Glas Lofts

What this building is

Glas Lofts is a soft loft at 25 Oxley Street, in Downtown West. It was purpose-built as housing in 2009, not converted from an earlier use. The catalogue records 165 units.

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

Glas is a condominium building at 25 Oxley Street, near the intersection of King Street West and Spadina Avenue, designed by Peter Clewes and his team at architectsAlliance. The complex fills most of a city block, with frontages on Oxley Street and on Charlotte Street, which runs north from King Street. Residents had begun moving in by early 2009.

The building rises from a two-storey base of glass and stainless steel along Oxley Street, with a glass facade continuing up several more floors before the massing steps back. Toronto Star critic Christopher Hume described it in 2009 as reading almost as a series of separate structures, some transparent and others clad in dark masonry. On the Charlotte Street side, a box-like volume in black brick anchors the composition, and circular steel planters line the sidewalk. Interiors include exposed concrete walls, floor-to-ceiling glazing and stainless steel staircases and trim, and the upper floors contain two-level penthouse suites. An automated car lift serves the underground garage.

The palette of brick, concrete and steel refers to the industrial warehouses of the former garment district around King and Spadina, an area of factories and garment workers that has since been redeveloped with lofts, condominiums, townhouses, shops and restaurants. Upper floors look toward the Rogers Centre, the CN Tower and King Street West. The 504 King streetcar runs along King Street West to the south, and the 510 Spadina streetcar runs along Spadina Avenue nearby.

Sources: A high-design condo with a James Bond edge, The Globe and Mail (2010); Christopher Hume, Condo Critic, Toronto Star (July 18, 2009), as reproduced in UrbanToronto forum thread.

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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 Downtown West: the neighbourhood guide