Construction Sites In your City II

[giallo]

The Butterfly's exterior is nearing completion

[TorontoDrew]

Originally Posted by giallo

The Butterfly's exterior is nearing completion

Easily my favourite Vancouver skyscraper now.

[Maldive]

2 Queen West | 34.44m | 7s | Cadillac Fairview | Zeidler l nearing completion

Small… but one of the few good things Cadillac Fairview has delivered recently. Nice restoration and harmless addition on top.


AlbertC

AlbertC

Back in 1986:


TheCharioteer


Garden District Condos | 99.97m | 32s | Hyde Park | a—A l u/c

I’m a bit blown away at the result of this heritage reconstruction… every (usuable) brick from the rooming houses that were gutted by fire, was logged and reused. The entire site was demolished before reconstruction began from scratch.

Now it looks like the original row was just loving restored not rebuilt.

Before the fire:


Automation Gallery

Summer 2020 site completely demolished.


AlbertC

Back in summer of 2022 heritage reconstruction underway (with the tower cantilevering behind).


Benito

Today:


rdaner

rdaner

AlbertC

skycandy

[WhipperSnapper]

We usually don't see eye to eye on the meaning behind facadectomies. I agree with you they did well recreating the lost block at Garden District and the design of the development itself. It's about as good as it gets putting a giant tower behind and over a recreated block of housing from yesteryear. One can still imagine a kitchen where a kitchen would be and not a large but still deficient elevator core for a residential skyscraper.

[giallo]

1477 West Broadway (39f/mixed use) is close to being topped out. It sits on top of Granville/Broadway station which is set to open next year.
























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[MonkeyRonin]

Looks like they've really cheaped out on the cladding...

[LeftCoaster]

Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin

Looks like they've really cheaped out on the cladding...

That cladding is still going to be added, it just hasn't been applied yet, could be a supply chain hang-up or some issues with applying the 3D panels, either way I'm sure it's not critical path.

What you are seeing on the tower now is the backing that the panels will be applied to.

Here's a shot of a mock-up of a few of the bronze panels on one of the lower floors of the tower:


https://flic.kr/p/2oR7eVy by globalbusinesscentre105 H, on Flickr

[giallo]

^ A tried and true Vancouver tradition. It looks like some kind of reflective metal or paint.

[WhipperSnapper]

This tower elicits the skyscraper in skyscraperpage. The popularity is all about height. Everything else about this tower is crap. Cheap cladding. Ominous massing including a giant ass podium. It frustrates me as Broadway is a cool, diverse, organic, urban high rise street in part to redevelopment being achieved through true intensification than block busting assemblages. This one tower is benign. The excitement over its height relates to the precedence being set. The same applies to future tall development busting blocks for bland podiums that could be in anywhere like Vaughan Ontario.

It's not you guys. It's me.

[giallo]

The tower itself is nothing special, but it will offer a good amount of amenities to the neighbourhood. The curiosity about this tower in the Vancouver forums is more about much higher densities finally jumping over False Creek, and into the Broadway Corridor.

As for the current state of Broadway, that's subjective, of course. I think Broadway is a very ugly, and very under-utilized street with a ton of potential. You could raze the strip from Commercial to Arbutus, and nothing of value would be lost architecturally*.

*Ok, that's a tad hyperbolic. There are a few architectural gems in Mount Pleasant, but by and large, Broadway is not pretty.

[Maldive]

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


A Torontonian Now

Rascacielo

Reflected in The One’s glazing right of centre.


skycandy

[urbandreamer]

Reina on the Queensway, apparently designed by women. But imagine it was built by women?!
https://imgur.com/a/BeV6hvy

I rather like the historic bungalows and strawberry box homes north of here, and all the 1950s buff brick apartment buildings are beautiful between the Humber, Berry Rd, Stephen Drive and over towards Royal York. Really developers ought to be inspired by this neighborhood rather than the generic overplanned crap they build today.

