Refreshing a 30-Year old tower: First Canadian Place - Page 21

koops65 · #**401** Posted **Jul 6, 2011, 12:27 AM**

all right, thanks...

Dwils01 · #**402** Posted **Jul 24, 2011, 3:06 AM**

First Canadian Place from today by me. Looks like they are at the half way point.

caltrane74 · #**403** Posted **Aug 9, 2011, 5:41 PM**

Boy, so much going on this one is getting forgotten. -

Thanks for the update man.

Dwils01 · #**404** Posted **Aug 14, 2011, 11:27 PM**

First Canadian Place from the CN Tower, by me.

haljackey · #**405** Posted **Aug 28, 2011, 7:11 PM**

Progress

http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielle_scott/6089941012/in/photostream/

Calgarian · #**406** Posted **Aug 28, 2011, 7:22 PM**

I'm amazed how much better that looks, and how dirty the marble was.

caltrane74 · #**407** Posted **Aug 28, 2011, 7:29 PM**

The good news is that glass should stay clean for 40 more years...

Easy maintainance!!

caltrane74 · #**408** Posted **Sep 6, 2011, 5:41 PM**

New glass paneling on the base of the tower from drum118 at UT

Quote:

Originally Posted by drum118

Aug 27
Not to — ho on the new panels on the lower level and it could be the light as well not complete.

Thread here:
http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/showthread....non-Archs-B-H-Archs-Doyle-Prtns)/page138

caltrane74 · #**409** Posted **Sep 12, 2011, 1:09 AM**

Did my part today....

vegeta_skyline · #**410** Posted **Sep 12, 2011, 3:32 AM**

I dunno how I feel about the podium being reclad... its not that the glass looks bad, the marble just had a nice touch. Surely it couldn't have been that difficult to simply replace the old marble slab with thicker ones that wouldn't have deteriorated as fast.

dsim249 · #**411** Posted **Sep 12, 2011, 6:49 AM**

^ Or you could simply replace the old marble with a more durable material that will match the rest of the entire building.

vegeta_skyline · #**412** Posted **Sep 12, 2011, 8:10 AM**

meh. glass doesn't have the same class as marble.
Having said that, its not the type of material you use to clad a 1000 foot tall building(almost).

Dylan Leblanc · #**413** Posted **Sep 12, 2011, 5:22 PM**

I see TD Centre is also getting a paint job.

LeftCoaster · #**414** Posted **Sep 12, 2011, 5:38 PM**

Paint and new glass yes. As well a very expensive project, but no one cares because they are going to look the exact same once completed... just a wack load more energy efficient.

Flamesrule · #**415** Posted **Sep 14, 2011, 1:09 AM**

FCP is such a beauty. It's fascinating to see the difference before the reclad, and after.

Dwils01 · #**416** Posted **Nov 4, 2011, 3:37 AM**

Haven't had an update here in a while.
Some Pictures I took on Oct 31.

Almost there.

Looks like the podium is getting some new marble.

Can you see the difference between the old and the new.

Since there is no thread for this and I'm sure people don't want another Toronto thread, I'll put this here.
77 King West is getting a brand new look.

The tower is becoming black again, hopefully all the towers will get the same treatment.

vegeta_skyline · #**417** Posted **Nov 4, 2011, 4:51 AM**

Sweet! Thought they were going to skip out on the marble completely with the re-clad, good to see thats not the case.

Also, here's what was promised vs. what we got;

pretty close no?

Dylan Leblanc · #**418** Posted **Nov 4, 2011, 5:27 AM**

looks pretty close. awesome photo VS!!

haljackey · #**419** Posted **Nov 4, 2011, 5:34 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by vegeta_skyline

pretty close no?

I'll say.

Also, we got some weird green toothpick thing to the left. That wasn't in the render.

LeftCoaster · #**420** Posted **Nov 4, 2011, 1:26 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dwils01

The tower is becoming black again, hopefully all the towers will get the same treatment.

They will, all the TD centre towers are being recladded and painted. Only problem is due to the nature of the paint work it will take 4 years to finish as they can only work in very precise weather.