Pure Spirit Lofts

What this building is

Pure Spirit Lofts is a soft loft at 33 Mill Street, in Distillery District. It was purpose-built as housing in 2009, not converted from an earlier use. The catalogue records 378 units.

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

Pure Spirit is a condominium tower on the south side of Mill Street at the northwestern corner of the Distillery Historic District. Developed by Cityscape Development Corp and designed by architectsAlliance, it was the first condominium tower built in the district and the first of three towers the firm designed there, followed by Clear Spirit and The Gooderham. Construction was under way in 2006, and the building was finished in 2009.

The district occupies the former Gooderham and Worts distillery, which produced spirits for about a century and a half. Its Victorian industrial buildings were restored in the early 2000s and opened to the public in 2003, and Pure Spirit was the first high-rise residential building added to that setting. The tower is clad in milky white glass, which contrasts with the red brick of the surrounding buildings at street level. Its wedge-shaped podium frames Gristmill Lane, one of the pedestrian lanes leading into the district.

The building lines Mill Street between Parliament Street and a point just west of Trinity Street, with the brick lanes, courtyards and car-free streets of the district immediately to the south and east. Parliament Street leads north toward King Street East and the 504 King streetcar, which also serves the Distillery Loop on Cherry Street. The St. Lawrence neighbourhood lies to the west and the Canary District and Corktown Common to the east.

Sources: Photo of the Day: Cityscape's completed Pure Spirit and soon-to-be rising Clear Spirit, UrbanToronto (2010); Throwback Thursday: Mill Street, UrbanToronto (2015); Another win for Toronto's Distillery District, The Globe and Mail; Throwback Thursday: Distillery District, UrbanToronto (2015).

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