The Yorkville is the latest condo to pop its head above ground in its namesake neighbourhood, reaching its third floor this week.
"It's a 31-storey building so we’re going to continue building through the winter," says Lifetime Developments VP Michael Pearl. "We’ll start closing the building in the next month or so."
Designed by RWA Wallman, the building is distinguished from all the other glass towers on pedestals by a couple of boxy bulges in the building's top third.
Demolition of the old
Moriyama Teshima architecture office was completed at the beginning of 2012, and though that small garden enclave is itself a rehabilitated gas station, the digging was deep enough, according to Pearl four or five levels’ worth, that no soil reclamation was needed. "It was like beach sand down at the bottom," he says.
The interiors of the 233-unit building were designed by
Tomas Pearce Interior Design.
Pearl figures the first of the sold-out suites will be ready for their owners or tenants by the middle or end of 2015.
Writer: Bert Archer
Source; Michael Pearl