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Originally Posted by Biff
That's a big beam on the shear wall slab. Looks to be four storey's in height.
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Originally Posted by BigG
Looking at the last cam shot, now that the steel is going up and the building is taking shape, I would imagine that it would be quite tall and slim compared to the Trizec, Artis, TD building.
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Office buildings can have wider floorplates than residences, so that's probably true. Offices can have cubicles, meeting rooms, common space in the more central parts of a floor plan, but in a condo or apartment, every unit needs as much window as possible. So at some point, the larger you make a floorplate, the deeper the units, but the less relative exterior exposure the units get ie the space by the windows gets used the most. Furthermore, bedrooms also need windows, as does living room space.
So now your units are getting huge as they get deeper and your cost goes up for space you don't particularly value.
In larger cities, there are siteline/sunlight regulations in place that mandate the maximum floorplate size beyond certain heights. I think 300 Main is thicker than most new approvals you'd see in Toronto or Vancouver.
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