment district up the street -- stone and brick facings abutting the sidewalk, with inviting, large storefronts at street level. "When the curtain walls are all glass windows, you lose a sense of groundedness," Mr. Kuwabara says. "You can use red brick as a signifier of building the city, for grounding the project in Toronto."

  Rising just west of the warehouse slab will be a 49-storey skyscraper with more glass and modernistic, big-city attitude. The principal entrances of both slab and tower will be, interestingly, on the north face of each, alongside the railway corridor. I don't think I could have predicted this arrangement. The east-west rail trench that terminates at nearby Union Station has always seemed to be, to my eyes anyway, an important and valuable but homely bit of infrastructure.

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