Wow, those were wicked Ctrl-Alt-Del... thanks!

Just one question... what's with the bridge going into the middle of the River?

haha! Nice!! :tup:

Leftcoaster: The bridge going into the middle is what I copied from the East Village rendering that came out recently. It's a pedestrian bridge that sort of forms a C from above. The final design will be determined by a design competition anyway, I think. So it probably won't look anything like it.

I look forward to seeing the Toronto write-up!

Your best yet, nice work!

Awesome CtrlAltDel. You outdo yourself all the time.

You should send this along to as many people as you can.

Nice work CTRLALTDEL, and congratulations to Maldive for the upcoming National Post recognition!!

Vancouver will be absolutely ridiculous by 2030.

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Maldive's Toronto Rendering Article in the National Post...

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/b...e-divined.aspx





Our Skyline Divined

http://www.nationalpost.com/1312573.bin

By Adam McDowell



This is what the Toronto of 2015 will look like according to skyscraper geek Scott Dickson



1. Bay Adelaide Centre
Bay and Adelaide,
northeast corner
• Construction started: July, 2006 (including demolition of concrete stump on site)
• Completion expected: July, 2009
• Height at completion: 218 metres, 51 storeys
• Use: commercial

The first commercial skyscraper built in Toronto for 15 years topped off last September and is now being filled out on the inside with partition walls, ceiling tiles and fibre optic wire. The Bay Adelaide Centre is the fifth-tallest building
in the city, not counting the CN Tower.

2. Aura (Residences of College Park)
Yonge and Gerrard
• Construction planned: fall, 2009
• Completion expected: late 2011/early 2012
• Height at completion: 245 metres, 75 storeys
• Use: residential

The sleek Aura will take up 1.08 million square feet of space, making it Canada’s largest condominium building. Just a few metres shorter than the TD Canada Trust Tower, it will be among the five tallest buildings in Toronto when completed.


3. One Bloor East
Yonge and Bloor
• Work started: summer 2008
• Completion expected: 2012 (reported)
• Height at completion: 281 metres, 80 storeys
• Use: hotel (to be managed by French chain Sofitel) and residential

Following the demolition of the seedy yet much-loved Roy’s Square at Yonge and Bloor last summer to make way for Bazis International’s monolith, frequent passersby report little to no activity at the site in recent months. The company’s spokeswoman did not return calls from the National Post to explain.

4. Shangri-La Toronto
University and Adelaide
• Excavation started: fall, 2008
• Completion expected: mid-2012
• Height at completion: 212 metres, 65 storeys
• Use: residential and hotel

“We’ve had calls here and there asking, ‘Are you still under construction? What’s happening? We don’t see any activity.’ Well, that’s because we’re doing such an extensive excavation,” says sales executive Robert Leliever. “The reason the excavation’s taken so long is we have to go down eight storeys [because] we offer parking with all suites.” However, the crane will be assembled within a month or so. “The perception on the street will change significantly after that.”


5. Trump International Hotel and Tower
Bay and Adelaide, southwest corner
• Construction started: 2008
• Completion expected: 2010
• Height at completion: 282 metres (with spire), 59 storeys
• Use: residential and hotel

The project’s marketing director called the National Post last month to quash rumours that the project is delayed, and the site is indeed abuzz with activity as the structure slowly rises out of the ground (just don’t expect to actually be able to book a room by next year).

6. Success Tower II
Bay and Harbour streets
• Construction started and halted: 2008
• Intended height at completion: 135 metres, 41 storeys
• Use: residential

“Success is an address,” says the tag line. Not any more, it’s not. When the recession went looking for the first condominium tower to cut down in Toronto, it settled on the one with the god-tempting name of Success II. What was to be the fourth tower of a development called Pinnacle has been reduced to a one-storey stump. Last month, a spokeswoman for Pinnacle told the National Post that the structure “may be delayed a little bit. But that is quite normal in this market.”

Related:

The sky isn't falling

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/b...t-falling.aspx

The Sky Isn't Falling

http://www.nationalpost.com/1312553.bin

The grim economy may hush Toronto’s building boom, but the city you see here is still on its way


For the decade-and-a-half that ended in 2006, a concrete stump stood at Bay and Adelaide. The unfinished skyscraper, cut off by the 1990s recession, lingered as a token of its cruelty and of a lost decade of 
skyscraper-building in Toronto.


A symbol of the recent (but now concluded) boom times has risen to take the stump’s place since it was demolished in 2006. The Bay Adelaide Centre, a 51-storey edifice of steel and blue-tinted glass, will fill up with lawyers and accountants starting in July.


(Ryk Stryland, senior vice-president of development at Brookfield Properties, reports that the view from the top is “stunning.”)


So, the Bay Adelaide Centre defied the recession and got built. Now what? Will less fortunate skyscrapers be aborted, frozen in mid-construction, before the worst is past? The short answer is probably not. Recession or no, downtown Toronto will grow considerably denser and taller in the coming years. Though it was abruptly yanked out from under us, the recent economic boom’s momentum — coupled with the prudence of our lenders — will carry us through, says condo sales guru Brad Lamb.


Among residential projects, “The ones that were hoping to start won’t get started” in 2009, he says, due to slowing sales, “but anything that’s got a shovel in the ground, whether it’s a condo or a hotel, will get finished, and anything that’s an office building will get finished because it’s months or weeks from being completed.”
Other commercial buildings going up include the nearly complete 42-storey RBC Centre at Wellington and John and the 30-storey Telus Centre at York and Bremner.

Lamb warns they’re the last for a while due to the banks’ caution. “You’re not going to see any new office buildings in the downtown core for another six to 10 years. There’ll be a long gap in construction.”


In the meantime, Toronto is becoming ever taller and denser at its core. Today, 52 completed buildings stand 122 metres or higher over the city. Eighteen of these were “topped off” during the past five years. Seventeen more — mostly residential buildings — are under construction. And around a dozen more have the official approval to join them if and when the economic winds blow the right way again.


If it seems as though the skyline has changed a lot over the past five years, just wait for the next five. See Scott Dickson’s digital cityscape renderings. Portraying the Toronto of, say, 2014 or ’15, they reveal a city with a heavier cluster of steel and glass at its heart and extending along its major arteries.


These drawings require dozens if not hundreds of hours of research and work to complete, Dickson admits, including keeping up with developers’ changes in plans. “I’m embarrassed to say I do it because for me, a skyscraper geek and wannabe architect, it’s the perfect hobby. It’s very meditative,” says the creative director of the marketing and design firm Upside Down.


The renderings are just a taste of the labour to be expended on our skyline in the near future.


None of these buildings will knock the 298-metre First Canadian Place from its spot atop the list of Toronto’s tallest buildings, but some of the ones under construction will come within reach, including the soon-to-be-completed Bay Adelaide Centre at 218 metres and the Donald’s baby, the Trump International Hotel and Tower, at 257 metres.


The current recession will indeed cull the herd a bit. Near the foot of Bay Street, a new stump has consecrated by the downturn. What was to be the Success II tower, the fourth high-rise at Pinnacle Centre, has instead been shrunk to a single-storey clump of rebar and concrete, capped (meaning postponed) until further notice.

Uptown at College and University, the second phase of the Medical and Related Sciences project, dubbed MaRS, couldn’t find enough tenants and was put on hold last November. And don’t hold your breath to hear anything further about Oxford Properties’ Richmond Adelaide Centre 2.


For that matter, just what is going on at One Bloor East?


All in all, though, for skyscraper geeks such as Dickson, it’s been an exciting time to be living in Toronto. “In some ways, I have an evolving render in my head as the city is changing,” he says.


The change will continue, following a short gap. When the dust settles from the current recession, Lamb says a new condo boom in the Entertainment District will crank up again.


Within the box defined by University, Queen, Spadina and Front, according to Councillor Adam Vaughan’s website, 11 high-rises of at least 35 storeys are at various stages, from proposal to construction — 
including Lamb’s own 45-
storey development next to the Royal Alexandra Theatre, tentatively called Theatre Park. Another 20 or so buildings of at least seven storeys are also glints in some developers’ eyes.


In other words, Dickson has plenty of Photoshop hours ahead of him.


National Post
amcdowell@nationalpost.com

Photo illustration of Toronto skyline by Scott Dickson

LOL, "skyscraper geek".

Congrats Maldive. :tup:

Very nice! Congratulations Maldive, making the National Post is quite the achievement!

Friggen awesome Maldive. Nicely done.

That fool got published again?!?

Congrats and good luck. You'll be buying that Four Season's penthouse in no time ... or is a house on the 'brook?

The following large rendering of the Toronto East Bayfront project was posted by ProjectEnd at urbantoronto.ca....most of the buildings to the east of the downtown area (right side of the pic) don't exist yet, but this is the longterm plan, for what is an industrial area today...

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http://www.waterfrontoronto.ca/dbima...84b5dde632.jpg

^Ah wow!

That must be a government plan if they expect every building to have a green roof though.

The city could mandate it as a part of the application/variance/permit process.

Shouldn't be that hard, because in the end, it's a win-win situation where all parties actually benefit from its implementation.

As for the rendering:

Looks like a mini-European city .. a mini-denmark, or mini-Paris, or mini-Amsterdam....

I dunno. It's totally what would be expected to do with a large chunk of undeveloped land in a major city.

It soooooooooo works!!

I think there should be more tall towers mixed in. Its too uniform, and too short. The green roofs are a nice touch though. :)

Great work, Maldive. Nice to see some credit/exposure for your outstanding work.

Toronto does look fantastic in the rendering, and I would say it definitely looks more like New York. I however, dont see any similarities between that rendering and "Copenhagen", Paris, or Amsterdam. I dont think any North American city can ever look like a European city, as the majority of them lack high rises, with the obvious exceptions of Frankfurt and Rotterdam.

That being said, Toronto is definitely downtown Canada!
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Not historic Copenhagen, Paris, or Amsterdam, but this style of redevelopment of previously industrial land is quite common in Europe (Amsterdam, in particular).