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Downtown Tall Buildings: Vision and Supplementary Design Guidelines
Published by City of Toronto
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- Type
- Guide
- Published by
- City of Toronto
- Date
- July 2012
- Also called
- Downtown Tall Buildings
- For
- designer
- Building types
- All building types
- Pages
- 39
Overview
Downtown Tall Buildings: Vision and Supplementary Design Guidelines, a 39-page City of Toronto document adopted in July 2012, consolidated with the city-wide Tall Building Design Guidelines in May 2013 and carrying housekeeping edits from January 2018. It covers the area bounded by Bathurst Street, the rail corridor north of Dupont, the Don Valley Parkway and the harbour. It gives a height vision by street, tall building typologies, seven supplementary guidelines, and maps and tables of street segments, meant to be read with the city-wide guidelines.
What it covers
- Guideline Area Boundary
- Introduction
- Downtown Tall Buildings Vision
- High Streets
- Secondary High Streets
- Factors Mitigating Height
- Additional Height
- Interpreting Height
- Downtown Tall Building Typologies
- Fit and Transition in Scale
- Sunlight and Sky View
- Heritage Properties and Heritage Conservation Districts
- Base Building Scale and Height
- Street Animation
- Tower Placement
- How to Use These Supplementary Guidelines
- Maps and Tables
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