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^ voided slab, or bubble deck I’d guess. Used to reduce the amount of concrete in a slab and lighten the weight of the deck. Same idea as a honeycomb deck but doesn’t require any forming
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^ voided slab, or bubble deck I’d guess. Used to reduce the amount of concrete in a slab and lighten the weight of the deck. Same idea as a honeycomb deck but doesn’t require any forming
Probably to create a pattern on the ceiling is my guess. There doesn't appear to be rebar below them, so they look to be purely in the concrete.
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This looks so big it loses context. This is like multiple skylines from cities like Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal and Vancouver stacked together. How many kms long is it I wonder?

It's still so strange to me that Toronto's skyline moves inland away from the lake unlike other waterfront cities like Chicago where they stretch along the shoreline.
     
     
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It's interesting how that yellow raking light looks so unique to Edmonton. Calgary gets a more orange light it seems.
     
     
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It's still so strange to me that Toronto's skyline moves inland away from the lake unlike other waterfront cities like Chicago where they stretch along the shoreline.

The lakeshore was traditionally industrial, so the favoured quarter skewed north - and the development followed.
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This looks so big it loses context. This is like multiple skylines from cities like Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal and Vancouver stacked together. How many kms long is it I wonder?
The continuous chain of skyscrapers stretches from the lake to about Ramsden park on the southern border of Rosedale, which is just to the left of that first picture. That's about 4 km.
     
     
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This is like multiple skylines from cities like Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal and Vancouver stacked together.
Objection sir!


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^ voided slab, or bubble deck I’d guess. Used to reduce the amount of concrete in a slab and lighten the weight of the deck. Same idea as a honeycomb deck but doesn’t require any forming
Interesting. Sounds reasonable. I have never been inside so I became curious and called upon google. I've never quite seen that.
     
     
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Probably to create a pattern on the ceiling is my guess. There doesn't appear to be rebar below them, so they look to be purely in the concrete.
Have to check it out.
     
     
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Maybe 20 years ago. For better or worse, there's no contest anymore in size. You just have to look at the numbers.
     
     
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Voyons, la TDC1 était déjà en construction sur cette photo, c'est quand même pas si vieux
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The continuous chain of skyscrapers stretches from the lake to about Ramsden park on the southern border of Rosedale, which is just to the left of that first picture. That's about 4 km.
For context, Fort Calgary to 10th Street SW is about 3 km. In terms of a continuous chain of skyscrapers, 10th Street SW to MacLeod Trail is probably a fairer measure: 2.2 km.
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For context, Fort Calgary to 10th Street SW is about 3 km. In terms of a continuous chain of skyscrapers, 10th Street SW to MacLeod Trail is probably a fairer measure: 2.2 km.
With the Beltline going right to 14st SW and East Village going right to Ft Calgary (6st SE), I'd go with 3km.
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Interesting. Sounds reasonable. I have never been inside so I became curious and called upon google. I've never quite seen that.
Googling bubble deck, it does seem to be used to reduced the mass of the concrete. I had originally thought of this, but dismissed it in thinking they could just reduce the depth of the slab to reduce the concrete. Very interesting, never heard of this system before, will have to research it a bit I think.
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It's still so strange to me that Toronto's skyline moves inland away from the lake unlike other waterfront cities like Chicago where they stretch along the shoreline.
Probably has to do with rapid transit. Chicago's "L" branches out every which way outside downtown while Toronto only has the North/South Yonge-University Line(s).

Skylines follow subway lines.
     
     
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Probably has to do with rapid transit. Chicago's "L" branches out every which way outside downtown while Toronto only has the North/South Yonge-University Line(s).

Skylines follow subway lines.
Transit followed where development had already happened.
Toronto grew away from the lake because that's where industry was located and the Don Valley made Eastern growth prohibitive.
     
           
     
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