TORONTO | Highrise Developments Compilation Thread - Page 186

Maldive · #**3701** Posted **May 4, 2022, 6:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by Dariusb

Toronto's new buildings look better than anything going up in North America in my opinion.

While there are certainly some real duds in the avalanche of construction (lots courtesy of developer Pemberton eg. "Social"), there are also some terrific builds underway*.
I think the best is yet to come with so many great proposals in the pipeline... as always, praying they make it through without too much value-engineering.

*a strike is now underway (includes concrete formers) so many sites are now quiet... I heard predictions of a 2 week work stoppage (but as long as 6 weeks - June 15th is the apparent cut-off).

While we twiddle our thumbs.... some stuff:

Theatre District Residence & Riu Plaza Hotel | 156.05m x 2 | 49s x 2 | Plaza | BDP Quadrangle

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

Phase 2 and part of the deck/park over the rail corridor.

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Scarborough Junction Masterplan | 155.62m | 48s | Republic | Giannone Petricone l pre-construction

Images from the site plan approval application. Full build-out includes condo, rental, public space and retail (17 buildings). Located at St. Clair East and Danforth, next door to the Scarborough GO train.

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252 Church | 166.1m | 52s | CentreCourt | IBI Group l pre-construction

Parking lot is now fenced off so they may be starting partial demolition of the western piece of the designated heritage building, followed by site shoring.

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888 Dupont | 53.9m | 14s | TAS | SA l pre-construction

Institutional, office, rental and retail.

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Replaces this:

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210 Bloor West | 114.8m | 29s | Tribute | Core Architects l pre-construction

New rendering from the rezoning application. Height increased a few metres. The city opposed this one but the developer won last summer at the OMB.

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T3 Bayside | 42m | 10s | Hines | 3XN l u/c

One of two mass timber projects underway on the waterfront (see 'Limberlost' below).

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George Brown College: Limberlost Place | 52.5m | 10s | George Brown | Moriyama & Teshima l u/c

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315 Spadina | 46.29m | 13s | Podium | Montgomery Sisam l pre-construction

Resubmission last month addressing various issues. Big fan of this one.

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Regent Park: Block 1 | 88.25m | 25s | Daniels | superkül l pre-construction

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Shot from last fall, hoarding is now going up around the site.

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1 Adriatic | 129.9m | 38s | Trolleybus | superkül l pre-construction

Rezoning application filed for 38, 34 and 19-storey residential buildings.

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Transit City Condos: TC4 & TC5 | 174.34m | 50s | SmartCentres | Diamond Schmitt l u/c

From a couple of weeks ago, these are looking sharp.

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Posted by nite in another SSP, thread a great new drone video… Scotia Plaza steals the show in the first minute.

https://youtu.be/ha3Lf98owLo

Maldive · #**3702** Posted **May 9, 2022, 3:33 PM**

West Don Lands: Block 13 l ?m l 32s l DundeeKilmer l Henriquez & Partners l pre-construction

Some better (and new) renderings from the rezoning application. 859 residential units fronting the Canary Commons park.

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Love the “feathering” of brick colours.

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The James at Scrivener Square | 81.65m | 21s | Tricon | Cobe, Graziani + Corazza l excavation

Looks like we may see cranes soon(?)… but no crane operators (6000 crane and heavy equipment operators are on strike).

Today 15,000 Ontario carpenters joined the wide spread construction strike which already includes high-rise forming workers.

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260 Adelaide West | 199.3m | 60s | CentreCourt | Sweeny &Co l pre-construction

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PRIME Condos | 148.43m | 46s | CentreCourt | IBI Group l u/c

CentreCourt is busy indeed with construction projects in the city including:

Prime, 8 Wellesley (55 storeys), 55 Mercer (47 storeys), 199 Church (39 storeys), The Forest Hill (17 storeys), a possible start soon for 252 Church (52 storeys) and Transit City (50 and 45 storeys) out in suburban Vaughan.

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EQ Bank Tower | 105.18m | 23s | First Gulf | Sweeny &Co l u/c

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19 Duncan | 186.53m | 58s | Westbank | Hariri Pontarini l u/c

Hard not to keeping posting pics of a project that actually looks better than the renderings… a rare bird ;-).

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Fins underway on the tower.

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Guessing they are around the 30th floor/level (around 28 storeys to go). Looking forward to seeing the heritage facade (behind the curtain).

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Eighty One Wellesley | 97.53m | 28s | Aragon Properties | Core Architects l u/c

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JAC Condos | 108.5m | 34s | Graywood | Turner Fleischer l u/c

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Valhalla Village | 121.91m | 37s | KingSett Capital | BDP Quadrangle l site shoring

37, 29, 21, 10 storeys of office, rental and retail.

