One Delisle tower blooms near Yonge and St. Clair
The 44-storey condo from Studio Gang breaks Toronto's glass-tower mold with a daring geometric design — but most of us will only admire it from outside.
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A flower-shaped condo tower rising near Yonge and St. Clair is setting itself apart from Toronto's sea of soulless glass boxes.
One Delisle, a 44-storey ultra-luxury development from Slate Asset Management and Globizen Group, eschews the standard steel-and-glass approach with a wildly geometric aesthetic designed by Chicago-based Studio Gang — the firm's first Canadian project. Concrete forming reached the final residential floor this past spring, marking a key construction milestone since work began in mid-2022.
The blooming exterior is striking enough that most of us will encounter it during daily life — but likely never set foot inside. The condo market has hollowed out as pre-construction buyers face dwindling returns, though the building's design ambition at least offers some consolation: a landmark that pushes beyond the generic.
Toronto is witnessing a broader surge in top-tier architectural designs. Alongside supertall towers like One Bloor West, the Pinnacle SkyTower, Concord Sky, and Forma, the city is seeing more world-class work — including the mountain-range-shaped KING Toronto under construction on King Street West. In a frenzied boom followed by a burst bubble, the most ambitious visions managed to emerge unscathed.