TORONTO | Highrise Developments Compilation Thread

[colemonkee]

619 Yonge is a bit of a mess. There's no consistency or pattern to the color differences in the vertical fin elements, and their lack of pattern does not tie in to the mechanical penthouse enough (or frankly at all). And the seemignly random glazing pattern on the balcony glass has the same problem, and is like a poor man's Sugar Wharf Phase 1 (and that's saying something as Sugar Wharf is nothing to write home about itself). I won't even get started on the diamonds on the mechanical penthouse as they aren't anchored in the design anywhere else.

Honestly, they should stick with the simple, white vertical elements and the black window mullions all the way up on the sides. That actually looks quite nice. But these gimmicks gotta go!

[Maldive]

83 Bloor West | 269.05m | 82s | Parallax | Arcadis l pre-construction

This started at 72 storeys, was bumped to 80 and now submitted at 82 storeys. Now balcony-fied on at least one elevation. One of the 2 mechanical penthouse levels includes an indoor observation amenity.


UT

[yaletown_fella]

The removal of the curved elements in the podium ruined it for me. This has been value engineered into oblivion.

[isaidso]

+1

83 Bloor West went from a 9/10 to a 6/10. In its present form, it will be yet another forgettable residential slab. 619 Yonge is even worse. Are we building a bigger better Toronto or just more vapid stuff we'll be forced to look at the next 50 years? Often if feels like the latter.

[koops65]

83 Bloor W:

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[Maldive]

CIBC SQUARE | 241.39m | 50s | Hines | WilkinsonEyre l Phase 2 u/c

Money $hot.


urb@ndweller

just east of the creek


Alias | 158.69m | 48s | Madison Group | Teeple Architects l u/c

Church Street gettin’ tall.


GTAConstruction

UT

Across the street is The Saint @151m (47s). On the left in the background is 250 Church Street @ 166.1m (52s).


GTAConstruction


The James at Scrivener Square | 81.65m | 21s | Tricon | COBE, Graziani + Corazza l u/c


AlbertC

AlbertC

AlbertC

UT


Biblio Lofts | 28.91m | 7s | NVSBLE | BDP Quadrangle l u/c

Nice infill replacing a non-descript 2 storey building.


flonicky

UT

flonicky

[Maldive]

The downtown core looking north-west from the lake to Davisville Avenue (doesn't include all the development further north around Yonge & Eglinton or North York). Model by @steveve.

Crazy number of projects under construction ... and even crazier number in the development pipeline.


steveve

[koops65]

Crazy number indeed... there are over 200 high-rise projects U/C, with 30 of them 150+ metres.

https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=104429207

In addition, there are over 700 active proposals in the city now, with over 250 of them 150+ metres.

https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=104429236

[koops65]

83 Bloor W:

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[koops65]

Forma East:

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[BrickellBased]

Inconceivable the amount of construction activity in Toronto and apparently this is only the tip of the iceberg?

I'm still confused why the boom doesn't seem to get much mainstream attention. Toronto is pushing into the upper Chinese cities echelon and far past Dubai.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...st_skyscrapers

with data from

https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/bui...nada&year=2024

If you count AT, ST, and UC (architecturally topped out, structurally topped out, and u/c) is at 28 > 150m currently with a deluge of proposals.

Originally Posted by Maldive

The downtown core looking north-west from the lake to Davisville Avenue (doesn't include all the development further north around Yonge & Eglinton or North York). Model by @steveve.

Crazy number of projects under construction ... and even crazier number in the development pipeline.


steveve

[isaidso]

Originally Posted by BrickellBased

Inconceivable the amount of construction activity in Toronto and apparently this is only the tip of the iceberg?

I'm still confused why the boom doesn't seem to get much mainstream attention.

Does any boom get much mainstream attention outside of the multi-decade ascension of China or perhaps those attention grabbing projects in Dubai? Once in a blue moon, a story about Toronto's boom will air in Buffalo (due to proximity) or Chicago (their #2 skyscraper ranking being threatened). Perhaps in the lead-up to the 2026 FIFA WC, a country playing Toronto might shine a light on Toronto's growth but I doubt things of this nature interest most people.

First time tourists often quip in puzzlement why they never hear about Toronto so it's not just you wondering why. A big reason has to do with where media embed journalists. For he most part, world media don't have embedded journalists posted to Canada so they don't bother covering Canada at all. They'd have to fly a journalist in which costs money. It only happens in rare instances when a story is so huge they can't ignore it.

[koops65]

Postcard view in HD:

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[Nite]

Austin, Atlanta and Miami seems to get plenty of mainstream attention in English media and they dont even build a fraction of what Toronto does.

I put it down to Toronto being a cold winter city
In the minds of Americans and those cities in the states are on decline so Toronto, a booming cold city, is too much of cognective disodence for the mainstream media

[Maldive]

Yonge Street rising.

The One in the centre, 11/YV to its left and 8 Wellesley far left in the foreground.


j_yyz


80 Lynn Williams | 143.5m | 43s | Collecdev-Markee | gh3 l pre-construction

Market rate rental and retail in Liberty Village … tres skinny. Resubmitted with new arch-itecture ;-).


Northern Light

Original aerial/massing.


UT


Pinnacle One Yonge | 344.9m | 105s | Pinnacle | Hariri Pontarini l u/c

SkyTower’s residential floors have 12 sides, a polygon known as an “Irregular Dodecagon”.


rdaner

mburrrrr


Vaughan


CG Tower | 188.97m | 60s | Cortel Group | BDP Quadrangle l u/c

Nearly topped off.


yrt+viva+1system

UT

yrt+viva+1system

4th floor hosts a swimming pool.


HammerTime

[koops65]

Sugar Wharf:

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[koops65]

One Thirty Eight:

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[H2O]

Originally Posted by Maldive

80 Lynn Williams | 143.5m | 43s | Collecdev-Markee | gh3 l pre-construction

Market rate rental and retail in Liberty Village … tres skinny. Resubmitted with new arch-itecture ;-).


Northern Light

Nice concertina wire on the rooftop. I kind of go for that urban prison look.

[Maldive]

The One | 328.4m | 91s | Mizrahi Developments | Foster + Partners l u/c

Cladding one of the inset mechanical sections.


jer1961

Starting to form up the next floor after the recent column (and super-column) pour.


BloorMan

BloorMan

jer1961

A hawk inspects the super-tall.


jer1961


Fog shrouded Church Street with 5 new construction projects in the mist north of Queen Street.


cjkean


Artists' Alley | 121.91m | 39s | Lanterra | Hariri Pontarini l u/c


flonicky

flonicky

flonicky


2 very big (and very nice) mid-rises… one west of the core and the other to the east:

KING Toronto | 57.6m | 16s | Westbank | Bjarke Ingels Group l u/c

A project of this size could have been a nasty blockbuster on the small but vibrant streetscape of King West, but the large heritage retention components along King St. and the internal piazza-ish POPs that opens to the street, goes a long way to help this fit in despite its size.


thecharioteer

UT

skycandy

skycandy

thecharioteer

skycandy

skycandy

AHK

UT


28 Eastern | 45.4m | 12s | Alterra | Teeple Architects l u/c


rdaner

skycandy

UT


Mississauga

Square One District Phase One | ?m | 52s | Oxford Properties | Arcadis l u/c


Lake Ontario

Lake Ontario

Lake Ontario

[koops65]

793 Don Mills:

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