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U of T: Robarts Library Renovations & Robarts Common | Diamond Schmitt l nearly complete

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Exchange District Condos | 232m | 72s | Camrost-Felcorp | IBI Group l excavation & u/c

Not sure which building/phase is u/c… 2 more buildings are being excavated.
Condo, hotel, office and retail in 4 towers (72, 60, 42 and 30 storeys).

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Worth another look:
U of T: John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design | 18.9m | 3s | U of T | NADAAA l complete

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The north addition with its wonderful mural.

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Michael Muraz Photography

steveve's future model for North York (Yonge Street north of Hwy 401). Note the explosion of proposals around Yonge and Steeles.

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Maldive · #**3703** Posted **May 12, 2022, 3:59 PM**

307 Lake Shore Blvd. East l ?m l 49s l Plaza l BDP Quadrangle l pre-construction

Located on a privately-owned site among the Quayside development lands (number 8 on the graphic below).

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Plaza owns the development site seen as number 8 below.

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Quayside (designed by Alison Brooks Architects, David Adjaye Associates, Henning Larsen Architects and SLA landscape architects).

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Maldive · #**3704** Posted **May 13, 2022, 5:00 PM**

90 Isabella | ?m | 69s | Capital Developments | Diamond Schmitt l pre-construction

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This one is from the same team (Capital and Diamond Schmitt) behind 88 Isabella (203m and 62 storeys)… right next door. Good luck getting sunlight on the small park proposed between the two ;-).

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1319 Bloor West | 105.3m | 31s | KingSett Capital | Hariri Pontarini l pre-construction

Recommended for approval. Mixed-use with 799 residential units in 2 towers.

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55 Yonge | 236.21m | 66s | H&R REIT | PARTISANS l pre-construction

The city wants direct PATH and subway connections and the existing bylaw calls for 300 residential parking spots while only 28 spots are proposed. Hopefully issues can be settled before yet another appeal to the OLT. One of the best-designed new projects proposed in years.

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351 Lake Shore East | 130m | 41s | Great Gulf | a-A l pre-construction

A terrible aA-designed monolith just east of the spectacular plans for Quayside. What was Great Gulf thinking? They are also a partner with DREAM in the Quayside project. Send this back or hire one of the Quayside design team members (incl. David Adjaye Associates, Alison Brooks, Henning Larsen, KPMB). 691 residential units.

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Original 49s proposal:

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1500 St Clair West | 63.7m | 17s | Alterra | Sweeny &Co l pre-construction

Recommended for approval. Condo (752 units) and retail.

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The Well | 174.03m | 46s | RioCan | Hariri Pontarini l u/c

Terracotta cladding on one of the podiums.

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Regent Park: Daniels Artworks Tower | 105.76m | 33s | Daniels | BDP Quadrangle l u/c

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The United BLDG | 179.52m | 52s | Davpart | B+H l u/c

Insane amount of steel supporting one of the heritage buildings. North America’s tallest heritage retention development includes office, condo and retail.

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CIBC Square 1 at night (cranes are phase 2).

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colemonkee · #**3705** Posted **May 13, 2022, 10:05 PM**

Purely for comedy's sake, I hope the strike is just a ploy of all the rest of the concrete workers, carpenters, and other construction workers to feel what it's like to work on the site of The ONE for a few weeks...

Maldive · #**3706** Posted **May 13, 2022, 10:11 PM**

307 Lake Shore East | 160.18m | 49s | Plaza Partners | BDP Quadrangle l pre-construction

Some more eye candy just released for the design described as: “The exoskeleton design creates a network of both functional supporting features, as well as decorative visual aesthetics”.

The first image shows the tower location north of AquaLuna (u/c) and near Parliament Slip, the site of a planned major waterfront face-lift (see below).

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The triangular flatiron shape.

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Parliament Slip plans include “wave decks” similar to those at Harbourfront, swimming, canoe/kayak launch, and a destination restaurant on a floating pier.

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Maldive · #**3707** Posted **May 17, 2022, 4:54 PM**

Rail Deck District | ?m | 70s | Craft Dev Corp | Sweeny &Co l pre-construction

The latest proposal to deck the rail corridor ups the plans from 8 to 11 towers, ranging in height from 12 to 70 storeys and provides a 2.5 acre park. 5,754 residential units are proposed along with 22,539 square metres of non-residential uses (retail, hotel, daycare etc.).

From the site plan, it is clear the proponents expect the city to look after (fund?) the bulk of parkland above the southern section of the rail corridor (similar to the city’s own concept for a “Rail Deck Park”). Obviously the city should (at minimum) negotiate the construction of the rail deck infrastructure with the developers, who are open to a private-public collaboration.

