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Residents of the Queen & Ashbridge Condos won’t have to brave a packed Ontario highway if it’s cottage-country vibes they’re after.
Slated for completion in 2024, the 17-storey Leslieville project by Context Development and Riocan Living will be home to a central courtyard dubbed the Urban Forest, surrounded by a Cottage Collection of one- and two-bedroom suites. “As COVID began to take effect, and as more people started talking about getting away, we pivoted to bring a little Muskoka to the big city,” Context principal Howard Cohen explains.
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17 December 2020 at 19 h 29 min Reading time: 1 min
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In the summer of 2016, the team at of the Public City Architecture firm in Manitoba asked themselves a question that has likely occurred to many Canadians over the years: what would happen if we played crokinole, the classic cottage game of small wooden discs on an octagonal board, with curling stones? Where others have left that question in the realm of speculation the firm’s director, Liz Wreford, explained that Public City Architecture was not satisfied just to wonder.
“We just thought, wouldn’t it be fun to have it on a large scale, and combined with curling?” she said explaining that it wasn’t until later in the year in a meeting with representatives of the Forks market in Winnipeg that the team found the context in which to pull the idea out of their back pocket and bring it to life. “They invest a lot in unique outdoor recreation spaces and were very supportive.”