I was downtown this weekend. Seems like every block is under construction, even more than when I was a daily SSP poster. This place is gonna be insane, for skyscrapers not many places will top it.
Indeed. Continuous blocks of densely packed skyscrapers will be hard to top after the current crop under construction is built and the next crop is going ahead despite the gloom of interest rates.
The 2 patterned residential towers and completed office building, with the large Phase 2 site demolition/heritage retention site (3 towers) in the foreground.
Looks like M3 is trying to run away from those zig-zaggy other towers...I don't like them either.
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"But a city can be smothered by too much reverence for its past. The skyline must keep acquiring new peaks, because the day we consider it complete and untouchable is the day the city begins to die." - Justin Davidson - May 2010 Issue of New York
The dearth of comments in this thread (which, like this website, is supposedly something to with skyscrapers) could easily handle some overflow from the far more important Weather and NHL (Oilers) threads if needed.
The Great Canadian Skyline thread is quite active. It covers the depth of discussion on skyscrapers quite well. The Future Canadian Skyline thread covers proposals. These threads do not cover skyscraper statistics however, skyscraper stats of interest aren't exactly to the level of sport or weather assumingly. The interest doesn't extend past number of metres tall.
The One | 338.3m | 94s | Mizrahi Developments | Foster + Partners l u/c
Lots of gear, forms, elevator (and other) systems to build this (you can tell I have an engineering background ;-).
Mega-columns and walls poured and new forming just a couple of days after the last floor slab was poured. The photo below is the 9,763rd of the project on UrbanToronto… more than half of them I’d bet were shot by UT forum member Benito lol.
Neat angle of the tight site looking south-east at the core rising behind the Dominion Building. Hard to believe 2 more towers* are planned behind (partly inside) the Dominion Building ...just to the left of CIBC Square 2 in the photo below.
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The One is looking very sleek. Honestly thought this was going to turn out quite ugly from the renderings but the quality of the facade is much better than I anticipated.
^Just shows how pictures can be so deceiving based on where they are taken. From those pics it appears 19 Duncan is taller than 160 Front. In reality, 160 Front is around 160ft taller than 19 Duncan.
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