The L Tower // Toronto // Canada // Daniel Libeskind
The L Tower and Sony Centre for the Performing Arts Redevelopment by Daniel Libeskind is located in Toronto, Canada.
The 566,000 sq. ft. (137,500 Cultural, 428,500 Residential) complex will be completed in 2011.
The following is from the architect:
‘The redevelopment of the 50-year-old Sony Centre for the Performing Arts boasts the new L Tower Condominiums and a new arts and cultural facility, which will be combined with the Centre’s existing theater. The entire development will offer a new strategy for 21st Century living, whereby inner city life is actively integrated with culture and the arts. SDL is working with Castlepoint Realty Partners Limited on this project.
SDL’s design proposal for the cultural component of the L Tower and Sony Centre for the Performing Arts Redevelopment is conceptually engaged with the programmatic and experiential intentions of the ArtsLab. It achieves this via a formal and spatial strategy articulated through a central void in the building. This collective space, in the form of a semi-sphere, is a cultural hub, both symbolic and functional, evoking in form the global diversity of cultures present in Toronto and celebrated throughout the program. The residential tower component comprises the majority (428,000 sq.ft.) of the overall redesign. Situated atop the cultural facilities, it will contain approximately 470 units and rise to a height of 57 stories, providing stunning views over downtown Toronto and Ontario. The tower will assert the Sony Centre not only as an icon of the city skyline, but also of cultural institutions within the city.’
Number of Floors: 57 Floors, 46 Residential, 8 Cultural, 3 Mechanical, 3 Basements
Number of Units: 470
Structure: Concrete structure with glass curtain wall and window wall cladding 57 Floors
For further information visit: www.daniel-libeskind.com.
This is the dumbest description of a building ever. Libeskind is unbelievably insincere and vapid. I hope Toronto has learned from their mistakes on the last Libeskind disaster at the ROM.
I can’t believe Libeskind actually signed (initialed) that crappy little sketch!!
This guy’s ego is off the charts. He really does think his you-know-what is marmalade.
Libeskind did enough damage to Toronto’s image with his horrendous Crystal addition to the ROM. The L-Tower will further erode our city’s reputation.
It’s about time people stopped fawning over Libeskind and his preudo-intellectual, conflict-driven shape-making. Libeskind is all about himself and his insatiable ego. Those issues are not important to the rest of us, or to anyone who cares about architecture and design.
Looks like a student project, not like a professional design.
L tower website sucks! There is no helpful information whatsoever!
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last time i past by the that area which was in July 09, they havn’t started yet i have no idea when are they going to finish end of 2010
I threw up a bit in my mouth the first time I saw the design.
I am an architect and this has to be the most rediculous and arrogent building I have ever seen. It looks like a go-go dancer boot about to crush the Sony Centre, not a good image.
Like his other buildings I see a major design fault with how snow and water will collect and fall down the side of the building. I bet it will leak in no time, just like the leaky Crystal and the Denver Art Museum.
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There is no helpful information whatsoever in tower website