TORONTO | Highrise Developments Compilation Thread - Page 145

uzi · #**2881** Posted **Dec 6, 2019, 5:40 PM**

CIBC SQUARE | 241m, 238m | 50s, 49s | Hines | WilkinsonEyre

pic by Sikandar at UT
https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/thread...5#post-1507708

Nouvellecosse · #**2882** Posted **Dec 7, 2019, 2:06 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Elkhanan1

^^^ What makes it so awful? Explain.

You could put it in a lot of places and it would be perfectly ok. Unremarkable. Not interesting, exciting, stylish, or attractive, but also not unattractive or offensive. But this is on one of the main downtown streets in the largest city in the country yet the project is just basic and non-descript. There's absolutely nothing elevated about it justifying its presence in such a setting.

Maldive · #**2883** Posted **Dec 8, 2019, 6:25 PM**

U need a vacation. Or new glasses.

Basic build but cladding that diamond excites almost every day. Party pooper ;-)

Nite · #**2884** Posted **Dec 8, 2019, 7:09 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse

You could put it in a lot of places and it would be perfectly ok. Unremarkable. Not interesting, exciting, stylish, or attractive, but also not unattractive or offensive. But this is on one of the main downtown streets in the largest city in the country yet the project is just basic and non-descript. There's absolutely nothing elevated about it justifying its presence in such a setting.

agree to disagree but to me TeaHouse is one of the top 5 nicest projects under-construction currently.

uzi · #**2885** Posted **Dec 10, 2019, 9:46 PM**

1071 King st west
https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/thread...e.17807/page-2

uzi · #**2886** Posted **Dec 10, 2019, 9:46 PM**

tallest one is 153m

uzi · #**2887** Posted **Dec 10, 2019, 9:47 PM**

3C Waterfront | ?m | ?s | 3C Lakeshore | SHoP

uzi · #**2888** Posted **Dec 10, 2019, 9:48 PM**

this entire land is part of the project and architects are Foster+Partners, KPMB, Claude Cormier+ Associates, SHoP Architects and KPMB. architect for the particular building is SHoP.

clubtokyo · #**2889** Posted **Dec 10, 2019, 11:02 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by uzi

CIBC SQUARE | 241m, 238m | 50s, 49s | Hines | WilkinsonEyre

pic by Sikandar at UT
https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/thread...5#post-1507708

Wow love the glass design!!

MN/WI · #**2890** Posted **Dec 11, 2019, 12:40 AM**

That CIBC building is beautiful. When completed and the sun hitting all those angles at different times of the day. Wow

Maldive · #**2891** Posted **Dec 12, 2019, 6:15 PM**

Yup sometimes great cladding usurps wacky design.

And another taller one will rise just north.

Photogs are already burning thro their digital hard drives. Fun to watch.

isaidso · #**2892** Posted **Dec 22, 2019, 6:33 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by MN/WI

That CIBC building is beautiful. When completed and the sun hitting all those angles at different times of the day. Wow

The latest round of proposals are noticeably better than what we saw even 5 years ago. Hopefully when we see these nicer buildings rise those other ones will become background. I suspect they will. Eagerly awaiting The One, Mirvish-Gehry twins, the CIBC north tower, and Union Park. There are a whole slew of shorter proposals/buildings under construction coming down the pipe too.

MN/WI · #**2893** Posted **Dec 23, 2019, 12:55 AM**

Oh I am so jealous of the the buildings going up in Toronto right now. Enjoy!!! I think you will have plenty more to follow.

uzi · #**2894** Posted **Mar 5, 2020, 3:27 AM**

110 Adelaide | 145m | 42s | ? | SvN

uzi · #**2895** Posted **Mar 5, 2020, 3:28 AM**

10 Wellesley West | 176m | 55s | CentreCourt | IBI Group

uzi · #**2896** Posted **Mar 5, 2020, 3:29 AM**

100 Queens Quay at Sugar Wharf | 117m | 25s | Menkes | B+H

pic by Rascacielo at UT
https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/thread...3#post-1536556

uzi · #**2897** Posted **Mar 5, 2020, 3:30 AM**

Sugar Wharf Condominiums (Phase 1) | 230m, 218 | 70s, 64s | Menkes | architectsAlliance

pic by richsherb at UT
https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/thread...2#post-1536496

the one in the background

uzi · #**2898** Posted **Mar 5, 2020, 3:30 AM**

CIBC Square.
pic by Sikandar at UT
https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/thread...e.674/page-336

Maldive · #**2899** Posted **Jul 30, 2020, 10:54 AM**

Think this supertall "half pencil" proposal from a month or so ago was not posted yet.

