TORONTO | Highrise Developments Compilation Thread - Page 272

koops65 · #**5421** Posted **Oct 29, 2025, 9:06 AM**

It seems Forma and Concord Sky will be visible from inside Rogers Centre:

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ssiguy · #**5422** Posted **Oct 31, 2025, 4:06 AM**

The bigger the Toronto skyline gets, the less I like it at least from the water or Islands. The financial district had all different designs and colours and now it's all blocked by a solid blue glass menagerie.

koops65 · #**5423** Posted **Oct 31, 2025, 9:57 AM**

The Charles at Church - 165 metres, 50 floors, U/C:

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WhipperSnapper · #**5424** Posted **Oct 31, 2025, 6:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by ssiguy

The bigger the Toronto skyline gets, the less I like it at least from the water or Islands. The financial district had all different designs and colours and now it's all blocked by a solid blue glass menagerie.

Sure. It's tract housing now vs prestigious head office. More colours would differentiate one building from another but, can't say that would be a positive as the architecture leans heavy on sales pitch than art.

koops65 · #**5425** Posted **Nov 4, 2025, 6:52 AM**

Sky Tower - 351 metres, 106 floors, U/C:

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koops65 · #**5426** Posted **Nov 7, 2025, 12:47 PM**

Concord Sky - 300 metres, 85 floors, U/C:

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koops65 · #**5427** Posted **Nov 9, 2025, 11:49 PM**

Future view from the 8 Elm penthouse, looking towards 200 University:

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koops65 · #**5428** Posted **Nov 12, 2025, 6:45 AM**

Union Park:

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Maldive · #**5429** Posted **Nov 14, 2025, 6:34 PM**

Pinnacle Lakeside (Phase 1) | 174.86m | 54s | Pinnacle | Hariri Pontarini l u/c

Filling a big hole in the East Bayfront waterfront skyline (and helping to obscure the Daniels tower blight to the west).

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koops65 · #**5430** Posted **Nov 15, 2025, 4:49 AM**

A short flight down Yonge:

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Maldive · #**5431** Posted **Nov 17, 2025, 5:42 PM**

149 College Street | 205.41m | 60s | Northwest Development | Sweeny &Co l Recommended for Approval

Another 200 metre+ tower for downtown is now recommended for approval. Originally proposed as 845 student rentals (not sure if those plans are current).

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Forma | 308m | 84s | Great Gulf | Gehry Partners l Phase 1 (73 storeys) u/c

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

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ssiguy · #**5432** Posted **Nov 20, 2025, 11:16 PM**

Thanks for that journey down Yonge Street Koops65. It's a shame Yonge is so ugly at ground level.

koops65 · #**5433** Posted **Nov 21, 2025, 12:34 AM**

You're quite welcome!

Yeah, street-level Yonge is pretty gritty I suppose. Some like it that way actually. Others prefer more glitz and glamour. To each their own.

isaidso · #**5434** Posted **Nov 21, 2025, 2:50 PM**

It's not about demanding gllitz and glamour. It's about expecting a minimum standard and Yonge Street falls massively short. Is it really too much to ask that our main artery be free of ramshackle buildings, a chaotic mess of cheap gaudiness, have sidewalks made of a decent material, and that 75% of the space isn't paved over with asphalt?

Yonge Street is possibly the worst main street of any global city of consequence. For many locals it's all they've ever known so are blind to how bad it really is. Go to Sydney, Istanbul, Buenos Aires, Paris, Singapore, Stockholm, Tokyo and look at their streets. Then come back and argue this is anywhere close to good enough. Yonge Street is an embarrassment and has been for 80 years.

It never ceases to amaze me how many Torontonians have blinders on when it comes to these things (public realm, quality, design). Expecting Yonge to be glitzy and glamorous isn't on people's radar. What they want is a street that doesn't make them want to vomit. Yonge is, Front to Dundas excluded, an astoundingly ugly street.

Maldive · #**5435** Posted **Nov 21, 2025, 9:42 PM**

A view from the 100th floor (yes SkyTower is on 100) looking north to the (former) tallest building in Canada... yes SkyTower has now passed One Bloor West in height. Happy super-talls Canada.

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Gresto · #**5436** Posted **Nov 21, 2025, 11:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by isaidso

It's not about demanding gllitz and glamour. It's about expecting a minimum standard and Yonge Street falls massively short. Is it really too much to ask that our main artery be free of ramshackle buildings, a chaotic mess of cheap gaudiness, have sidewalks made of a decent material, and that 75% of the space isn't paved over with asphalt?

Yonge Street is possibly the worst main street of any global city of consequence. For many locals it's all they've ever known so are blind to how bad it really is. Go to Sydney, Istanbul, Buenos Aires, Paris, Singapore, Stockholm, Tokyo and look at their streets. Then come back and argue this is anywhere close to good enough. Yonge Street is an embarrassment and has been for 80 years.

It never ceases to amaze me how many Torontonians have blinders on when it comes to these things (public realm, quality, design). Expecting Yonge to be glitzy and glamorous isn't on people's radar. What they want is a street that doesn't make them want to vomit. Yonge is, Front to Dundas excluded, an astoundingly ugly street.

It at least used to have some character when all those neon signs were extant. But yes, for the main street of a major city, it is a bad joke. Other than fairly copious pedestrian traffic, it doesn't feel noteworthy in the least. The sidewalks are too narrow, and people just park their vehicles in the right lane to hop into stores or carry out deliveries, with impunity. I read that improvements to Yonge won't be completed (or started?) until 2030.

koops65 · #**5437** Posted **Nov 22, 2025, 10:29 AM**

CIBC Square - 241 & 238 metres, 49 & 50 floors, U/C:
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Maldive · #**5438** Posted **Nov 23, 2025, 7:13 PM**

One Bloor West | 308.6m | 85s | Tridel | Foster + Partners l u/c

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In the distance with Studio Gang's One Delisle rising the centre.

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Forma | 308m | 84s | Great Gulf | Gehry Partners l phase 1 u/c

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From the top of SkyTower (rising in the centre).

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East Harbour GO and Ontario Line Station | 14.35m | 1s | Metrolinx l u/c

A new transportation hub where GO Trains and the new Ontario Line subway converge.

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koops65 · #**5439** Posted **Nov 27, 2025, 3:42 AM**

Forma East - 263 metres, 73 floors, U/C:

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Maldive · #**5440** Posted **Nov 27, 2025, 4:59 PM**

405 Sherbourne | 120.1m | 35s | CreateTO | Alison Brooks l pre-construction

Market rate rentals (presumably an affordable housing percentage) and an institutional/community component designed by Alison Brooks.

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