Carnaby Lofts

What this building is

Carnaby Lofts is a soft loft at 11-17 Peel Avenue, in Beaconsfield Village. It was purpose-built as housing in 2015, not converted from an earlier use. The catalogue records 400 units.

Purpose-built in the loft idiom: open plans, tall windows and exposed services, but new construction rather than a conversion.

The Carnaby is a residential development at 11 Peel Avenue, just north of Queen Street West near Gladstone Avenue. It combines a 20-storey tower of about 200 suites with an 11-storey mid-rise, known as Carnaby Row, extending north from it, and it forms part of a full-block redevelopment that also includes Two Gladstone, Eight Gladstone and Twenty Condos. Before redevelopment the block was described as a derelict stretch of the neighbourhood.

The project was developed by Streetcar Developments with Dream, formerly Dundee Realty, and designed by TACT Architecture, with Giovanni A. Tassone Architects also credited and suite interiors by Seven Haus Design. The tower is clad in a reflective window wall with dark grey mullions and spandrels, with white precast bands and white balconies on its southern half and charcoal brick on the lower west side of the podium. The mid-rise facade is divided into four distinct treatments. Suites announced at launch were one and two bedroom layouts, some with dens. The tower topped out at the end of 2014 and was nearing completion in September 2015.

A pedestrian mews runs north to south through the middle of the block, lined with shops and studio space and linked by passageways to the surrounding streets. The 501 Queen streetcar runs along Queen Street West to the south.

Sources: Streetcar's Carnaby Condos transforming Queen and Gladstone, UrbanToronto (2015); Carnaby now topping Queen and Gladstone, UrbanToronto (2014); First look: interior design photos, Streetcar Developments' Carnaby, UrbanToronto (2012); The Carnaby Condos project database, SkyriseCities.

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Before you buy here

Sourced, dated guides to the questions that come up with a building like this one:

• Hard lofts and soft lofts: what the terms mean and what to check
• Status certificates for Toronto condos and lofts: what they say and the 10-day rule
• Condo reserve funds, reserve fund studies and special assessments in Ontario
• Lofts in Beaconsfield Village: the neighbourhood guide