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The developer of Debut Waterfront Residences in Barrie literally took the scariest block in Barrie, far from the waterfront, and sold it to idiotic foreign investors lol.
https://i.postimg.cc/wRJWM9CP/20240428-183043.jpg

From across the bay
https://i.postimg.cc/fV0xhHh2/20240428-181651.avif

Junction Point: beautiful design wasted on a subpar neighborhood/terrible intersection with traffic and especially GO train noise
https://i.postimg.cc/pyGQ3xNm/20240430-191301.avif

https://i.postimg.cc/SJ9XVpmF/20240430-191140.avif

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Podium is only going to get worse. 43 storey tower in Kelowna? Who cares when they look like this! Kelowna can't do underground parking as with the other 43 storey tower going up. It's not the geology. It's the local engineers; none drafted in the first round ... or the second.

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Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper (Post 10196946)

I'm sure they have the know-how. I assume (with no knowledge of the project) that the developer doesn't want to pay for that much excavation. Maybe they're close to the water table too, given the proximity to the lake? Of course, anything is possible $$$.

Crane count: while numbers have a diminished a bit with projects topping out, there are still 183 active cranes in the City of Toronto and another 41 in Mississauga/Peel.

50 Scollard | 147.62m | 41s | Lanterra | Foster + Partners l u/c

https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/attach...9-jpeg.560575/
Benito
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Benito

Already skinny with 14 floors still to go.

https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/attach...4-jpeg.559581/
Johnny Au
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Rascacielo
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UT

Queen & Ashbridge | 60.15m | 17s | Context Development | Teeple Architects l u/c

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TwinHuey

Red brick going in along Queen Street.

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flonicky
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TwinHuey

Valhalla Village | 122.09m | 37s | KingSett Capital | BDP Quadrangle l u/c

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drum118
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UT
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UT

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Originally Posted by Zeej (Post 10197159)

It's in reference to the other 43 storey ... the only multi-level deep excavation in the city ... causing surrounding properties to slump.

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Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper (Post 10197327)

It's in reference to the other 43 storey ... the only multi-level deep excavation in the city ... causing surrounding properties to slump.

Well then. Hard to argue that one.

Reality is more entertaining than fiction

Kelowna is going down the wrong path with tall tower developments that belong in Brickell, Miami.

The Saint | 151m | 47s | Minto Group | Wallman Architects l u/c

Raising the roof. The gang from Minto celebrate The Saint topping out.

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UT
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Northern Light

Not a bird on the wire(s).

https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/attach...8-jpeg.560743/
ProjectEnd

Setting aside, Kelowna does have a lot of parallels with Kitchener Waterloo. Like really hideous generic towers on parking podiums,acres of parking lots and endless suburban sprawl.

Limberlost is limberfound. Turned out great except for the bridge. It's not on the main street facade.

252 Church | 166.1m | 52s | CentreCourt | Arcadis l u/c

The Sterling Bank looking good on the corner.

https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/attach...5-jpeg.561389/
deerparker

No surprise that this CentreCourt project is flying upwards (like 8 Wellesley).

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AHK
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Northern Light
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Riseth
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Johnny Au

Quay House | 73.15m | 21s | Empire | Kirkor l u/c

Kirkor and Empire sure ain’t the dream team and thankfully well-hidden in this waterfront view… and covering up a chunk of Daniels twin turds!, so props for that.

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skycandy
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skycandy
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dufferin1
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tripwire
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ADRM

TeaHouse 501 Yonge Condominiums | 170.98m | 52s | Lanterra | a—A l complete

Finally getting more retailers here including a Good Life Fitness in the below grade levels... which actually straddle the Yonge Subway.

https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/attach...og-jpg.559621/
busybeavy
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AlbertC

Throwback 2017: building a two tower complex on Yonge right on top of the subway.

Columns surround the subway tunnel as the transfer slab above begins construction.

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jozl

Beams on the transfer slab create a bridge across the subway which will transfer the weight of the towers back down to bedrock.

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Benito

The Manderley Condominiums | 34m | 12s | Nova Ridge | Arcadis l u/c

Yet another nice mid-rise on Kingston Road… which is quickly becoming the KING of mid-rises, with dozens of built, u/c and proposed.

https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/attach...6-jpeg.561367/
TwinHuey
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Twin Huey
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TwinHuey

Lower Don Lands Redevelopment | Waterfront Toronto l u/c

This gorgeous Wilkinson Eyre pedestrian bridge design called “Equinox” was won the international design competition for a new pedestrian connecting Quayside to the new parks of Villiers Island over the Keating Channel.

Indigenous consultants Two Row Architect and Zeidler were on the design team. The orientation of the bridge’s curves align with the summer solstice sunset and the winter solstice sunrise. The Feds have kicked in $9million towards construction.

https://www.waterfrontoronto.ca/site...?itok=6zSnBa8y
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The Cherry Street South bridge with the western plug between the new Don River and the harbour almost completely removed.

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skycandy

Early kayaker visit to Canoe Cove.

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skycandy

The winning design also complements the curves of all the other new bridges. Below you can glimpse the Cherry Street twins and the 2 span Commissioners Street Bridge, in front of the of the large Pinewood Studios complex on the eastern part of the Portlands.

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mburrrrr
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Rascacielo

8 Elm | 218.2m | 69s | Reserve Properties | Arcadis l u/c

The tallest of the 3 cranes in the centre below (the one kissing the CN Tower ;-). The other 2 cranes are Concord Sky @ 300 metres.

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steveve
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UT
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UT

11 YV | 213m | 62s | Metropia | Sweeny &Co l 11 YV | 213m | 62s | Metropia | Sweeny&Co l u/c

Beginning to soar from this pov. The sloth known as "The Pemberton" (215.8 metres) still well below grade on the left.

https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/attach...2-jpeg.561899/
Benito
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BloorMan

55C: 55 Charles Condos | 167m | 50s | MOD Developments | a—A l u/c

https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/attach...4-jpeg.560578/
Benito
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Benito

Nothing original over the design. Added bonus have to walk twice as far as the river's actual width.

The solstice thing may just be the best trivia in a Toronto design competition ever.

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