TORONTO | Highrise Developments Compilation Thread - Page 144

Maldive · #1 Posted **Sep 23, 2020, 2:05 PM**

The Taylor 121m - 36s

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The beautiful brick cladding.

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89 Avenue Yorkville - 76.5m - 20 storeys - pre-construction- clad in limestone and designed by Richard Wengle.

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Indigenous Hub - 48m and 42m (West Donlands Block 10) - pre-construction.

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33 Sherbourne (replaces a gas station) 129m-37 storeys designed by Giannone Petricone
(recommended for rezoning approval by Community Council)

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Galleria on the Park (12 buildings 3 to 42 storeys)
HPA “flatiron design” - 112m - 31 storeys - pre-construction

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Project render

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Home - 78m u/c

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Joining the east of Yonge mid-rise mayhem (left centre).

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Canada House 233m and 206m - 69 and 59 storeys u/c

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Tallest two in the mega-development CityPlace (aka Sh*ttyPlace by locals ;-)

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Another PJ Condos topping out:

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Maldive · #2 Posted **Sep 23, 2020, 7:52 PM**

Artists' Alley 122m - 113m - 59m - 39, 35, 17 storeys - under construction

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U/C pic

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Gorgeous day on Sugar Beach today... and a sweet view of 100 Queens Quay and CIBC Square behind.

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Nicest clad little “box” in the city.
100 Queens Quay (earlier in construction) 117m - 25s:

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300 Bloor Street West 104m - 29s (Condo, Institutional, Office, Retail)- pre-construction
Redevelopment of the Bloor Street United Church designed by KPMB Architects.

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The Rail Corridor - Deck the Hollow with Dream$$

1. Rail Deck Park - City-led Dream ($1.8 Billion or is it $3.8 Billion?)

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2. ORCA (Kingsmen Group) in direct competition with #1. Includes office residential.
South of The Well (Front & Spadina) and west to Bathurst.

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3. Oxford’s Union Park 303m, 262m, 210m, 164m - Soreys: 58, 48, 54, 44 + Rail Deck Park
A $3.5 billion, 4.3 million-square-foot, mixed-use complex on a 4-acre site - designed by Pelli

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Park over the rail corridor

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Maldive · #3 Posted **Sep 24, 2020, 5:52 PM**

More Toronto Portlands/Lower Don Lands news: Basin/Media Hub
The Portlands are already home to Pinewood Toronto, which offers 12 TV/film stages, (including the Mega Stage, one of North America’s largest purpose-built sound stages). Now CreateTO is seeking proposals globally from film & television production consortiums to develop a state-of-the-art film, television, and digital media hub on an 8.9-acre site (expected to provide up to 500,000 GFA of studio space and production offices).

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Pinewood Toronto Mega-Stage (built)

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The Portlands 60 years ago.

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Maldive · #4 Posted **Sep 25, 2020, 2:40 PM**

The One - First super-columns steel joins the angled steel.

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Maldive · #5 Posted **Sep 26, 2020, 12:23 PM**

Fog-bound Clover and Teahouse under construction

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Maldive · #6 Posted **Sep 26, 2020, 2:55 PM**

Freed Developments thinking BIG, east across the Don Valley Parkway from the huge Crosstown Community (Eglinton Avenue East at Don Mills Rd.).

175 WYNFORD DRIVE - Earlier this year Freed acquired this 5.42-acre site of Don Valley Hotel. On Friday he submitted a Zoning Bylaw Amendment application for 4 four mixed use buildings - 54, ,49, 47 and 45 storeys in height (189,863 sqm of residential, 9,832 sqm of non-residential), near the under-construction Eglinton Crosstown LRT line.

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BIG west of downtown.
In the spring Freed received approval for Grand Park Village in Etobicoke, a six-acre site across from the Mimico GO Transit station, featuring over a million square feet of development in multiple buildings.
Height: 57m to 103m - Storeys: 32, 25, 23, 16

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Maldive · #7 Posted **Sep 26, 2020, 6:27 PM**

6609 Stanley Avenue | 254m | 72s | Hariri Pontarini
Not in Toronto (across the lake) but I grew up near Niagara Falls so indulge me (and I have posted my a$$ off in this thread ;-) Thanks to COVID (and a decimated tourist industry), this will likely move from “approved” to “never-built” very quickly.

But the good news is it’s designed by Hariri Pontarini (think SkyTower) who have designed half of the 328,517 new projects in Toronto. I’ve started a GoFundMe website to help move the project to The Six, and maybe Drake will chip in (he could probably under-write this on his own).

The podium will obviously be re-designed as a much smaller cascading/tiered masterpiece (residents will overlook a much smaller ‘veil’ waterfall that bisects the podium, a nod to the genesis of the project).

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P.S. ^^ I know you scrolled through the eye-candy renders without reading my witty introduction.

Maldive · #8 Posted **Sep 26, 2020, 9:14 PM**

Canary Block Condos - 42m - 12s - designed by KPMB - nearing completion

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Great shots from Benito:

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^^ Note that the 4 people (2 dogs) in Benito's photo above, look exactly like "render people". Even the dogs.

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Maldive · #9 Posted **Sep 28, 2020, 11:11 AM**

The One - angled steel for the APPLE Temple.

