Cobalt Luxury Residences On King | 97.5 & 97.5m | 2 x 30 fl | Complete - Page 55

craftbeerdad · #1 Posted **Jan 16, 2023, 2:25 PM**

View from SE of downtown

Fruitloops · #2 Posted **Jan 18, 2023, 3:01 PM**

An easy question I'm sure someone has answer to. Driving up Sherman cut and more or less at eye level with downtown. Cobalt at 30 floors seem seems much shorter than Stelco tower at 26....obviously the floors were higher on Stelco tower? or ??

Hawrylyshyn · #3 Posted **Jan 18, 2023, 3:37 PM**

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An easy question I'm sure someone has answer to. Driving up Sherman cut and more or less at eye level with downtown. Cobalt at 30 floors seem seems much shorter than Stelco tower at 26....obviously the floors were higher on Stelco tower? or ??

Stelco is ~10m taller

Innsertnamehere · #4 Posted **Jan 18, 2023, 3:40 PM**

Office floors are higher than residential floors. It’s why in Toronto a 75 storey residential building can be the same height as a 50 storey office building. Office floors are typically 4-4.5m, while residential is typically ~3m (varies between 2.65 to 3.5m, most buildings are 2.95)

Older residential buildings are also a lot shorter. Buildings built in the 1960’s and 1970’s typically had 7ft ceilings compared to the 8.5-9ft standard today, which means a 10 storey building from 50 years ago is roughly equal to a 7 storey building today.

johnnyhamont · #5 Posted **Jan 23, 2023, 7:25 PM**

Photos from the weekend

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Chronamut · #6 Posted **Jan 23, 2023, 8:31 PM**

Ooh ooh the old windsor hotel it looks like they made it more uniform by making all the the pediments black - looks a lot more uniform now.. hope they repaint the yellow faded parts..

TheHonestMaple · #7 Posted **Feb 7, 2023, 10:09 PM**

Taken a couple weeks ago.

Chronamut · #8 Posted **Feb 7, 2023, 11:50 PM**

Bottom right in that pic beside the royal connaught - I see that building STILL looks post apocalyptic without a roof, are they eventually going to tear it down..?

The Gore · #9 Posted **Feb 8, 2023, 1:33 AM**

looks awesome from this angle!

TheRitsman · #10 Posted **Feb 8, 2023, 3:24 AM**

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Bottom right in that pic beside the royal connaught - I see that building STILL looks post apocalyptic without a roof, are they eventually going to tear it down..?

Wasn't it heritage protected and therefore they can't demolish until it's structurally unsound?

Chronamut · #11 Posted **Feb 8, 2023, 6:21 AM**

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Wasn't it heritage protected and therefore they can't demolish until it's structurally unsound?

What about it is exactly heritage? The building looks like it was covered in 100 years of soot and has no remaining heritage features.. like every time I walk by it I just hate it.

This is what it used to look like, and what they proposed for it - like how did it get from THAT to THIS?

Like oh this is much too fancy - we need to rebuild it with something far more generic and gross.

Like I am not usually one for tearing stuff down, but that building is just ugly. Tear it and Saigon house down and you could do a nice stepped down build in height in-between the corning building and the Connaught.

TheRitsman · #12 Posted **Feb 8, 2023, 12:16 PM**

I'm not disagreeing, just pointing out why I think it hasn't been torn down yet. I do think they should either get a move on, or tear it down. As it is right now it's a blight on the street and likely dangerous.

Who owns this again?

Innsertnamehere · #13 Posted **Feb 8, 2023, 1:34 PM**

IIRC Yoke Group was leading the previous attempt to renovate it. Not sure why they stopped and if it's flipped ownership since. They seem to be focusing on their 11 Robert St project now.

Chronamut · #14 Posted **Feb 8, 2023, 5:59 PM**

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IIRC Yoke Group was leading the previous attempt to renovate it. Not sure why they stopped and if it's flipped ownership since. They seem to be focusing on their 11 Robert St project now.

It probably sat for too long - there may be structural issues now..

TheRitsman · #15 Posted **Feb 8, 2023, 9:40 PM**

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IIRC Yoke Group was leading the previous attempt to renovate it. Not sure why they stopped and if it's flipped ownership since. They seem to be focusing on their 11 Robert St project now.

I believe I've said this before, but Yoke Group seems to barely be able to move anything forward. They also have that dilapidated house on King St that I don't know if they own anymore or not. As they are behind 11 Robert, I don't have faith it will ever happen.