Winnipeg | 300 Main St.- Phase II / 360 Main St. | ~142M | 465 Ft | 42F | U/C

[Spocket]

Originally Posted by bomberjet

The exposed concrete at the underside of the form is level 21. Half the height of the building. Even with the taller, first 2 floors, the top floor will also be taller for mechanical or whatever else. So basically double the height of exposed concrete and it's taller than everything else form my view.

Oh, I'm not arguing that it's not going to be taller. I'm just saying that extrapolating and then doubling the height doesn't seem to deliver the height you'd expect.

[rkspec]

Doubling height from the exposed concrete looks on par to Biffs skyline pic

[bomberjet]

hahaha I had a doubled height image just like yours. no need to post now...

[The Jabroni]

...annnnnnnnnd new page.

[Biff]

You will know when they will be doing the next crane tie-in as they will have to raise the crane climbing apparatus above the 19th floor.

[Malcsta]

does anyone know when they'll be adding more steel? or do they need to raise the crane first?

[BigG]

My guess is they'll be adding another set of steel columns before the crane is raised.

[bomberjet]

Any word on when the Earls space will be enclosed or anything move forward with that area. I haven't paid close enough attention to see if there's been any progress. The green insulating panels have crept out on the curvey bit. Not sure how long its been like that.

[GrammarSlammerBammer]

This thread is great right now because my two fav topics are "When are they raising the crane" and "when is Earls moving in"!

[buzzg]

Probably not a huge rush to close in the main floor. Earls target date is August 2021, so as long as it's closed in by winter that won't be an issue at all.

[BuildUpWpg]

Originally Posted by BigG

My guess is they'll be adding another set of steel columns before the crane is raised.

Certainly not much happening on site this week...they must be on a break after that great push.

[OTA in Winnipeg]

[Andy6]

Originally Posted by Spocket

Oh, I'm not arguing that it's not going to be taller. I'm just saying that extrapolating and then doubling the height doesn't seem to deliver the height you'd expect.

I still don't see how a 40 storey residential block would be more than marginally higher than a 30-34 floor commercial office building. As I noted before, 38-storey 55 Nassau is considerably shorter than any of those buildings. I guess there could be quite a big mechanical floor at the top, though. Is there an actual height in feet (or, if we must, metres) that has been given?

[drew]

The height in this thread title is accurate.

Right to the roof. I know cuz I took it straight from the construction drawings.

IIRC the top two floors are also a bit taller than the residential floors.

[Andy6]

Originally Posted by drew

The height in this thread title is accurate.

Right to the roof. I know cuz I took it straight from the construction drawings.

IIRC the top two floors are also a bit taller than the residential floors.

Oh okay that makes some sense if there are four or five quite high floors plus maybe a bit of junk at the top that they're counting. So wouldn't that be about 50 feet higher than the highest of the other buildings -- perhaps roughly equal to those two uppermost floors plus another floor?

[WinCitySparky]

Glazers and drywallers are holding the job up big time.

[Biff]

The Trizak/Commodity Exchange Tower/360 Main is 117 m tall and the new 300 Main will be 142 m. So an extra 25 metres or 82 ft.

[BAKGUY]

Originally Posted by Andy6

I still don't see how a 40 storey residential block would be more than marginally higher than a 30-34 floor commercial office building. As I noted before, 38-storey 55 Nassau is considerably shorter than any of those buildings. I guess there could be quite a big mechanical floor at the top, though. Is there an actual height in feet (or, if we must, metres) that has been given?

Here is the simpler way.It will be 42 floors not 40..............when 55 Nassau was built, they had 8 floor height ceilings.main floor not very high at all......These will likely be 9 ft ceilings which has become standard. Example...I am in a hi-rise from 1970 and we have 9 ft ceilings..I also believe in construction more space in height between floors..300 main = very high main floor and second floors & top 2 seem tall etc..Makes for a delicious sandwich of 465 Feet , 142 metres. Had 55 Nassau be built with this recipe, it would have been about 55 -70 feet taller making it similar to the current top 3 ...at about 432 feet.Would likely have been the tallest. Radisson Hotel, same issue..Built by standards of today instead of 83 metres / 273 feet it would have been closer to 330 to 335 feet...The average height per floor will be 11.07 feet on 300 Main as compared to 9.07 on Radisson & 55 Nassau. You will notice all new residential downtown are taller per floor than previous 1970 builds. 201 Portage used 12.85 feet average per floor. Almost a half a foot more than Richardson or 360 main did. Bell MTS Place on Main tower used 13.15 ft per floor.... Offices are almost always taller per floor, for ceiling height.

[BigG]

It looks like the images captured haven't changed since Thursday the 11th. I wonder if it's a glitch or if the cameras are being adjusted to frame the building as it will soon rise some more.

[dmacc]

The images stopped displaying all together for me.