Canada's 50 Tallest Proposals - Page 473

WhipperSnapper · #**9441** Posted **Jun 21, 2018, 12:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by TorontoDrew

Ha so I did. My brain was in vacation mode last December i guess. Selby 2, I agree with December me. I just noticed a blank on the front page for it and rediscovered it today. After Ansolute this might be the 3rd best tower in the burbs. Something like that would have looked great near the Distillery Distract.

Same model as Absolute. Build some banal clones than go all out on a signature tower. Guess it worked well in Mississuga for the developer. Why not do it in Vaughan?

GeneralLea · #**9442** Posted **Jun 21, 2018, 12:11 PM**

Expo 5 may seem better as a project to some.....like myself. I've taken a few walks around the Absolute towers.....and they're rather poorly done on the street level. The towers don't impress me, I could care less for their style of architecture, but the way they were oriented along that site could've been better. The plaza on the corner is small and next to two massive roads....Expo 5 will at least have a park right next to it and one larger road near it.

Fugly subdivisions of towers all around when you think of the lesser towers.

GeneralLea · #**9443** Posted **Jun 22, 2018, 2:51 AM**

44. 19 Duncan Street (Toronto): 186.5m / 612ft
Shoring:
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DSC_8018 by Josh Kenn Photographics, on Flickr[/IMG]

koops65 · #**9444** Posted **Jun 22, 2018, 3:04 AM**

19 Duncan has been listed as U/C for over a week... It's #19 on the 11 - 30 list.

GeneralLea · #**9445** Posted **Jun 22, 2018, 3:06 AM**

Welp, mybad. I put it here because the list says it's on here.

koops65 · #**9446** Posted **Jun 22, 2018, 4:34 AM**

Yeah, the diagram section is updated far more frequently than the first page of these lists...

uzi · #**9447** Posted **Jun 22, 2018, 9:35 PM**

I think the first page should be updated more often.

waterloowarrior · #**9448** Posted **Jun 23, 2018, 4:07 PM**

Latest renders and height increase for Trinity Centre at Bayview Station (900 Albert) in Ottawa. Preliminary sewer relocation underway and zoning going to Council next month.

232.5m / 65 fl (was 230.9m/65fl)
204.4m / 56 fl (was 192.7m/52fl)
130.7m / 27 fl (was 130.1m/32 fl)

Architect is GGLO from Seattle
http://www.gglo.com/

Thread
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=164924&page=23

Latest drawings June 2018
http://webcast.ottawa.ca/plan/All_Image%...lan%20and%20elevations%20June%202018.PDF

blacktrojan3921 · #**9449** Posted **Jun 30, 2018, 9:40 AM**

I've been meaning to ask, but where did you guys get the information about the current height/floor count of Commerce Court 3? I've checked Urbantoronto and the information there doesn't match up

FrankieFlowerpot · #**9450** Posted **Jun 30, 2018, 11:41 AM**

350m is to the top of the spire. UT don't count that.

uzi · #**9451** Posted **Jun 30, 2018, 3:34 PM**

councillor Katherine McKenny is not in the favor of Ottawa project
http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/look-up-way-up-is-ottawa-ready-for-a-65-storey-tower

isaidso · #**9452** Posted **Jul 1, 2018, 2:24 AM**

Not tall enough for her, I suppose.

uzi · #**9453** Posted **Jul 10, 2018, 10:36 PM**

staff report for commerce court 3. posted by insertnamehere on UT.

4. 56 Yonge St et al –QuadReal Properties/bcIMC –“Commerce Court 3” (25 King Street West (Commerce Court North), 199 Bay Street (Commerce Court West), 30 Wellington Street (Commerce Court South), 21 Melinda Street (Commerce Court East), 56 Yonge Street (Hotel Victoria)

The IMIT application was submitted on February 21, 2018 and proposes approximately 2 million square feet (64 stories) of new office space scheduled to be operational in 2025. The development is within the boundaries of both the current and proposed expansion of the Financial District. The building is seeking to qualify under the IMIT Corporate Head Quarter eligibility. They have submitted a confidential tenant memo affirming that a Letter of Intent has been submitted by the tenant and that they will meet the Corporate Head Quarter criteria. The prospective tenant will occupy 300,000 square feet. As mentioned earlier in this report the IMIT Grant would have been proportional to the eligible gross floor area. It is expected that this development will support approximately 10,000 jobs. The building is designed by DIALOG and Hariri Pontarini Architects. The developer is proposing to tear down two shorter buildings at Commerce Court and replace them with a 64-storey tower the exact height of the nearby BMO Tower at First Canadian Place. The two buildings would share the title of Toronto's tallest office building. The proposal includes improvements to the public realm including new Wellington Street frontage, a parkette at the corner of King and Bay Streets and will restore key heritage assets. Many of the design details remain under review as they have submitted a Zoning By-law Amendment application that is still in process.

travis3000 · #**9454** Posted **Jul 11, 2018, 12:37 AM**

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Originally Posted by uzi

staff report for commerce court 3. posted by insertnamehere on UT.