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New images are little more than massing diagrams:

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Bayview Village Redevelopment | 113.99m | 30s | bcIMC | DIALOG l pre-construction

Yet another mall redevelopment: condo, rental, retail and public space.

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New docs posted for a northern section/phase of the redevelopment.

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T3 Bayside | 42m | 10s | Hines | 3XN l u/c

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Islington Terrace | 145.08m | 45s | Tridel | Kirkor Architects l nearly complete

45, 44 and 35 storeys of condo and retail adjacent to the Bloor subway at Islington. Turned out ok.

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A bit more work to finish.

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Edge Towers | ?m | 50s | Solmar | Rosario Varacalli l u/c

50, 40 and 35 storeys in Mississauga.

Phase 1 @ 35s.

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Phase 2 @ 40s.

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All 3 phases.

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Sheppard and Don Mills has a skyline (who knew ;-).

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Maldive · #**3708** Posted **May 19, 2022, 4:51 PM**

Chelsea Green | 283.53m | 86s | Great Eagle | a—A l rezoning approved

A resubmission this month to address outstanding site plan issues (a settlement offer for rezoning was approved more than 3 years ago). Most of the renderings below from the submission are pretty much the same as submitted previously.

The huge Eaton Chelsea Hotel would be replaced by 31, 49 and 86 storey towers - includes condo, new hotel, institutional, office, public space and retail. The tallest tower is centre of the rendering.

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The unique window shapes of the tower can be seen above the fluted glass podium.

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Eaton Hotel

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1181 Queen Street West | 54.56m | 15s | Skale | BDP Quadrangle l u/c

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Nice to see the promised real brick going up (instead of brick precast).

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328 Bloor West | 114.92m | 37s | First Capital | BDP Quadrangle l pre-construction

Condo and retail at the corner of Bloor and Spadina. The small bank on-site is fenced off so maybe some action soon(?).

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colemonkee · #**3709** Posted **May 20, 2022, 3:28 AM**

Really like those last three! Shame that the best looking tower in Chelsea Green is the shortest one. That fluted glass base, as the kids say these days, slaps!

Elkhanan1 · #**3710** Posted **May 20, 2022, 9:14 AM**

This video touches on some of the issues underlying Toronto's insane building boom. (It's also a bit of a shameless plug for The One.)

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Maldive · #**3711** Posted **May 24, 2022, 4:43 PM**

CIBC Square Phase 1 - before the storm

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460 King West | 98.6m | 23s | Allied | Morris Adjmi l pre-construction

Office and retail incorporating a number of heritage buildings. Quite disappointed in this Morris Adjmi design.

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Across the street from Allied’s planned 96 Spadina designed by Sweeny & Co.

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Nobu Residences Toronto | 156.66m x 2 | 45s x 2 | Madison Group | Teeple Architects l u/c

Relentless whining and attacks at the UT forum over the materials on this one.

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Sugar Wharf Condominiums (Phase 1) | 231m | 70s | Menkes | a—A l u/c

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Peeking through in the distance.

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LeftBank | 113m | 34s | Broccolini | IBI Group l pre-construction

The city appealed but this one won approval at the OLT. Waiting for site plan approval. A few changes in the render below from the docs submitted.

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50 Eglinton West | 126m | 35s | Madison Group | Turner Fleischer l pre-construction

Settlement deal with the city (including a ‘haircut’). 39s tower reduced to 35s and 34s tower reduced to 33s. Condo, office and retail.

Before the haircut.

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2345 Yonge | 125.9m | 34s | RioCan | DIALOG l pre-construction

Shrunk from 2 ugly towers designed by DIALOG… to one ugly tower. That’s progress I guess.

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All is well at The Well with the construction strike now ended.

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M1 & M2 at M City | 197.81m | 60s | Rogers Real Estate | Core Architects l u/c

Left side foreground is M3 u/c (see render below), and right foreground is site prep for a future park.

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M3 @ 77 storeys (260m):

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Transit - some updates

Scarborough Subway Extension

A 7.8 km $5.5 Billion extension of the Bloor-Danforth subway from its present terminus at Kennedy Road, north to Scarborough Centre and beyond to Sheppard Avenue and McCowan Road. Projected ridership is more than 100,000 daily boardings (including more than 50,000 new users).

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The tunnel boring machine dubbed Diggy Scardust, seen here during factory testing, has been dropped into the launch shaft to begin the big chew.

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Eglinton Crosstown LRT

A $5.8 Billion 25 station (19 kilometre) LRT line u/c and planned to be completed by the end of the year.

