Toronto is derived from the Mohawk word tkaronto, meaning “where there are (tall) trees standing in the water”.
In the next 5 or 6 years or so... this photo below - from the centre to the right - will add 312.5m, 299m, 290m, 260m (and possibly One Yonge @ 264m and others) … the waterfront materializing the (foreshadowing?) of its word origins: tkaronto.
Speeding up now (another pour) unlike its 2 tower “The Pemberton” neighbour, where they are on week 11 of just pushing the same dirt around in a very big hole.
Eight Cumberland @ 170 metres. The third of three projects underway side by side by side on little ole Cumberland Avenue. Destined be one of the tallest short streets in the country.
400 King West | 157.37m | 48s | Plaza | BDP Quadrangle l excavation
Building a construction staging platform. tstormers UT
Didn’t realize they had already excavated quite this much… a lot deeper to go. tstormers
A welcome red/orange and white interruption among its bland neighbours. UT
The Ivy | 110.33m | 34s | Tricon | Graziani + Corazza l u/c
Absolutely dreadful cladding, behind this beautiful heritage building on Yonge. We knew the architects often served up lousy designs, and now we know the developer Tricon is chipping in to make matters worse.
Bargain basement results guaranteed. One of the most significant blown marriages of heritage + new tower I can think of. Ooof.
412 Spark St in Ottawa. I'm really excited for this fat 18 story tower up on the ridge because it will block much of the view of the ugly concrete jungle behind it from many important vantagepoints.
The Well | 174.03m | 46s | RioCan | Hariri Pontarini l u/c
The main podium shaping up nicely. On the lower right in the pic below, you can see installation underway for one of a number of LED screens throught out the project.
Dark re/brown brick of the westerly podium. Red Mars
Water's Edge at the Cove | 182.26m | 56s | Conservatory Group | Richmond Architects l u/c
No idea who is paying the bills now to complete this latest addition to the Humber Bay skyline. Due to family-in-fighting (and other things no doubt) Conservatory Group was ordered liquidated and sold last summer
(holdings valued as much as $4 Billion at the time).
The residential tower and a 5 storey office building u/c. kd86 UT
Surrounded by Humber Bay towers, the construction site is just visible above the trees right of centre.
I like the hand and foot holes for giants to grab up close on the curved sides. It doesn't look as good from afar. I like the curtain wall/ mullion design as well. Something went wrong on the W Cordova side though.
320 Granville would have been a real looker if they had used those vertical terracotta-coloured elements seen on the mini-podium... all the way up the tower.
__________________ circa 2008: home of the 3rd best skyline in N.A. +++circa 2028: home of the 2nd best skyline in N.A. (T-Dot)
320 Granville would have been a real looker if they had used those vertical terracotta-coloured elements seen on the mini-podium... all the way up the tower.
Indeed. The shape could be unique in Vancouver however, Toronto has its fair share of Tulip shaped towers and it looks like any number of them in the last image. It's hard to see it from an unique perspective.
Looking tall from the valley, driving down the DVP. tstormers Domenico
IMMIX | 131.06m | 38s | QuadReal | a—A l u/c
In many places a 38 storey building would look rather tall, but not looking south down Yonge from Bloor Street.
The u/c tower is in the centre of the photo and you can just glimpse the best element of the development… the restored clock tower still shrouded in white tarps to the left at street level.
Can’t wait to see the restoration. Johnny Au
The clock tower peaking through the scaffolding. ndawgg
The clock tower beside the strange “ghost” building (still don’t know what it is… maybe art or a nod to a lost building?).
The Well looking south-east: the planning poster child for the pethora of shopping centre redevelopment plans underway all over the city.
With so many city shopping centres planning huge redevelopments, they should be looking to this as a case study on how to build massive mixed-use communitys from scratch (many plans are little more than "towers in a park" - "parking lots" actually).
The Well Mix: high-rise office tower (employment), high-rise residential (with a mix of condo and rentals) sitting on gorgeous mixed-use podiums, mid-rise tiered residential stepping down to human scale/public realm… all knitted together by a weather-protected network of gallerias/atriums.
The Stack is one of the better shifting boxes (of the hundreds that are appearing), in part due to mixing up the curtain-wall on different volumes. Much more interesting to the eye.
The giant inverted V triangle supporting a small cantilever at grade looks like engineering over-kill... but I dig it.
Hyatt Place / The 203 Residences on Jarvis | 108.2m | 32s | Manga | IBI Group l u/c
This is starting to look as good as the wacky renderings.
Time and Space Condos | 101.8m | 29s | Pemberton | Wallman Architects l u/c
The Pemberton Borg™ continues to munch on an entire city block while its 2 towers at the north end keep rising. Somewhat shockingly, a few people who live in the neighbourhood like it.
At least the nearly 3,000 future residents who have been assimilated will keep the St. Lawrence Market and its new sibling u/c across the street busy.
In this post by Raw Design, they are wisely using an extreme angle of the balconies to obscure terrible window-wall (not all their fault, they drew something better).
261 Queen East | 112.95m | 33s | Tricon | Hariri Pontarini l demolition/site prep
Technically not u/c but demolition completed and graded/prepped on a portion of the site… maybe just for a sales centre or perhaps staging for more demolition?
Check out that row of heritage stock at the top of the photo. Justelena
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