4. 56 Yonge St et al –QuadReal Properties/bcIMC –“Commerce Court 3” (25 King Street West (Commerce Court North), 199 Bay Street (Commerce Court West), 30 Wellington Street (Commerce Court South), 21 Melinda Street (Commerce Court East), 56 Yonge Street (Hotel Victoria)

The IMIT application was submitted on February 21, 2018 and proposes approximately 2 million square feet (64 stories) of new office space scheduled to be operational in 2025. The development is within the boundaries of both the current and proposed expansion of the Financial District. The building is seeking to qualify under the IMIT Corporate Head Quarter eligibility. They have submitted a confidential tenant memo affirming that a Letter of Intent has been submitted by the tenant and that they will meet the Corporate Head Quarter criteria. The prospective tenant will occupy 300,000 square feet. As mentioned earlier in this report the IMIT Grant would have been proportional to the eligible gross floor area. It is expected that this development will support approximately 10,000 jobs. The building is designed by DIALOG and Hariri Pontarini Architects. The developer is proposing to tear down two shorter buildings at Commerce Court and replace them with a 64-storey tower the exact height of the nearby BMO Tower at First Canadian Place. The two buildings would share the title of Toronto's tallest office building. The proposal includes improvements to the public realm including new Wellington Street frontage, a parkette at the corner of King and Bay Streets and will restore key heritage assets. Many of the design details remain under review as they have submitted a Zoning By-law Amendment application that is still in process.

Seems CC3 has found a tenant, but at 300,000 SQ FT that's a mere 15% of this monster. Still a ways to go. Nice to see they are making progress. Bay Adelaide N also has a lead tenant and that should be announced soon. Office towers in TO are exploding right now.

WhipperSnapper · #**9455** Posted **Jul 11, 2018, 12:40 AM**

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GeneralLea · #**9456** Posted **Jul 11, 2018, 1:46 AM**

Bay Adelaide North was more of something to expect to happen sometime soon.....but Commerce Court 3? Just wish they had a redesign by the very least.....and a height increase or variant from the current tallest. The parkette sounds like a really stupid idea.....but it depends how they design it.

mistercorporate · #**9457** Posted **Jul 11, 2018, 2:05 AM**

I'm mad stoked for CC3, Supertall office buildings downtown are my kinda sh!t...schwing!

suburbanite · #**9458** Posted **Jul 11, 2018, 2:46 AM**

Not a huge fan of the location for this behemoth, I find the scale of the current plaza quite pleasant. Would prefer to continue spreading some commercial density outwards, but this is bcIMC's best asset and they're going to maximize what they can get out of every square foot of buildable land.

Interested in the tenant though. Despite what IMIT stands for, the eligibility for a corporate head office is pretty generic and doesn't actually have to be related to "Imagination, Manufacturing, Innovation, and Technology"

kwoldtimer · #**9459** Posted **Jul 11, 2018, 12:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by isaidso

Not tall enough for her, I suppose.

She has issues with the height, among other things, but her bigger concern seems to be at street level - she describes it as a "wasteland".

WhipperSnapper · #**9460** Posted **Jul 11, 2018, 3:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by suburbanite

Not a huge fan of the location for this behemoth, I find the scale of the current plaza quite pleasant. Would prefer to continue spreading some commercial density outwards, but this is bcIMC's best asset and they're going to maximize what they can get out of every square foot of buildable land.

Interested in the tenant though. Despite what IMIT stands for, the eligibility for a corporate head office is pretty generic and doesn't actually have to be related to "Imagination, Manufacturing, Innovation, and Technology"

The redeveloment is replacing an exceptional groundbreaking design for a mediocre one. There's also the unsympathetic addition planned for the Hotel Victoria. The only hope to save the integrity of Commerce Court would be for the project to fail. It looks less and less likely to happen. This is sad news.