The Rooftop is a unique indoor/outdoor resident lounge offering a complete wellness experience. More than a gym or amenity alone, it aims to create an inspiring experience, combining fitness, wellness and community.

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Omer Arbel’s innovative installation at Toronto House is a linear cloud or coral-like form made of welded sand-cast aluminum pieces, called 44.

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A unique collective concept of multiple studios under one roof, House Concepts is Westbank’s own fitness and wellness brand, with Toronto House being the first new location opening in Toronto. 

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> There are reasons that cities such as New York, London, Paris, and Singapore (and Toronto) routinely attract the best companies, the top talent, and the most investment dollars. Influential cities such as these possess the right mix of factors such as business activity, human capital, information exchange, political engagement, and cultural experiences that help organizations and people to thrive.
> *— 2018 Global Cities Report, ATKearny*

There are many ways to measure the qualities of a global city, and by every such metric, the city of Toronto earns its way onto the list. In fact, when the global consultancy ATKearney looks at both its lists – the first, an Index of cities that are currently doing well, and the second, an Outlook identifying those cities showing the most promise – it comes up with a super list of “Elite Cities,” among which Toronto stands fourth in North America. Of course, such lists always include places you where would rather visit than live. But Toronto, also makes the top 10 in virtually every global list for those cities with the highest quality of life, as judged on factors such as stability, healthcare, culture, environment, education and infrastructure.

With 2.8 million people, Toronto is the largest city in Canada and one of the 5 most multicultural cities in the world. It is Canada’s business and finance centre, as well as its cultural capital. It’s a national and international centre for live music, theatre and the performing arts and for the amount of excellent television and movie work executed in the city.

It’s also in the top 10 of the World Economic Forum’s list of the leading high-tech cities in the world, with an innovation culture that is supported by one of the most advanced and accomplished systems for education and research. The University of Toronto,
for example, consistently ranks among the world’s top 20 research institutions.

Thanks, in part, to its diverse population, Toronto’s food and restaurant culture is unmatched; Vogue magazine has declared it a must-visit food destination. The same level diversity means that Toronto neighbourhoods are richly varied, with cultural communities all existing in a mosaic, rather than a melting pot. Finally, Toronto is one of the safest cities in North America; Statistics Canada has reported that it’s even among the safest in Canada!

## A Great Global City; A Great Local City

It’s a mistake to treat real estate as a commodity. If you buy property by the square foot, you can always get something cheaper, something farther away – something weighed, as it were, by the pound. But the value of that purchase will rise and fall with the market, sometimes rising a little faster in boom times, but usually falling a little farther when things turn bad.

In every economic circumstances, quality will float to the surface. In that calculation,
location is undeniably important. The world’s highest-quality (and highest-value) real estate markets all share strengths in such broad factors as geography, climate, accessibility, prosperity, stability, and social and environmental livability. They tend to be in economic and cultural capitals.

The highest value, however, attaches not just to properties in the best location, but those that are best in class. These are marked by optimal location and extraordinary architecture, and are distinguished by extremely high quality of execution. Even beyond the general quality of their location, they are also placed carefully in their immediate space – by their interaction and by the very presence enriching their setting. Such buildings don’t just benefit their owners, residents, retailers and tenants, they make their neighbourhoods and their whole cities better.

If you look in the cities where Westbank practices, you will find that Westbank’s buildings consistently emerge as some of the highest-value properties. In Vancouver, for example, the four leading properties are all Westbank creations, including: the Fairmont Pacific Rim by James Cheng; Vancouver House by Bjarke Ingels; Alberni by Kengo Kuma; and most recently The Butterfly by the late Bing Thom. In Toronto, the list would surely include the Shangri-la, by James Cheng.

In that context, there is no question that King will make its neighbourhood, and this city, better. There is no doubt that this will stand as one of the most enviable residential addresses in Toronto and around the globe.

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## Our interest in Toronto

Our Toronto adventure began with the Shangri-La Hotel and Residences with related projects including Soho House and Momofuku restaurant with our frequent partners
Ben Yeung of Peterson Group and Avtar Bains. When combined with our next three developments, Westbank’s reputation in Toronto will be well established.
Shangri-La Toronto, our first foray into the Toronto market, is a 705-foot tower featuring a 202 room Shangri-La Hotel and 395 luxury residential condominiums, located on University Avenue, Toronto’s ceremonial avenue.

