The cube house, depending upon one’s perspective, is either a Toronto housing icon or an ugly, elevated, box\u002Dshaped hunk of junk. Read more.
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He intends to demolish the cubes to make way for development unless someone with the financial means steps up to relocate them at their own expense. “Somebody didn’t do something for the city here — and this is their monument — there is no heritage value to the cubes,” he said. “What this is, is a failed dream.”Photo by Supplied/Jeff Brown
That’s the same cry Kutner heard way back in the 1980s during an earlier affordable housing crisis. In those days, the West Don Lands were slated for redevelopment as part of a public-housing venture bankrolled by the city and Ontario. About $400 million was sunk into the venture, much of it on land remediation, before it was cancelled in 1992 without a single home being built.Article content
In an ideal situation, the structures would pop up in otherwise underutilized urban spaces, say, above surface parking lots, on wedges of seemingly derelict land surrounded by roadways or wherever else they might fit to enhance density. Jokes aside, Kutner and Brown’s modules appear to need some tender loving care and a thorough power wash. The base is scarred with graffiti, garbage is strewn around the lot and a lonely looking wooden sign anchored amid the mess offers an optimistic message: “beauty.”The base of the modules is scarred with graffiti, with garbage strewn around the lot.
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