Surprisingly this tower is actually in Chinatown. Taylor creates part of a ‘cliff’ of higher towers; to the east and north of here everything turns into a much lower mid-rise heritage-sensitive form, to the west is the multi-tower International Village scheme. There’s a great piece of public art, ‘Abacus’, on the Keefer Street side of the building, and there are some social housing units in the 251 unit project too. Hancock Bruckner Eng & Wright designed the tower to replace a parking lot that in turn replaced warehouse buildings, demolished years before.
Before image 2002; after image 2008