Construction sites in your city/town - Page 199

Rico Rommheim · #**3961** Posted **Oct 22, 2013, 8:41 PM**

Agreed. The sooner those towers on st-Antoine rise the better. Barring any unforeseen incidents, the Bell centre should be obscured by towers on all sides in under 10 years.

SkahHigh · #**3962** Posted **Oct 23, 2013, 3:38 PM**

Deloitte Tower - 133 meters - 26 floors

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Rico Rommheim · #**3963** Posted **Oct 23, 2013, 4:52 PM**

Altoria is also coming along nicely.

by Anderson.

Dwils01 · #**3964** Posted **Oct 23, 2013, 7:34 PM**

Toronto
One Sherway Towers 3 and 4 on Sherway Gardens Road from Highway 427.

One Valhalla 1 and Thunderbird on Valhalla Inn Road from Highway 427.

West Village 1 and 2 on Eva Road from Highway 427.

Streetcar Maintenance Building on Lake Shore Boulevard East by Carlaw Avenue.

Library District Condominiums from the Gardiner Expressway.

Spectra and Quartz from the Gardiner Expressway.

The York Harbour Club and The Yards at Fort York from the Gardiner Expressway.

Ocean Club Condominiums on Marine Parade Drive overlooking Humber Bay.

Waterscapes Condominiums on Marine Parade Drive overlooking Humber Bay.

Liberty Place on East Liberty Street from the Gardiner Expressway.

Pictures by me.

Robertpuant · #**3965** Posted **Oct 23, 2013, 7:46 PM**

It's nice to see under-reported Toronto projects on here. Also, Altoria is looking good!

Innsertnamehere · #**3966** Posted **Oct 23, 2013, 8:41 PM**

The building on lakeshore isn't for the Pan Ams, It's the new streetcar maintenance yard.

matt602 · #**3967** Posted **Oct 23, 2013, 11:26 PM**

That thing looks absolutely gigantic for a streetcar maintenance yard.

Innsertnamehere · #**3968** Posted **Oct 24, 2013, 2:32 AM**

it will hold something like 140 streetcars out of the 208 new ones, which are 30 meters long... it will be huge. Toronto has a huge streetcar network. Not only are the new streetcars much larger, they will be closing one of the existing streetcar yards once the old CLRVs are phased out.

davidivivid · #**3969** Posted **Oct 24, 2013, 2:45 AM**

New pavilion of the Museum of Fine Arts

Chadillaccc · #**3970** Posted **Oct 24, 2013, 2:49 AM**

Hey Davidivivid, is CJD II done yet?

Martin Mtl · #**3971** Posted **Oct 24, 2013, 12:59 PM**

Altoria

I Will See You In A Next Life by Michel VanVorstenbos on Flickr

Chadillaccc · #**3972** Posted **Oct 24, 2013, 2:02 PM**

That looks sweet. Kind of like the view of the Marine Building down Hastings Street in Van.

leftimage · #**3973** Posted **Oct 24, 2013, 5:01 PM**

Altoria will be the jewel in the crown of the "new" McGill street. An amazing transformation over the course of 10 years !

Rico Rommheim · #**3974** Posted **Oct 24, 2013, 5:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

That looks sweet. Kind of like the view of the Marine Building down Hastings Street in Van.

Exactly what I thought of too.

For a city its size and age, Montreal has a striking lack of terminated vistas. This will help change this defect, I think.

Chadillaccc · #**3975** Posted **Oct 24, 2013, 5:58 PM**

Yeah for sure. I wish Calgary had even just one leading up to a nice tall tower. Unfortunately our downtown is total "grid". I'm sure Altoria will turn out great.

yaletown_fella · #**3976** Posted **Oct 24, 2013, 6:04 PM**

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Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

Yeah for sure. I wish Calgary had even just one leading up to a nice tall tower. Unfortunately our downtown is total "grid". I'm sure Altoria will turn out great.

Unfortunately, many such streets terminuses in Toronto are wasted opportunities (the lousy condo at the end of Adelaide when you're in the CBD looking east)
City Hall on Bay is one of the few good examples I can think of.

Vancouver's marine building will unarguably be most stunning high-density view terminus once the skinny glass office tower addition is complete.

leftimage · #**3977** Posted **Oct 24, 2013, 6:21 PM**

Griffintown construction in full swing.

Nordelec construction in foreground, western edge of Montreal's downtown skyline in background (soon to be filled with a half-dozen new towers)

The_Architect · #**3978** Posted **Oct 24, 2013, 7:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by yaletown_fella

Unfortunately, many such streets terminuses in Toronto are wasted opportunities (the lousy condo at the end of Adelaide when you're in the CBD looking east)
City Hall on Bay is one of the few good examples I can think of.

Adelaide the other way is a good terminus:

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And then there's City Hall as you mentioned, York Street would be if the trees in front of Osgoode Hall were trimmed, University Ave, Avenue Road if the trees were trimmed as well, Spadina Avenue, Lake Shore Boulevard West, John Street (looks better in person), Bremner Boulevard, the most famous one on Front Street, The Esplanade (admittedly will look better after L Tower and Backstage are completed), Strachan (admittedly would have looked better if Trinity College was still there), etc. etc. I'm too lazy to look for more.

Ramako · #**3979** Posted **Oct 24, 2013, 8:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by The_Architect

Adelaide the other way is a good terminus:

The problem with the western Adelaide terminus is that Adelaide is a one-way street going east. Nobody in a car ever sees it.

SignalHillHiker · #**3980** Posted **Oct 24, 2013, 8:10 PM**

October 23, 2013

351 and Fortis: