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Outrageously colourful cluster of towers will be unlike anything else in Toronto

Jack Landau

created: April 25, 2025, 3:06 p.m. | updated: April 27, 2025, 6:27 a.m.

The sprawling site at 2444 Eglinton Avenue East, a commuter parking lot just north of Kennedy GO and TTC station and adjacent auto body shop, is set to be redeveloped with three new residential towers. But unlike the monotonous blue-grey glass Toronto residents are used to, these towers would feature wildly colourful designs from Vancouver-based Henriquez Partners Architects. CreateTO announced in January 2024 that Civic Developments, Windmill Developments, and the Co-operative Housing Federation of Toronto had been selected as partners in a bidding process to develop the site. The massing of the towers is restrained, though punched windows with colourful frames set in textured precast concrete have come together to form what is being touted in plans as a cost-effective solution to getting housing built. One person's idea of beauty could be repulsive to others, and this design — while innovative — still has plenty of room to become polarizing.

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