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Identification
Also known as - Living Shangri-La
Approximate Address - 180 University Avenue [map]
City - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Region - Greater Golden Horseshoe
Nearby Buildings - 170 University Avenue, DBRS Tower, 165 University Avenue, 200 University Avenue, Simcoe Dev - Tower 1, 155 University Avenue, 154 University Avenue, 203 Adelaide Street West, Hilton International Toronto, 200 Adelaide Street West
Technical
Type - Skyscraper
Designation - Condominium, Hotel
Status - Excavation
Height - 212m698feet
Floors - 65 above ground and 8 below ground
Units - 572 suites
Suites - From 74m2800feet2 to 557m26000feet2
Total Floorspace - 81129m2873269feet2
Residential - 59248m2637745feet2
Other - 21296m2229231feet2
Commercial - 584m26293feet2
Companies
Architect - James K M Cheng Architect Inc.
Developer - Peterson Investment Group Inc.
Developer - Westbank Projects Corp.
Electrical Engineering - Nemetz SA & Associates Ltd.
Heritage Architect - ERA Architects Inc.
Landscape Architect - Phillips Farevaag Smallenberg
Mechanical Engineering - M V Shore Associates Ltd.
Mechanical Engineering - Sterling Cooper & Assocs Ltd
Structural Engineering - Adjeleian Allen Rubeli Ltd
Structural Engineering - Jones Kwong Kishi
The proposal is for a sixty-three storey (209m) mixed use building including a five-star hotel, residential condominium, restaurant and retail uses. Five levels of below grade parking containing 486 parking spaces will be provided. The podium height is designed to reflect the podium height of the new Opera House under construction on the east side of University Avenue.
Building Record History
2008-05-08
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2008-04-08
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2008-04 - Excavation
2006-04-24 - Proposed
2005 - Proposed
Reference Material
Contributors: Rod Taylor, Tipharah Lavigne
"Shangri-La Hotel, Toronto to Open 2011". (2008, 8 April). Marketwire.
Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, Asia Pacific's leading luxury hotel group, signed an agreement with Vancouver's Westbank and Peterson Group to manage the 202-room five-star Shangri-La Hotel, Toronto opening 2011. The hotel will be Shangri-La's second property in Canada following the debut of the Shangri-La Hotel, Vancouver in January 2009 by the same development team.
The hotel will occupy the first 17 floors of the C$430 million 66-storey tower. Its 202 guestrooms will be among the most spacious in the city and decorated in a contemporary style with Asian highlights.
The hotel's function rooms, on the third floor, will open onto a landscaped garden terrace as well as overlook the historic Bishop's Block to the southwest. The ballroom will seat 200 and four smaller rooms will seat 12 to 50 persons. All function rooms will offer floor-to-ceiling windows and an elegant pre-function foyer. A screening room/theatre seating 50 guests will provide a venue for screenings or executive presentations that require dramatic special effects.
Westbank is Canada's pre-eminent luxury residential developer. The company was founded in 1992 and emerged as a leader in the development of retail shopping centres. Today, emphasis is on selecting key urban spaces to develop environmentally sensitive mixed-use/residential properties, defined by world-class design, amenities, landscape architecture and compelling public art. Westbank is currently developing or has completed over 11 million square feet of real estate exceeding $3.7 billion in cost with new properties in Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Edmonton and Dallas.
Peterson Group is a leading private real estate and manufacturing company with offices in Vancouver and Hong Kong. The company is recognized among its peers for bringing a proven, progressive and entrepreneurial approach to signature developments and acquisitions as well as to ventures in the manufacturing sector. Peterson Group's North American real estate portfolio totals over 5.4 million square feet and is comprised of large, mixed-use developments including retail, office, residential and institutional properties.
"Shangri-La Toronto, 180-188 University Ave, 192-194 Adelaide St W, M5H". (2007, 2 November). Reed Construction Data.
