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DavefromSt.Vital · #**5661** Posted **Feb 8, 2019, 6:26 AM**

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Originally Posted by Andy6

It seems as though forumers don't own actual cameras anymore. It's as though we've gone full circle back to the SSP of 2002 when you had to imagine projects in your head.

Actually, I was just going by a zipfile video someone sent me a number of weeks back. It is not current. I was merely trying to give a tip for a potential location.

Given that I was staying at the Delta when I visited the RWB there was no need to drive and use the parkade. Windchills of -30 are still quite walkable. Unless of course you are acclimatized to Toronto winters...

esquire · #**5662** Posted **Feb 8, 2019, 2:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by Andy6

It seems as though forumers don't own actual cameras anymore. It's as though we've gone full circle back to the SSP of 2002 when you had to imagine projects in your head.

I still have some pictures from my first SSP photothread around that time that I snapped on a 35mm camera. Then a week later once they were developed, I laboriously scanned and uploaded them, one by one

cheswick · #**5663** Posted **Feb 8, 2019, 3:24 PM**

You can see the blue crane. Is that good enough? I'm not going outside.

rkspec · #**5664** Posted **Feb 8, 2019, 3:33 PM**

Is Dons Photo relevant these days? Prime location!

Winnipeg Grump · #**5665** Posted **Feb 8, 2019, 3:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by Andy6

It seems as though forumers don't own actual cameras anymore. It's as though we've gone full circle back to the SSP of 2002 when you had to imagine projects in your head.

Someone call the Wahmbulance!

Winnipeg Grump · #**5666** Posted **Feb 8, 2019, 3:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by Winnipeg Grump

Someone call the Wahmbulance!

Ugh!
Trying to get postimages to work.
Sorry.

bomberjet · #**5667** Posted **Feb 8, 2019, 4:02 PM**

^ We have our new Sutton Place photo contributor! haha

I find it interesting the piles are left sticking 6'-8' out of the ground like that. Seems excessive for them to cut of teat much steel. I wonder if they'll be formed into, or become part of, the actual building?

bomberjet · #**5668** Posted **Feb 8, 2019, 4:03 PM**

Medical Arts from today.

esquire · #**5669** Posted **Feb 8, 2019, 4:05 PM**

^ Nice improvement already. Those little slits make it look very jail-like... increasing the size of the windows will really change the character of the building for the better.

I'd love to hear the rationale for why it was originally designed with such tiny windows...

Riverman · #**5670** Posted **Feb 8, 2019, 4:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by bomberjet

^ We have our new Sutton Place photo contributor! haha

I find it interesting the piles are left sticking 6'-8' out of the ground like that. Seems excessive for them to cut of teat much steel. I wonder if they'll be formed into, or become part of, the actual building?

No those are shoring piles for shoring the excavation.

Andy6 · #**5671** Posted **Feb 8, 2019, 5:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by Winnipeg Grump

Someone call the Wahmbulance!

Well it got results!

bomberjet · #**5672** Posted **Feb 8, 2019, 5:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by Riverman

No those are shoring piles for shoring the excavation.

Ya just seems like a lot of wasted steel if they need to be cut down to grade. Contractors are usually pretty good about ordering only what they need.

Its hard to tell from the photo, but they stick up as high as the site office trailers from what I can see here.

Winnipeg Grump · #**5673** Posted **Feb 8, 2019, 6:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by Andy6

Well it got results!

EspionNoir · #**5674** Posted **Feb 8, 2019, 6:17 PM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

^ Nice improvement already. Those little slits make it look very jail-like... increasing the size of the windows will really change the character of the building for the better.

I'd love to hear the rationale for why it was originally designed with such tiny windows...

Probably because it was beautiful

EspionNoir · #**5675** Posted **Feb 8, 2019, 6:38 PM**

I think the metal cladding on the east side of Tower 2 is now revealed

cllew · #**5676** Posted **Feb 8, 2019, 7:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

^ Nice improvement already. Those little slits make it look very jail-like... increasing the size of the windows will really change the character of the building for the better.

I'd love to hear the rationale for why it was originally designed with such tiny windows...

I asked somebody that was involved with the building years ago about that, and was told being Doctor Offices they did not need natural light but wanted to have a constant electrical illumination.

I was also told there was more plumbing roughed in than a normal building to allow water and sinks for hand cleaning etc in more areas as the type of Doctor in each unit moved in and out.

EdwardTH · #**5677** Posted **Feb 8, 2019, 7:21 PM**

Is work still going on in the Boyd building? Looks to be a chute coming out the back...

cheswick · #**5678** Posted **Feb 8, 2019, 7:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by EdwardTH

Is work still going on in the Boyd building? Looks to be a chute coming out the back...

That shoot has been there for months untouched.

1ajs · #**5679** Posted **Feb 9, 2019, 7:05 AM**

do i need to do drive down and do a round of photos?

LilZebra · #**5680** Posted **Feb 9, 2019, 7:51 AM**

Wait until it warms up, like in March.

Don't want you to freeze ya little fingers.