REGENT PARK DEMOLITION
The ongoing redevelopment of the Regent Park neighborhood in downtown Toronto plays like a narrative that could happen anywhere.
The Toronto slums were bulldozed in the 1950s and redeveloped but by the mid to late 1960s these modernist buildings fell into disrepair.
The architect Peter Dickinson designed five fourteen story Maisonette Tower's. Appropriating ideas from Le Corbusier’s Unite d’habitation in Marseilles, Dickinson, then with Page and Steele Architects won the Massey Silver Medal in 1958 for these towers.
15 and 63 Belshaw Place are demolished, Three towers are still standing. The property at 14 Blevins Place is recommended for inclusion on the City of Toronto Inventory of Heritage Properties for its cultural heritage value and interest.
REGENT PARK DEMOLITION
The ongoing redevelopment of the Regent Park neighborhood in downtown Toronto plays like a narrative that could happen anywhere.
The Toronto slums were bulldozed in the 1950s and redeveloped but by the mid to late 1960s these modernist buildings fell into disrepair.
The architect Peter Dickinson designed five fourteen story Maisonette Tower's. Appropriating ideas from Le Corbusier’s Unite d’habitation in Marseilles, Dickinson, then with Page and Steele Architects won the Massey Silver Medal in 1958 for these towers.
15 and 63 Belshaw Place are demolished, Three towers are still standing. The property at 14 Blevins Place is recommended for inclusion on the City of Toronto Inventory of Heritage Properties for its cultural heritage value and interest.