Project: reinforced concrete foundation, steel pile foundation, cast-in-place concrete structural frame, structural steel frame, other roof structure, fuel fired heating system, package air conditioning/heat pump system, 02315; excavation, 02935; landscape, 03210; reinforcing steel, 08410; steel-framed storefronts, 08800; glazing systems, 08970; structural glass curtain walls, 12400; interior decorating, 13020; hotel and dormitory units, 13700; security access and surveillance, 13850; fire alarm, 13910; fire sprinkler, 16720; telephone and intercommunication equipment, proposed construction of a hotel and condominium apartment building. The hotel will be located on the first 17 floors. Floors 10 and up will be condominium residential units.
Scope: 1,000,000 square feet; 65 storeys; 8 storeys below grade; 352 units; parking for 395 cars
Owner: Westbank Projects Corp
Architect: James K M Cheng Architect Inc
Architect of Record: Young & Wright Architects Ltd
Structural cons eng: Jones Kwong Kishi
Structural cons eng: Adjeleian Allen Rubeli Ltd
Mechanical cons eng: Sterling Cooper & Assocs Ltd
Mechanical cons eng: M V Shore Associates 1993Ltd
Electrical cons eng: Nemetz SA & Associates Ltd
Yu, Sydnia. (2007, 21 March). "DOWNTOWN: Tower to offer comforts of a favourite hotel". Globe and Mail.
Called Living Shangri-La Toronto, the 65-storey tower at University Avenue and Adelaide Street will combine a five-star hotel with a luxury condominium. Located across from the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, it will contain 220 guest rooms and, above them, 352 residences. Owners of those suites will have access to the hotel's spa and pool, as well as 24-hour conveniences such as housekeeping and room service.
Living Shangri-La Toronto is the second Canadian property to be developed by Hong Kong-based Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts along with Vancouver-based Westbank and Peterson Group. The companies' Living Shangri-La Vancouver will be completed next year. Shangri-La Hotels is well known in Asia for its high-end hotels and resorts, and now is expanding into North America.
The Toronto tower, situated between the financial and entertainment districts, will include 279 one- |and two-bedroom suites from the 18th to 48th floor. Prices range from $550,000 to $1.7-million.
Starting on the 49th floor, there will be 71 executive suites measuring between 1,900 and 3,700 square feet. Priced from $2.1-million to more than $5-million, these units will feature separate elevators, lobbies, and concierge and valet services. There are a few two-level plans with double-height ceilings in the principal room.
The two penthouse units will have more than 6,000 square feet of space and cost about $10-million each.
Purchasers can expect to move in by the spring of 2011.
Builder/developer: Westbank and Peterson Group
Square footage: 800 to more than 6,000
"Shangri-La Toronto, 180-188 University Ave, 192-194 Adelaide St W, M5H". (2007, 17 January). Reed Construction Data - Keymail Report.
Scope: 870,000 square feet; 65 storeys; 8 storeys below grade; 350 units; parking for 474 cars.
"Westbank on Shangri-La Toronto". Accessed 12 Jan 06.
Mail, Globe And. (2005, 19 November). "An Eyesore goes Five-Star". STEPHEN WICKENS: :M3.
A massive high-rise building that every Torontonian can love may be too much to ask for. But word that Westbank Developments will soon announce plans for a 63-storey hotel and condominium tower is prompting cheers from a seemingly unlikely source -- local historians and preservationists. Maybe more unlikely, at least to the uneducated eye, is the reason for the excitement.
Have you ever noticed a boarded-up building that looks set to crumble into the parking lot at the northeast corner of Adelaide and Simcoe Streets? To most, it's a dump, abandoned since the Pretzel Bell Tavern closed a quarter-century ago. But to history buffs, it's all that remains of Bishop's Block, a three-storey set of once-luxurious apartments built as an investment by butcher John Bishop from 1829 to 1833.
Now, development lawyer Stephen Diamond has been hired to get Westbank and its partner, the Peterson Group, through Toronto's tricky approvals process. Mr. Diamond says the out-of-town developer would prefer not to make any announcements about the $320-million project until it is much closer to getting the green light.
Bishop's Block would be a separate but connected building, and ERA Architects -- the firm that restored the Carlu and the Distillery District -- has already been into the derelict building to assess its condition and take pictures.
"Final Report" [1.91MB]. City Hall.
"Staff Report" [1.15MB]. City Hall.