Forma: High Design

With a population growth of between 70,000 and 100,000 people per year, and the geographic restraints of Lake Ontario to its south and a protected greenbelt area to its north, Toronto has become one of the world’s most vertical cities. The city is reaching skyward to accommodate this growth with 70-, 80- and 90-storey residential condominiums announced seemingly every month, if not weekly. The city now leads North America in the number of construction cranes, and people rarely look up anymore at another new condo reaching into the sky.

Until now. Until Forma.

A planned shining, gleaming, two-tower mixed-use residential development in the heart of Toronto’s Entertainment District on King Street West, the project marks the triumphant return to his hometown of world-renowned architect Frank Gehry and will become perhaps the most significant structure built in Toronto in decades. A stunning masterpiece of urban design and vivid imagination, Forma is more art than structure and will be a signature statement of architecture certain to dominate the ever-changing Toronto skyline. Its facade of metal and glass will capture the light and reflect the very essence of the metropolis, which was the intention and inspiration of the hometown architect who knows his beloved city so well.

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