Canada's 10 Tallest U/C - Page 414

WhipperSnapper · #**8261** Posted **Feb 7, 2023, 11:38 PM**

We could have a 100 storey tower in Toronto. Can you believe New York only has Empire State? It's also stretching the definition of a floor to get to 102. Chicago's newest should have an asterisk as well. It's like 101 floors above dirt however, it's built in a neighbourhood that has everything (streets/ pedestrian walkways) elevated five floors. The lobby/ ground/ 1st floor is the 6th floor above dirt. The height is from dirt too.

Maldive · #**8262** Posted **Feb 8, 2023, 3:22 PM**

Concord Sky | 298.99m | 85s | Concord Adex | a—A l u/c

So it begins. Never thought this would actually happen but (is it a supertall? ;-) Concord Sky finally got its crane base.

Bulloch

UT

For many months excavators were picking away at the site (rather like The Pemberton in Yorkville).

Johnny Au

The One | 338.3m | 94s | Mizrahi Developments | Foster + Partners l u/c

New floor formed up with rebar work underway.

BloorMan

Northern Light

Northern Light

Video tour inside the belly of the beast (beneath the SkyBuild self-climbing elevators):

https://youtu.be/yAwNb4DIkGc

TorontoDrew · #**8263** Posted **Feb 8, 2023, 3:58 PM**

The One will be Vancouver Quality at a Toronto scale. It's great that Yorkville is growing more organically due to lack of building sites and developers are choosing good designs to stand out. Unlike larger plots of land where one developer purchases it and things never turn out as good as they should.

WhipperSnapper · #**8264** Posted **Feb 8, 2023, 4:09 PM**

The location of Concord Sky may have limits on dump truck operations. It could be a slow rise like The One.

TorontoDrew · #**8265** Posted **Feb 8, 2023, 4:13 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

The location of Concord Sky may have limits on dump truck operations. It could be a slow rise like The One.

Don't they have access to that back alley? That should help a little with construction speed no?

WhipperSnapper · #**8266** Posted **Feb 8, 2023, 5:36 PM**

You can't park in a Toronto laneway. Staging shouldn't be an issue. The site must be double the size of The One's. I'm thinking about possible road restrictions for trucks.

Maldive · #**8267** Posted **Feb 12, 2023, 3:09 PM**

160 Front West | 239.87m | 46s | Cadillac Fairview | AS + GG l u/c

Nice angle looking south that shows the way the tower angles away from grade, and the steel on top starting to form the ski-slope crown.

Red Mars

Red Mars

Quadruple angle steel connector.

Red Mars

daptive

The infestion of snakes (duct work) at night.

daptive

Maldive · #**8268** Posted **Feb 14, 2023, 2:48 PM**

Concord Sky | 298.99m | 85s | Concord Adex | a—A l u/c

Second crane base on site has now been completed at the north end (in sunshine). This is happening (whether we like it or not ;-). 299 metres on one end of the site and just under 301 metres on another end… is there a
CTBUH “Wannabe” super-tall prize for situations like this ;-)?

Bulloch

UT

Coldrsx · #**8269** Posted **Feb 14, 2023, 3:13 PM**

Great shot!

Maldive · #**8270** Posted **Feb 15, 2023, 8:23 PM**

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

Hope there’s a crane traffic cop at work in this tangle.

mburrrrr

Centre of the photo are the cranes of 160 Front West (TD) and just to the right, the cranes of CIBC Square 2 can be glimpsed.

ADRM

Cranes are right of centre in this great sunset shot.

jackattack

A peak at the core from the Union Station train shed.

Canadian National

Johnny Au

The One | 338.3m | 94s | Mizrahi Developments | Foster + Partners l u/c

Only 21 floors but already starting to soar.

Johnny Au

thaivic

TorontoDrew · #**8271** Posted **Feb 16, 2023, 7:34 PM**

• Video Link

GeneralLea · #**8272** Posted **Feb 16, 2023, 9:13 PM**

Today, the One:

Downtown on the Sixteenth by Draulerin Photographics, on Flickr

Maldive · #**8273** Posted **Feb 16, 2023, 9:32 PM**

Pinnacle One Yonge | 344.58m | 105s | Pinnacle | Hariri Pontarini l u/c

mburrrrr

mburrrrr

The One | 338.3m | 94s | Mizrahi Developments | Foster + Partners l u/c

Some great interior shots from a recent UrbanToronto tour. First one shows the scale of the (vertical) column-free “fruit” store retail space.

UT

UT

Exterior of retail.

UT

The 40 foot sheets of structural glass are fully self-supporting…. so all they had to do is attach them to the building with brackets.

UT

Corner hangers from the inside.

UT

Steel supporting the “event space” slab above.

UT

UT

Cut-out in the ground floor slab for a staircase and elevator.

UT

Link to a video tour of the interiors: https://youtu.be/O8Fik36lOzo

TorontoDrew · #**8274** Posted **Feb 16, 2023, 9:45 PM**

That render is so annoying, It make you think that room is about 30 floors up and in the entertainment district.

GeneralLea · #**8275** Posted **Feb 16, 2023, 9:49 PM**

More images from today, now that everything is uploaded. The Yonge street frontage is finally glazed:

Construction by Draulerin Photographics, on Flickr

Downtown on the Sixteenth by Draulerin Photographics, on Flickr

Nouvellecosse · #**8276** Posted **Feb 17, 2023, 2:22 AM**

Looks like really high ceilings.

TorontoDrew · #**8277** Posted **Feb 17, 2023, 3:29 PM**

That apartment building in the second last picture is such a mess. I don't like the thought of the hundred's of residence being forced out for a new development but purely esthetic wise that building needs to go. It has that extremely dated dead mall inside it and the property owners have not maintained the structure at all.

Just looking into it the name of the Property is The Charles Street Promenade and it's owned or by or managed for U of T to house students and their families. So technically if U of T builds new housing they could sell this prime bit of real-estate they own. The site is massive, 2x the size of The Ones site.

source: https://universityfamilyhousing.utoronto.ca

Something massive could go here and not have to worry about any shadow impacts.

WhipperSnapper · #**8278** Posted **Feb 17, 2023, 4:31 PM**

That would not fair well politically for UofT to ditch 415 family units to the market. To replace those units with new construction should be over $200 million. They won't get that for this property as, presumably, any new development would have to include 415 replacement rental units.

All things considered, tearing down 415 affordable units is wasteful. It's a mediocre modernist tower with a dark, dank retail mall. It's ugly. It doesn't have to stay ugly. There's so much modernization happening with buildings from this era across the nation that go virtually unnoticed over new tall proposals that may never be more than a computer generated rendering.

Nouvellecosse · #**8279** Posted **Feb 17, 2023, 4:49 PM**

In general I like the aesthetics as it has a sort of gritty urban heft. But it's not a great location for it in such a prime part of downtown.

TorontoDrew · #**8280** Posted **Feb 17, 2023, 5:08 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

That would not fair well politically for UofT to ditch 415 family units to the market. To replace those units with new construction should be over $200 million. They won't get that for this property as, presumably, any new development would have to include 415 replacement rental units.

What I said " So technically if U of T builds new housing they could sell this prime bit of real-estate they own."

As in they build replacement housing first before locking the doors on this structure. They may also be hanging onto it for future campus growth, who knows?