ROM Condo Edit Building

Identification

Approximate Address - Bloor & University [map]

City - Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Region - Greater Golden Horseshoe

Technical

Type - High-Rise

Designation - Condominium

Status - Never Built

Floors - 46

Companies

Architect - Brisbin, Brook, Beynon Architects

Developer - Graywood Developments

Building Record History

2005-11 - Never Built

Reference Material

Contributors: Rod Taylor

• "Meeting turns thumbs down on ROM condo tower". (2005, 2 November). CBC News.

  The Royal Ontario Museum got a rough reception Tuesday at a public meeting about its plans to build a condominium tower on Queen's Park Crescent.

  The proposed 46-storey building would be erected next to the ROM on the site of the now-closed McLaughlin Planetarium, and would tower over neighbouring buildings at the nearby University of Toronto.

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• Stuffco, Jered. (2005, 2 November). "ROM condo project takes heat from critics". Globe and Mail.

  Critics of a proposed 46-storey condominium that could be erected at the south end of the Royal Ontario Museum faced off against the project's supporters in a heated exchange last night.

  Hampered by technical difficulties and heckling from the crowd, architect Brian Brisbin made his pitch, saying that a tower was always part of the original plan.

  Stephen Diamond, lawyer for Graywood Developments Ltd., noted that the city's Official Plan designates the property as a "development site" that is therefore "suitable for consideration of alternative forms of development."

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