Platinum Condominiums | 81.3m | 24 fl | Complete - Page 17

thomax · #**321** Posted **Aug 16, 2020, 1:58 PM**

Platinum Condos | 8/10/2020 by Joe, on Flickr

Crapht · #**322** Posted **Aug 16, 2020, 5:02 PM**

Platinum Condos | 8/10/2020 by Joe, on Flickr

Does anyone know why the floor could be so sloped in this one section?

bigguy1231 · #**323** Posted **Aug 16, 2020, 6:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by Crapht

Platinum Condos | 8/10/2020 by Joe, on Flickr

Does anyone know why the floor could be so sloped in this one section?

It is not sloped, it's an optical illusion. The building actually steps back from left to right making it appear to be sloped.

lachlanholmes · #**324** Posted **Aug 28, 2020, 2:01 AM**

It's not an optical trick, it actually is slightly sloped for whatever reason.

Pictures from this evening:

MVRDEV · #**325** Posted **Aug 31, 2020, 1:57 PM**

Sloped for drainage purposes. I am assuming this is part of the above ground parking structure.

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It's not an optical trick, it actually is slightly sloped for whatever reason.

Pictures from this evening:

darren000 · #**326** Posted **Sep 2, 2020, 3:49 PM**

I was told a few weeks ago there may be 3 floors of above ground parking in addition to underground parking. Definitely explains the weird slopes

lachlanholmes · #**327** Posted **Sep 16, 2020, 11:34 PM**

Some pictures from this afternoon:

johnnyhamont · #**328** Posted **Oct 6, 2020, 6:41 PM**

Structure for the podium is now complete with concrete set above the fourth floor. Excited to see the tower start rising soon!

TheRitsman · #**329** Posted **Oct 20, 2020, 5:24 PM**

Why do all these new developments seem to exist in a vacuum? They completely disregard the preexisting conditions, buildings and community around them. The new podium has an ugly concrete wall facing the newly fixed up apartments on King and Hess. Perhaps it could be filled with a nice mural, but I doubt that's part of the plans. It will likely sit as a bare concrete wall until someone pushes for a mural or a developer plans to tear down the historic apartments next door...

This is why developments always have push back. I've seen developments that actually did community consultation and tried and they had very little pushback. NIMBYs exist, but developers could pretend to make an effort.

TheHonestMaple · #**330** Posted **Oct 20, 2020, 5:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by TheRitsman

Why do all these new developments seem to exist in a vacuum? They completely disregard the preexisting conditions, buildings and community around them. The new podium has an ugly concrete wall facing the newly fixed up apartments on King and Hess. Perhaps it could be filled with a nice mural, but I doubt that's part of the plans. It will likely sit as a bare concrete wall until someone pushes for a mural or a developer plans to tear down the historic apartments next door...

This is why developments always have push back. I've seen developments that actually did community consultation and tried and they had very little pushback. NIMBYs exist, but developers could pretend to make an effort.

I doubt it will remain as bare concrete. Although I tend to agree.

TheRitsman · #**331** Posted **Oct 20, 2020, 6:13 PM**

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I doubt it will remain as bare concrete. Although I tend to agree.

Perhaps fake brick, but my point stands, it's a plain wall, where windows or something could have been.

Innsertnamehere · #**332** Posted **Oct 20, 2020, 7:04 PM**

It's a small site and there are building code measures they have to adhere to. You can't put windows on walls too close to a property line, so they would have to set the wall back by about 15 feet to do so. And that would have too large an impact on the parking garage, etc.

Blank walls are part of large cities. They are very common in Toronto.

This one isn't even that bad, it's only about a floor above the adjacent building.

TheRitsman · #**333** Posted **Oct 20, 2020, 7:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere

It's a small site and there are building code measures they have to adhere to. You can't put windows on walls too close to a property line, so they would have to set the wall back by about 15 feet to do so. And that would have too large an impact on the parking garage, etc.

Blank walls are part of large cities. They are very common in Toronto.

This one isn't even that bad, it's only about a floor above the adjacent building.

I'd be curious why, there are plenty of old building that have windows against the property line, and it causes no issues.

Chronamut · #**334** Posted **Oct 20, 2020, 7:21 PM**

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I'd be curious why, there are plenty of old building that have windows against the property line, and it causes no issues.

Because they're old buildings - and thus grandfathered in. Going forward one has to adhere to current building code standards.

And this is not the only example of a concrete wall - the george st one also faces the renovated historical building with a blank wall. It sets a subconscious message that "your time will come historical building" and that any new building that demolishes it will but up to that wall.

TheRitsman · #**335** Posted **Oct 20, 2020, 7:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by Chronamut

Because they're old buildings - and thus grandfathered in. Going forward one has to adhere to current building code standards.

And this is not the only example of a concrete wall - the george st one also faces the renovated historical building with a blank wall. It sets a subconscious message that "your time will come historical building" and that any new building that demolishes it will but up to that wall.

This is my point, and I meant to mention Marquee as well within my post about this. I understand why a developer may have to adhere to modern rules, what I'm curious about is why that modern rule exists.

TheHonestMaple · #**336** Posted **Oct 20, 2020, 7:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by TheRitsman

This is my point, and I meant to mention Marquee as well within my post about this. I understand why a developer may have to adhere to modern rules, what I'm curious about is why that modern rule exists.

It's likely to do with the fire code. You can't place windows directly on a property line because if any future building were also built directly adjacent on the property line, those windows would then be blocked.

TheRitsman · #**337** Posted **Oct 20, 2020, 7:57 PM**

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It's likely to do with the fire code. You can't place windows directly on a property line because if any future building were also built directly adjacent on the property line, those windows would then be blocked.

That's a fair point, but I'm not sure why they couldn't simply be labelled as "decorative" windows that lack any capacity of fire safety, even so far as not being able to be opened.

ScreamingViking · #**338** Posted **Oct 23, 2020, 3:32 PM**

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That's a fair point, but I'm not sure why they couldn't simply be labelled as "decorative" windows that lack any capacity of fire safety, even so far as not being able to be opened.

False windows would be another idea.

johnnyhamont · #**339** Posted **Oct 26, 2020, 4:45 PM**

Exterior panels are being installed

Chronamut · #**340** Posted **Oct 26, 2020, 5:34 PM**

hunh odd way to move them - almost looks like it damages them that way to sorta drill into them to hold them... I'm guessing those areas will be filled and painted or smoothed over after