The new LRTs are undergoing “top speed tests” which means 60km above grade and 80km below grade.

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Ontario Line

An $11 Billion 15.6 kilometre 15 stop subway line (below grade, elevated and at grade in existing GO Transit corridors) from Exhibition Place in the west, through downtown, then north to the Ontario Science Centre. A number of mixed-use developments are planned for station sites.

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Demolition underway last month on the site of the future Corktown Station.

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Maldive · #**3712** Posted **May 24, 2022, 4:44 PM**

Downtown construction and proposed development model looking north from Gerrard to Bloor/Yorkville.

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koops65 · #**3713** Posted **May 27, 2022, 4:40 PM**

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Gresto · #**3714** Posted **May 27, 2022, 5:19 PM**

Marvellous render, koops.

koops65 · #**3715** Posted **May 27, 2022, 6:11 PM**

Thank you!

Maldive · #**3716** Posted **May 30, 2022, 6:24 PM**

1406 Yonge | 139.99m | 40s | Metropia | IBI Group l pre-construction

Resubmitted a bit taller, zero parking and now incorporating the heritage facade in the podium.

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22 Balliol Residences | 126m | 38s | Shiplake | gh3 l approved

A settlement offer was approved at OLT with revisions such as smaller tower floor plates (now 750m2), increased setbacks and fewer units (down from 425 to 399 units).

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Canary Landing | 89.61m | 26s | Dream | COBE Architects l u/c

Great architects (I’ll have another Danish please) and dreamy developer = wonderful results.

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Applause for a project that is keeping its render promiser ;-).

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

Pouring the 10th floor… a few more to go.

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Cladding the west external elevator core.

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50 Scollard | 147.62m | 41s | Lanterra | Foster + Partners l u/c

The other “Foster” in the neighbourhood.

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St Lawrence Market North | 25.3m | 5s | City of Toronto | Rogers Stirk Harbour l u/c

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Just left of the spire of St. James Cathedral (the 2 vaulted/arched volumes).

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The Saint | 151m | 47s | Minto Group | Wallman Architects l u/c

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65 King Street East | 82.9m | 18s | Carttera | WZMH l u/c

Restored heritage components.

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

Close to finishing up excavation.

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The Well | 174.03m | 46s | RioCan | Hariri Pontarini l u/c

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55 Mercer | 155.5m | 47s | CentreCourt | IBI Group l u/c

One more podium floor below the tower rises.

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

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123 Portland | 49.3m | 14s | Minto Group | Sweeny &Co l u/c

Precast pretty much as rendered below.

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IMMIX | 131.06m | 38s | QuadReal | a—A l u/c

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Clock tower still hidden.

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The Pemberton | 215.79m | 68s | Pemberton | a—A l excavation

Still playing in the dirt.

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11 YV | 212.44m | 62s | Metropia | Sweeny &Co l u/c

Next door to the Pemberton, starting to climb.

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Eight Cumberland u/c behind.

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Eight Cumberland | 170m | 51s | Great Gulf | a—A l u/c

Poking up on the right side of the photo.

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The Ivy | 110.33m | 34s | Tricon | Graziani + Corazza l u/c

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Ontario Court of Justice Toronto | 95.7m | 17s | Infrastructure Ontario | Renzo Piano l u/c

Seems like it’s taking a long time to finish this Piano.

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On the left tucked in behind city hall.

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Sugar Wharf Condominiums (Phase 1) | 231m | 70s | Menkes | a—A l u/c

Pinnacle One Yonge phase 1 seen behind on the left.

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The Davisville | 42.08m | 12s | Rockport Group | RAW Design l prep

Nice condo, rental and retail mid-rise about to start.

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Westport Condos | ?m | 22s | Edenshaw | IBI Group l u/c

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Construction site as obstacle course.

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Looking north-east to Yonge and Bloor.

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clubtokyo · #**3717** Posted **May 31, 2022, 4:59 AM**

Toronto is wild! It’s like a modern day NYC!

Nite · #**3718** Posted **May 31, 2022, 7:31 PM**

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Toronto is wild! It’s like a modern day NYC!

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H2O · #**3719** Posted **Jun 1, 2022, 1:02 PM**

Toronto should just change it's name back to York to create further confusion. York City or New New York?

jpk1292000 · #**3720** Posted **Jun 2, 2022, 12:35 AM**

Geez. Toronto is building like no city in the Western Hemisphere, as far as I'm aware. I was last there about 12 years ago and the transformation of the skyline from then to these recent pictures is hard to fathom.

What's driving the high rise growth? Is it limits on single family homes in the suburbs?