On the border between the entertainment and financial districts, these homes enjoy
the convenience and vibrancy of urban living with the services of the 5-star Shangri-La Hotel, which was chosen in 2014 by Wallpaper Magazine as the top Urban Hotel in the world. The project offers owners and hotel guests a host of amenities including a lap pool with hot tub, sauna and steam room, a spa, fitness centre, function spaces and specialty restaurants, one of which is Momofuku, a three-storey and tri-concept restaurant by lauded New York chef, David Chang.


The 67-storey tower has a folding façade that recognizes the ceremonial nature of University Avenue while elegantly articulating the various uses within the building.
The tower is anchored on both ends by three- storey glass cubes to showcase the specialty restaurant and event spaces.

Similar to the Pacific Rim, the original partners, Westbank and Peterson, continue to own
the hotel, with a long term goal of continual refinement and layering on of art and culture, in an effort to establish the hotel amongst the best urban hotels in the world.

## 19 Duncan/225 Adelaide

Just a block away from Shangri-La at the corner of Duncan and Adelaide is a combination of a rental residential tower on top of a heritage office building. 19 Duncan is another project which continues to strengthen our relationship with Allied, whose property portfolio is anchored in the surrounding blocks. Allied was the first to recognize the emerging creative and digital economies and how their preferences for office space and location are much different than other sectors of the economy - they are a visionary who are also turning out to be a fantastic partner. That vision has proven instrumental in helping us convince Thomson Reuters, one of Canada’s strongest global brands, to lease all of the office space in 19 Duncan, as the location of their new Global Innovation Hub. At the end of the day, we were able to draw Thomson Reuters through the quality of our architecture and our interesting location. An area just outside the financial core, surrounded by amenities and an authentic, vibrant neighbourhood, is exactly what their young educated workforce is looking for.

## Mirvish Village 

Mirvish Village is our third project in Toronto at Bloor and Bathurst where, along with our partner, Peterson Group, we bought Honest Ed’s discount department store from his son David Mirvish in 2014. We wound up with this 3.5 acres at one of Toronto’s most iconic corners, which is as much a responsibility as an opportunity. It is incumbent upon us to honour the historical connection that people have to this location. So, working with Henriquez Partners Architects, we resisted the typical large-scale Toronto development pattern in favour of a fine-grained retail and pedestrian experience more suited to the rhythm of Bloor Street. The project will mesh well with the neighbourhood and will cluster around a new public market.

Mirvish Village will also be a further opportunity for Creative Energy, our district energy utility, to demonstrate intelligent city building by looking beyond the building scale. The site will host the Mirvish Village Neighbourhood Energy System, a block- scale network that will provide reliable and renewable heating, cooling, and power. The initial emphasis of the system will be on using waste heat recovery from onsite power generation to feed all six new buildings in the project (including five towers) along with the 24 existing heritage buildings. The block-scale energy grid will be designed to be lower cost and more reliable than stand-alone systems. It will future-proof the capacity to adopt additional low carbon technologies, as well as expand to serve other buildings
as the adjacent Four Corners develops. Just as the development of this historic site is a responsibility to pay tribute to the past, so too is it a responsibility to ensure that the buildings, which will stand for generations to come, be designed in a way so as not to harm the climate. The flexibility that this system affords will enable climate friendly solutions for not just the entire developing block, but also the neighbouring community.

## KING Toronto

KING Toronto will be the realization of the combined vision of Westbank, Allied and BIG, a reimagining of the community-building potential of Moshe Safdie’s Habitat 67 and an updating on the glass-and -light innovations first exemplified in the Maison de Verre, in Paris. Bjarke Ingels’ concept for KING Toronto, suggesting a Mediterranean mountain town, will complement the surrounding context and neighbourhood.

Similar to Bing Thom’s design for the Westbank project at Broadway and Commercial in Vancouver, BIG’s design at Vancouver House, Gregory Henriquez’s design at Mirvish Village and his finished product in the Woodward’s development in Vancouver, KING Toronto is another example of how to use architecture to solve the challenges of urbanization. Density done effectively, as in these neighbourhoods, is the very medium through which a sense of community can emerge.

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