BT Towns is a residential development on Bridletowne Circle, comprised of both stacked townhomes and apartment style dwellings. The project establishes a medium scale, mitigating the difference in scale between the low-rise single-family homes and the high-rise apartments of the area.
BT Towns (Bridletowne Circle)
This project at 2100 Bridletowne Circle in Scarborough is an apartment block and stacked townhouse development containing 60 residential units on the site of a former one-storey commercial strip-plaza.
Toronto’s post-war building boom resulted in 1,925 high rise apartment towers spread throughout the city's existing residential fabric. As with many neighborhoods in the city, this left Bridletowne Circle with a “Missing Middle” – a gap between detached single houses and high-rise apartments with no transition zone in between.
BT Towns provides an innovative way of answering this challenge while adhering to Toronto’s official plan and the province of Ontario’s intensification objectives.
A visionary project for urban infill, responsible land-use and respectful densification, the site transforms a former one-storey nine-unit commercial strip-plaza. In three distinct blocks, 22 grade units are accommodated with 8 walk-up dwellings and 30 residential apartments served by a common corridor.
All units have a unique combination of townhouses and apartment typologies allowing for a range of sizes, configurations and affordability.
The project’s 4 storey building height is an ideal physical transition of scale and density between the high-rise towers located inside the circle and the 2-storey residential neighbourhood which surrounds it.
Our design and our client’s vision provide quality family-oriented housing choices to allow this urban node to mature into a unique, vibrant, and integrated neighbourhood.
