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portapetey · #**4621** Posted **Nov 22, 2015, 12:03 AM**

Thanks guys. As I thought. It's really just one tower :-)

Jonovision · #**4622** Posted **Nov 22, 2015, 5:19 PM**

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Originally Posted by portapetey

Thanks guys. As I thought. It's really just one tower :-)

It's a bit tricky, cause they are also marketing them to potential office clients as 2 towers with options to blow out the centre and make it one large floor plate. Not sure why this is the case.

This is from really early this morning and you can't quite tell in the image, but there are two different tones of glass. The one pain on the left side of the inset is a different colour from the rest. I'll try to get a better pic when the weather clears.

IanWatson · #**4623** Posted **Nov 24, 2015, 12:44 PM**

Are you sure they're different tones of glass? I walked by this morning and they looked the same to me.

Jonovision · #**4624** Posted **Nov 24, 2015, 4:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by IanWatson

Are you sure they're different tones of glass? I walked by this morning and they looked the same to me.

I'll have to look again, but yesterday in the rain it still looked like it was a bit more green.

I also noticed that on the hotel tower there are only facade brackets on every second floor?

TheGreenBastard · #**4625** Posted **Nov 25, 2015, 2:28 AM**

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Originally Posted by Jonovision

I'll have to look again, but yesterday in the rain it still looked like it was a bit more green.

I also noticed that on the hotel tower there are only facade brackets on every second floor?

Definitely different.

EDIT: THIS IS MY FIRST POST. HOW DO I MAKE THE IMAGE SMALLER

Nouvellecosse · #**4626** Posted **Nov 25, 2015, 2:32 AM**

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Originally Posted by TheGreenBastard

Definitely different.

EDIT: THIS IS MY FIRST POST. HOW DO I MAKE THE IMAGE SMALLER

Imgur lets you shrink it by sticking l at the end of the filename before the file extension.

TheGreenBastard · #**4627** Posted **Nov 25, 2015, 3:12 AM**

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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse

Imgur lets you shrink it by sticking l at the end of the filename before the file extension.

Thanks!

Hali87 · #**4628** Posted **Nov 25, 2015, 6:22 AM**

I walked by today and the two tones are basically TD-green and 1801-blue.

IanWatson · #**4629** Posted **Nov 25, 2015, 12:21 PM**

I stand corrected. I walked by today and there are definitely two tones. I would say they're the same 1801 Hollis blue glass but some have insulation behind them.

worldlyhaligonian · #**4630** Posted **Nov 25, 2015, 6:32 PM**

Nice, that basically ties our glass palette for most of downtown together. I don't think one colour would look as good as this combo.

1801 level blue or more like the other blue on TD?

RoshanMcG · #**4631** Posted **Nov 25, 2015, 9:45 PM**

Looking good!

Jonovision · #**4632** Posted **Nov 25, 2015, 11:09 PM**

A few more to show the contrast.

Metalsales · #**4633** Posted **Nov 26, 2015, 12:07 AM**

The two tones of glass are because some are vision area and the others are spandrel glass with a backpan behind it. Usually at floor slabs are Or where interior partitions come into the glass.

A lot of new buildings are also using shadow boxes. Basically it is where you use the same glass units everywhere, but in the places backpans are, you put an aluminum sheet I front of the insulated backpan, giving a shadow look in those locations

worldlyhaligonian · #**4634** Posted **Nov 26, 2015, 7:27 PM**

Very nice looking glass, definitely ties in elements of other palettes in the city.

If International Place ever gets built, it should be in a similar blue.

Ziobrop · #**4635** Posted **Nov 26, 2015, 7:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by Metalsales

The two tones of glass are because some are vision area and the others are spandrel glass with a backpan behind it. Usually at floor slabs are Or where interior partitions come into the glass.

A lot of new buildings are also using shadow boxes. Basically it is where you use the same glass units everywhere, but in the places backpans are, you put an aluminum sheet I front of the insulated backpan, giving a shadow look in those locations

from the backside:

Jonovision · #**4636** Posted **Nov 26, 2015, 10:50 PM**

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Originally Posted by Metalsales

The two tones of glass are because some are vision area and the others are spandrel glass with a backpan behind it. Usually at floor slabs are Or where interior partitions come into the glass.

A lot of new buildings are also using shadow boxes. Basically it is where you use the same glass units everywhere, but in the places backpans are, you put an aluminum sheet I front of the insulated backpan, giving a shadow look in those locations

There is that element, but there are also two different colours being used. The bulk of the tower is the sea foamesk glass that you can see on the left and on the right is a more blue hue. This appears to be what will be used to highlight the varying architectural elements of the massing.

q12 · #**4637** Posted **Nov 27, 2015, 10:36 PM**

Via Global Halifax: http://globalnews.ca/news/2366643/small-...tPostID=c6df5c1a08831bbaf5784be7d4858535

Jonovision · #**4638** Posted **Nov 30, 2015, 4:00 PM**

Metalsales · #**4639** Posted **Nov 30, 2015, 7:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by Ziobrop

from the backside:

Hmmm...This must have to do with the new Energy code and the amount of vision area you can have on a building.

First project I have seen with the spandrel and backpan used in what could be a vision area.

Hali87 · #**4640** Posted **Dec 1, 2015, 6:48 AM**

Untitled by Hali87, on Flickr