[GeneralLea]

There's 5 tower's under construction in this image, though one of them is just out of frame, but the crane peeks in to the left edge.
Starting from the left, we have 2 condo towers (Untitled Toronto) going up, followed by the topped out rental building at 100 Broadway, then the rental addition to 75 Broadway, and a twin condo project going up right next door.
Dilliusionment, Insubstantiality by Josh Kennington Photographics, on Flickr
Altogether, this is 5 of 8 buildings going up along this street at the moment.

The first two projects I mentioned are here as well
They Rise by Josh Kennington Photographics, on Flickr

[Maldive]

KING Toronto | 57.6m | 16s | Westbank | Bjarke Ingels Group l u/c

Given this will be clad in a gazillion glass blocks, the last thing you’d want to hear is the glass supplier going belly up… but that is what happened last fall. Still searching for a new supplier AFAIK.


thecharioteer

Paclo

A ton of heritage retention along King with this project.


AHK

UT


8 Wellesley | Residences at Yonge | 182.15m | 55s | CentreCourt | Arcadis l u/c

Gettin’ up there pretty fast in typical CentreCourt fashion.


Benito

AlbertC


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

The crane on the left is for The Pemberton (215.8 metres)… which is still pouring concrete at the bottom of its pit ;-).


Benito


Lower Don Lands Redevelopment | Waterfront Toronto l u/c

Open for Business… lots of folks exploring the new Cherry Street and Commissioners Street bridges.

Short video on instagram … day and night.

Link: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2qlP...6-d4a36c60d974

globalexpress


Cherry Street North (x 2)


hawc

Cherry Street South


hawc

The 2 span Commissioners Street bridge


hawc

30 members of a bike group called Critical Mass had some fun exploring the new bridges.


Traycer

4 minute fly-over of the amazing work on new river valley and new bridges:

• Video Link
hawc

[WhipperSnapper]

Centrecourt could start a supertall tomorrow and still beat The One and Sky Residences to the finish line. 8 Wellesley has changed a lot from the rendering

[vanman]

Originally Posted by Maldive

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30 members of a bike group called Critical Mass had some fun exploring the new bridges.


Traycer

4 minute fly-over of the amazing work on new river valley and new bridges:

• Video Link
hawc

Awesome update. Would love to bike through this area once all is said and done. Last time I was in Toronto it was only piles of muck basically.

[WhipperSnapper]

I'll watch it on Netflix.

[MonkeyRonin]

Aqualuna is looking good. Lots of pics of it popping up on UT in the past few days:


https://urbantoronto.ca/news/2024/01...bayfront.55061


https://urbantoronto.ca/news/2024/01...d-pavers.55062


https://urbantoronto.ca/news/2024/01/ripples.55120


https://urbantoronto.ca/news/2024/01/bang.55063

[GeneralLea]

Yeah, Aqualuna is looking pretty good, I took this from the new Cherry street alignment on Tuesday. (I apologize for the amount of images, I took a lot of pictures over two days*)
Clouded Days, Downtown by Josh Kennington Photographics, on Flickr

I also took these of two projects going up by the Distillery District.
Cherry House
Clouded Days, Downtown by Josh Kennington Photographics, on Flickr
Clouded Days, Downtown by Josh Kennington Photographics, on Flickr
Canary House
Clouded Days, Downtown by Josh Kennington Photographics, on Flickr
The Goode Condos;
Clouded Days, Downtown by Josh Kennington Photographics, on Flickr
The Saint
Clouded Days, Downtown by Josh Kennington Photographics, on Flickr
From Monday
Artists Alley
Sunny Monday by Josh Kennington Photographics, on Flickr

[SteelTown]

Crane number 3 popped up this week for the Design District.


Source: https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/thread...9#post-2044957


Source: https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/thread...9#post-2044717

The proposal



I read somewhere that nearly 1/3 of the intensification happening in Hamilon is from this project alone.