Canada's 10 Tallest U/C

[caltrane74]

One Bloor - 258 meters

Podium Balcony glass

[Chadillaccc]

Brookfield Place looking incredible!

Originally Posted by Design-mind

Mine from today.

[Daveography]

Stantec post-pour:



Short write-up about the pour here:
http://skyrisecities.com/news/2016/0...raft-slab-pour

Stats from the pour, via Stantec:
- Raft sits on 39 piles, 1.8m in diameter, deepest of which runs 80m into the ground (a separate source indicates that these may be the deepest ever used in an office tower in North America)
- Typically raft slabs act as one big footing and bear directly on the soil, but because of the height and loading of this tower, piles were also needed
- 760 tonnes of rebar was used for the raft slab
- 2800 cubic metres of concrete was used
- Raft Dimensions are 24m wide x 36m long x 3m tall
- Pour start time 5am, end time 3pm - roughly 10 hours
- About 311 concrete trucks were needed
- Pour rate was ~300m3/hr; ~33 trucks every hour
- Largest continuous pour in the city's history

[caltrane74]

488 university - 207 meters





The old brutalist cladding is almost all off..

[FrankieFlowerpot]

I had a tour of the interior at 480 last week. That basement excavation couldn't have been fun to do.

[caltrane74]

The most exciting will be steel construction above this.

[FrankieFlowerpot]

Is it steel? I thought it was concrete

[caltrane74]

Concrete seems heavier than the steel can support.

Steel would be a breeze, but I'm no engineer.

[FrankieFlowerpot]

Just had a look at the drawings there - and it will be a regular concrete addition on top of the existing tower.


edit: here's some pictures of the excavation that occurred under 480 University

http://www.shotcrete.ca/gallery/480-...--toronto.html

[WhipperSnapper]

It's a condo. There are no large expanses of column free space.

[caltrane74]

ok, interesting..

[caltrane74]

10 York - 224 meters | UrbanOptic - UT

[hipster duck]

^10 York is crazy. Anywhere outside of an East Asian metropolis that would be larger than Toronto, the land between an elevated highway and an elevated offramp would be so marginal that nothing would be built, much less a 250 m residential skyscraper.

[FrankieFlowerpot]

That off ramp will be down soon enough.

[koops65]

Harbour Plaza - 233m & 224m
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Pix by me today

[FrankieFlowerpot]

I dunno how many of you are members at UT but you should really check out the pictures of Harbour Plaza / One York by Mafalda Boy there.

http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads....8020/page-181

[caltrane74]

Harbourplaza - 233/224 by me

I'll check out that thread now..thanks for the heads up

[niwell]

Originally Posted by FrankieFlowerpot

I dunno how many of you are members at UT but you should really check out the pictures of Harbour Plaza / One York by Mafalda Boy there.

http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads....8020/page-181

Damn - those are pretty good. I wasn't excited for it, but One York has become my favourite of the latest crop of office construction. As the balconies rise on Harbour Plaza my opinion is beginning to change as well.

From the link above:


https://www.flickr.com/photos/jimmyw...y/26458412571/ by Jimmy Wu on Flickr

[WhipperSnapper]

Yeah, the towers are growing on me. The thing that truly stands out is Menkes is building these.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by niwell

Damn - those are pretty good. I wasn't excited for it, but One York has become my favourite of the latest crop of office construction. As the balconies rise on Harbour Plaza my opinion is beginning to change as well.

From the link above:


https://www.flickr.com/photos/jimmyw...y/26458412571/ by Jimmy Wu on Flickr

Wow I actually thought that was just a photoshop showing what the building's outline would be ghosted over the image. It actually looks invisible. It must be a bird killing machine!