1200 Bay | 326.5m | 87s | ProWinko | Herzog & de Meuron

Render from UrbanToronto

Render from UrbanToronto

Foreshadowing the "half pencil"?: 1200 Bay got me to thinking about Pei's 1972 CommerceCourtWest... remember reading about the international attention the tower received from
architects and engineers (lots of it related to height-width ratios).

Though down right chubby compared to 1200 Bay, think maybe it deserves some props foreshadowing extreme height/width ratios nearly a half century ago.

Vik Pahwa shot from Flickr.

CIBC Square Phase 1 - 238 metres - getting its crown glass.

By mburrrrr at UrbanToronto

Connected above the rail corridor to its future phase 2 twin (deck structure already built/park amenities to follow).

Render from UrbanToronto

skydiamonds shot by skycandy at UrbanToronto

By evandyk at UrbanToronto

The One - 308.44m - Mizrahi Developments (Foster + Partners)

Finally reached grade a week or so ago.

Photo by Benito at UrbanToronto.

Render from UrbanToronto

SPOTLIGHT on Hariri Pontarini Architects (HP) – seem to have designed half the skyline make-over underway.

a) One Yonge Street u/c
1,025 ft / 312.50 m, 865 ft / 263.60 m, 712 ft / 217.00 m
Storeys 95, 80, 65

Podium construction by skycandy at UrbanToronto

Render from UrbanToronto

The 95 storey StarTower will top Foster’s The One to become the tallest in Canada (for a while)

Link

b) The Well by HP
Render from UrbanToronto

By AHK at UrbanToronto

By Red Mars at UrbanToronto

160 Front Street West - 240 metres - under construction

Render from UrbanToronto

By skycandy at UrbanToronto

1 Delisle Avenue by Studio Gang - 155.14 metres
Condo, Retail - Pre-Construction

NIMBY challenged but adopted by Council a few days ago.

From UrbanToronto

From UrbanToronto

11 YV | 213m | 62s | Metropia | Sweeny &Co

Render from UrbanToronto

Site demolition pic by AlbertC at UrbanToronto

625 Church Street

The previously height-challenged Church Street corridor is changing fast - this one is a 202 metre Rental building. Soil sampling hints it’s a go.

Render from UrbanToronto

Teahouse - 171 metres

Render from UrbanToronto

By Benito at UrbanToronto

Art Shoppe - 99 metres (right side of photo) and Pei-designed 2221 Yonge (193 metres) under contruction

By someMidTowner at UrbanToronto

T3 Bayside - first of 2 mass timber buildings on the waterfront is now underway.

Render from UrbanToronto

Aqualuna - construction start for this waterfront gem just announced.

Render from UrbanToronto

Render from UrbanToronto

KING Toronto by BIG

Render from UrbanToronto

Site clearing by Red Mars at UrbanToronto

MIDRISE MAYHEM
Shot by RAZZ at UrbanToronto.

I love the mid-rise clutter east of the core (home to St. James Cathedral, St. Lawrence Market etc.). This photo is but a slice of the facelift underway.

Dozens of new builds, many which incorporate logical elements of yellow, orange, red (even black) brick cladding. Lots of it is brick veneer but lots of it “actual bricks”… who knew that humanoid bricklayers still exist.

Black brick veneer on the 158 Front East podium you see u/c in the pic above.

Render from UrbanToronto

Maldive · #**2900** Posted **Jul 30, 2020, 11:12 AM**

Featuring some of the taller projects posted above - a partial make-over of a future render I did with Koops years ago. Just Bloor/Yorkville south to the waterfront (posted in City Discussions).

SMALL

LARGE RENDER

http://upside-down.ca/futuretoronto/July-2020-pano.jpg