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Fashion House Lofts - 560 King Street West
Start with a 127-year-old heritage building, add a sleek, sexy 10-storey new loft building. What will follow is sure to redefine the height of fashionable living with an incredible modernization of space, shape and form. Freed Developments is incorporating a heritage factory with an ultra modern residential oasis. Art, design and history fused together to create The Fashion House Lofts in the heart of King West Village.
The existing heritage structure will house fabulous retail shops right in the building. There will also be commercial work lofts for those who like to create where they live.
The Fashion House Lofts will be located at 560 King Street West (currently the site of a gas station). The lofts will face King Street to the south, with the Fashion District Lofts as the northern neighbor. King West soft lofts are what Freed is known for. His company was behind the development of the lofts at 66 Portland, 20 Stewart, 75 Portland, 550 Wellington, 10 Morrison and 650 King Street.
The Fashion House Lofts is the first Freed "named" condo development (notice that all of his former projects above are known by their street numbers). This new loft project will feature an interesting, innovative design, taking into consideration the density of the area and using playful geometric shapes to break the urban monotony with grace.
The Fashion House Lofts may be one of the last Freed developments in King West, and so far they have delivered high-quality design-oriented products to the market consistently increasing in value. These buildings attract the upwardly-mobile, making a lot of people happy. If you haven't owned a Freed before this is a good opportunity to get the latest in design and technology by this developer.
Fashion House will consist of 360 units and rise 14 storeys high. A five-storey curtain wall of glass hits the sidewalk hard. Above the lower glistening slab, there is a one-storey horizontal notch. Over this reveal ascends another block of glass, three storeys thick and arrayed parallel to the street. At the tenth storey, the powerful compression of the design is suddenly released, and an elevated garden, with large trees and a swimming pool, opens to the sky. The backdrop of this park, in turn, is formed by yet another slab that carries the structure up to its full 14 storeys.
The building fronting King Street West is known as the Toronto Silver Plate Building and was constructed in 1882 for the Toronto Silver Plating Company. With the Gurney Stove Factory (1873) at 500-520 King Street West, the factory is one of the earliest surviving industrial complexes in the area.
The Toronto Silver Plate Building is architecturally significant for its orientation and design that distinguish it from other factories in the area. Historically, the building is notable as one of the earliest surviving factory complexes in King-Spadina. It contributes contextually to the character of the King-Spadina neighbourhood as it evolved from a residential to an industrial district at the end of the 19th century.
The Toronto Silver Plate Building was included on the City of Toronto's Inventory of Heritage Properties as part of the King-Spadina Area Study by City Council in June 2005.
Email or phone 416-388-1960 today if this loft interests you.
Fashion House Lofts - 560 King Street West