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Fashion House Condos photo update

November 28 2013: A view of Fashion House Condos on King Street West, where construction is nearing completion and units are being fitted with the building’s trademark bold red window coverings.

By popular request: Judging by the email I’ve been receiving lately, there’s considerable interest in the Fashion House Condos development on King Street West. Numerous people have asked if I have taken any recent photos of the midrise residential building designed by Toronto’s CORE Architects Inc., which is nearing the end of construction.

I actually had an opportunity to snap some photos just a few days ago during a quick trip to the King West area, so I have posted them in the Fashion House Condos album on thetorontoblog.com’s Flickr page.

An update on this Freed Developments project will follow soon.

Click on the image to view a small-format slideshow of Fashion House condo photos. Click twice to open the Flickr album and view individual full-size pictures.

Fashion House Condos’ stacked glass box design taking shape as construction climbs to 10th floor

November 23 2010: Hoarding surrounds the historic Toronto Silver Plate Building at 570 King Street West before excavation commenced behind it for the new Fashion House Condos development. The city-designated heritage building will be restored and incorporated into the new condo complex for commercial uses.

January 10 2013: The L-shaped King Building of the Fashion House condo complex climbs above the north and east sides of the Toronto Silver Plate Building as construction reaches the 10th floor, with 2 floors still to be built

November 23 2010: A view of the Fashion House condo site from King Street shortly before foundation drilling and shoring work began.

February 6 2013: The concrete frame for the new building has reached 10 storeys, while window and cladding installation has begun on three floors

Designer digs: With construction of Fashion House Condos now up to 10 floors and just a few weeks away from topping off at 12, the building’s stacked platform design is becoming more apparent to passersby on King Street West. Installation of floor-to-ceiling windows on three floors, so far, also indicates that the condo interiors will be cheery, bright spaces regardless of whether the sky is cloudy or clear — unless residents choose to keep the building’s signature lipstick-red curtains closed.

The 334-unit complex is a project of Freed Developments, which had asked Toronto’s Core Architects Inc. to design a contemporary building that would celebrate King Street’s long history as a fashion district. (The area formerly was known as Toronto’s Garment District.)

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Fashion House Condos breaks ground

Foundation pile drilling rig at Fashion House Condos site January 14 2011

Big Red: Construction has started on what’s promising to be the most fashionable — and eye-popping colourful — digs on trendy King Street West. Foundation pile drilling crews were on the site of Fashion House Condos last week, the latest Freed Developments project to get shovels in the ground.

Situated on the north side of King between Brant and Portland Streets, Fashion House will have 334 condo suites along with ground-floor retail shops and restaurants in what the project’s website describes as “a stunning 12-storey glass and steel staircase tower” of “intricate platform design.”

The sleek glass structure will connect to the historic three-storey brick building at 570 King Street West, which will be restored.

Fashion House seems destined to become an address that will be easy to find and hard to miss, thanks to the “dashing lipstick-red window coverings on the building’s exteriors (all of which shine a crisp, clean white inside)” that will complete the building’s “fashion-forward design statement.” (That’s assuming red remains a hot fashion colour by the time construction concludes.)

The project, designed by Toronto’s Core Architects Inc., is more than 85% sold.

Below are some photos I’ve taken at the Fashion House site, along with some artistic renderings of the condo building from the Fashion House website.

Artistic rendering of Fashion House Condos

Artistic rendering of Fashion House Condos

Fashion House Condos rendering on billboard at project site

This historic brick building, seen on March 11 2010, will be restored and connected to the sleek glass Fashion House Condos tower

Fashion House Condos location viewed on March 11 2010

Fashion House Condos location viewed on November 23 2010

Fashion House Condos location viewed on November 23 2010

Fashion House Condos location viewed on November 23 2010

Foundation pile drilling rig at Fashion House Condos site January 14 2011

Foundation pile drilling rig at Fashion House Condos site January 14 2011

Foundation pile drilling rig at Fashion House Condos site January 14 2011