{"id":4829,"date":"2022-05-17T20:31:57","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T20:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cromwellmgt.ca\/when-greatness-meets-uniqueness-in-honor-of-mr-uno-prii\/"},"modified":"2023-02-14T18:49:07","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T18:49:07","slug":"when-greatness-meets-uniqueness-in-honor-of-mr-uno-prii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cromwellmgt.ca\/en\/when-greatness-meets-uniqueness-in-honor-of-mr-uno-prii\/","title":{"rendered":"When greatness meets uniqueness – In honor of Mr. Uno Prii"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today Cromwell reveals its stunning restoration of 11 Walmer<\/a> in Toronto. It was designed in the late 1960s by architect Uno Prii, now listed as a heritage property by the City of Toronto Preservation Board.<\/p>\n

As Cromwell’s second acquisition of a design by the Estonian-born architect, the Farewell Apartments<\/a> is among the most original creations in the Annex district with its curved balconies. The 7-story building is eye-catching in its originality. However, it was severely criticized at the time by Torontonians for its ugliness, its marginality, and its lack of integration with the environment.<\/p>\n

In the early 1960s, after designing several straight towers that Uno Prii described as boring, he chose to give his new designs a different style. The rounded balconies of 11 Walmer give it an almost circular profile, characteristic of Prii’s work of this period.<\/p>\n

The common areas, the units and the exterior courtyard have all been completely redesigned to meet the needs of nowadays tenants and the machinery systems have been completely modernized. A competent team of collaborators has allowed us to realize this magnificent project of incomparable quality.<\/p>\n

By revealing 11 Walmer, Cromwell recognizes and celebrates the genius of this man who dared to find a way to break the monotony of rectilinear towers and who was never awarded an architectural prize in his lifetime.<\/p>\n

Source : Torontoist : Historicist : Space-Age, Ahead of its Time<\/u>, by Kevin Plummer, Nov 1, 2014<\/p>\n\n

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