Toronto's lean towards less rectilinear architecture continues with
Abacus, the mid-rise condos going up at 1245 Dundas Street West.
Designed by
RAW and developed by the lawyer who represented the passengers on that famous long
Air Transat glide into Portugal in 2001, Abacus will be an eye-catching seven-storey bit of pointiness in the midst of a still evolving Dundas West strip.
Developer Tony Azevedo, who also rescued a collapsing bit of
Vine Avenue in the Junction last year, has told
Yonge Street Media: "I really, really like modern design." Though he's only just begun, Azevedo seems cut from the same mould as Les Malins, the accidental developer who built a one-time personal investment into major mid-rise player
Streetcar.
The condos are at the pre-construction
registration stage now, and are being sold through
Paul Johnston, with
59 Project Management, who also handled the Vine Avenue development, set to see the thing through.
Writer: Bert Archer
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