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Retail entrance
(mock-up with cladding for angled steel above)

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Decking The Rail Corridor - ORCA versus the City - updated
Original ssp page link (posted near bottom of the page) >: https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/sho...80485&page=149

I completely forgot that ORCA (Kingsway Group) resubmitted new rail corridor concept plans for OPA in June 2020. This concept was designed by world-renowned Safdie Architects
and features 10 towers (6 are skybridge connected) ranging from 36 to 46 storeys, with park land to the south.

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Block 8 West Don Lands - 90m, 57m, 57m

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H2O · #10 Posted **Sep 28, 2020, 11:53 AM**

So tell me more about these rail deck proposals...is this some kind of competition?

Innsertnamehere · #11 Posted **Sep 28, 2020, 12:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by H2O

So tell me more about these rail deck proposals...is this some kind of competition?

Basically the city wants to expropriate the air rights above the track and build a park, while the existing owners of the air rights want to develop a mega-project.

The reality is that the owners have never built anything more than strip plazas on the edge of the metro, have been sitting on the lands for decades, and are looking to make the air rights look super valuable so that the city has to pay a pretty penny to expropriate it. Any development proposal on the lands is never going to be built and is purely for speculation purposes.

Maldive · #12 Posted **Sep 28, 2020, 2:51 PM**

Not a rendering ;-)
AquaVista (on the right) nearing completion. The glorious colours of the maples beg the question… how have they turned when it was +30 degrees when this was shot on Saturday (and my building management turned of the A/C days ago)?

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So many Aquas - site overview: AquaLina (left centre), AquaVista, AquaBella, and the best of the crop under site-prep, AquaLuna (site is lower right). They are all near the water ;-)

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AquaLuna

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225 Jarvis Street - 154m - 45s - (residential/hotel) - site demolition

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Demolition of the brutalist tower on-site

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Garden District condos - 100m - 32s - u/c

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334 Bloor West -118m - 35s -pre-construction

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293 The Kingsway - 8 storeys - designed by Quadrangle

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Entire site

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Maldive · #13 Posted **Sep 28, 2020, 4:52 PM**

The Great (truncated) Pyramids of U of T: Schwartz Reisman Innovation Centre- 20 + 12s - designed by Weiss/Manfredi and Teeple Architects - under construction

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Getting their cranes soon.

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The Macallan · #14 Posted **Sep 28, 2020, 11:41 PM**

I hope I am not the only one who finds it hard to remember which “Aqua” name goes with which project. I suspect I am also not the only one who appreciates seeing both the renders and the photos, especially viewed from the lake. FWIW I think each more recent project is an improvement on its predecessors as you move forward in time and east along the lake. I am eager to see project number four, Aqua whatever, go up.

Maldive · #15 Posted **Sep 29, 2020, 3:08 AM**

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Originally Posted by The Macallan

I hope I am not the only one who finds it hard to remember which “Aqua” name goes with which project. I suspect I am also not the only one who appreciates seeing both the renders and the photos, especially viewed from the lake. FWIW I think each more recent project is an improvement on its predecessors as you move forward in time and east along the lake. I am eager to see project number four, Aqua whatever, go up.

Lol, number 4 (Aqua whatever)is AquaLuna. And you're right.. with each successive phase they have gotten better: Phase 1 (AquaLina) was a bit of a fail for me, Phase 2 and 3 were much better (Vista & Bella) and the Phase 4 design (AquaLuna) is simply spectacular imo.

AquaLuna in the foreground (and other Aquas behind)

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H2O · #16 Posted **Sep 29, 2020, 1:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by Maldive

AquaLuna in the foreground (and other Aquas behind)

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What is slated to go in between the Aquas and the Gardiner? Something taller I hope?

Maldive · #17 Posted **Sep 29, 2020, 6:03 PM**

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Originally Posted by H2O

What is slated to go in between the Aquas and the Gardiner? Something taller I hope?

T3 Bayside 42m (10s X 2) - u/c
Two ten-storey mass timber office buildings, each containing approximately 250,000 square feet of rentable space.

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Maldive · #18 Posted **Sep 29, 2020, 6:18 PM**

Social at Church + Dundas - 165m - 52s - Pemberton - RAW Design - u/c
Construction - bottom left of pic

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Peter and Adelaide - 152m - 47s - u/c

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SCALA - 62m - 18s- designed by Wallman - under construction

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Scotiabank North Tower at Bay Adelaide Centre - 140m - 32s - KPMB - u/c
Easily the best of three Scotia-branded towers. Note the daring square floor plates.

Render (the exotic middle tower in the pic, Scotia Plaza behind)

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MN/WI · #19 Posted **Sep 29, 2020, 11:38 PM**

That church is cute. All these wonderful projects in Toronto. I'd be delighted to have a 10th of them in Minneapolis.

Maldive · #20 Posted **Sep 30, 2020, 2:12 PM**

For anyone interested in a bit more about the huge Portlands/Lower Don Lands 880 acre Redevelopment (SSP page link), CityTV just did a nice video progress overview including aerials of construction, time-lapse and more.
https://toronto.citynews.ca/video/20...-taking-shape/

55 Mercer - 155.5m - 47s - residential (really like the podium’s warehouse vernacular given its location)
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Sad days for friends and staff of Wayne Gretzky’s after 27 years, closing in October.

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125 George Street -149m - 39s - Diamond Corp - designed by Sweeney & Co. - pre-construction

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West elevation

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379-391 Adelaide West & 96 Spadina - 77m -16s - Allied - designed by Sweeny &Co - pre-construction
The 16-storey office development features a unique mast design that allows the new office volume to hover above the warehouse-style heritage buildings.

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Mast

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