TORONTO | One Bloor | 257 M / 844 FT | 75 Floors - Page 26

caltrane74 · #**501** Posted **Dec 28, 2015, 6:08 AM**

By me

caltrane74 · #**502** Posted **Jan 10, 2016, 9:19 PM**

Massive update by kotsy at UT for One Bloor - 257 meters

This guy takes beautiful construciton photos, makes me want to go out and buy a real camera for my updates.

kotsy at UT

caltrane74 · #**503** Posted **Jan 18, 2016, 10:31 AM**

from Jasonzed

caltrane74 · #**504** Posted **Feb 18, 2016, 2:51 PM**

from drum118 at Urbantoronto

caltrane74 · #**505** Posted **Mar 8, 2016, 3:38 PM**

I usually do one big update, but here's just one picture to hold you over until my big updates come in another week or so, I'm assuming..??

koops65 · #**506** Posted **Mar 21, 2016, 5:56 AM**

Number One Bloor, by me today:

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colemonkee · #**507** Posted **Mar 21, 2016, 8:01 PM**

Is the balcony glass on this fritted or frosted?

simms3_redux · #**508** Posted **Mar 22, 2016, 2:56 AM**

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Originally Posted by caltrane74

By me

I'm not even "afraid of heights" and I just don't get the role of open balconies that high up. The only way you're getting me to spend time out there really beyond 400-500 ft is the way they do the balconies at Karma on the left there...they seem a little more enclosed/structural, but I could just be mistaking what I'm seeing.

Seriously, plain old open balcony + railing up to your waist 700-800 ft up is nutso. Aqua in Chicago also in this category. And I just don't trust patio items not to somehow blow off in a big storm. Imagine those items from that high up blowing off.

Other than that, I do like this building, moreso actually than I like the Studio Gang original in Chicago.

isaidso · #**509** Posted **Mar 22, 2016, 8:44 PM**

Agree about the balconies. I won't go out on a balcony at all if it has glass sides. I use my balcony all the time because it has solid sides and it's usable space. I have carpet out there, a table that seats 4, plants, a trunk, and a lounger. That said, I'm only 14 floors up. When you get past the 25th floor it's just too windy and cold most of the time.

Btw, that condo on the left is Five Condos. Karma is further south.

WhipperSnapper · #**510** Posted **Mar 22, 2016, 11:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by simms3_redux

I'm not even "afraid of heights" and I just don't get the role of open balconies that high up. The only way you're getting me to spend time out there really beyond 400-500 ft is the way they do the balconies at Karma on the left there...they seem a little more enclosed/structural, but I could just be mistaking what I'm seeing.

Seriously, plain old open balcony + railing up to your waist 700-800 ft up is nutso. Aqua in Chicago also in this category. And I just don't trust patio items not to somehow blow off in a big storm. Imagine those items from that high up blowing off.

Other than that, I do like this building, moreso actually than I like the Studio Gang original in Chicago.

LOL. These things are too small for patio items. I lived in apartments with or without balconies. It is nice to be able to open a door and stand the doorway. I'd rather the square footage be added to the closets standing in for apartments nowadays.

Why the comparison to Aqua to in Chicago? It's hardly the first with wavy balconies. Balconies in Toronto have been an architectural statement long before Aqua was built. There are dozens of Aqua-esque towers in the city.

koops65 · #**511** Posted **Mar 23, 2016, 3:28 PM**

Yes, but its the only wavy-balconied tower anywhere close to the same height as Aqua...

koops65 · #**512** Posted **Mar 26, 2016, 9:21 PM**

Pic by me today:

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koops65 · #**513** Posted **Apr 14, 2016, 3:33 AM**

One Bloor:
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All pix by me today.

GeneralLeeTPHLS · #**514** Posted **Apr 24, 2016, 2:07 AM**

This is One Bloor from Mt. Pleasent Road, just a few blocks south of Mt. Pleasent Cemetery. (Middle Building)

GeneralLeeTPHLS · #**515** Posted **May 2, 2016, 2:09 AM**

Some nice fog;

TorontoDrew · #**516** Posted **May 17, 2016, 2:56 AM**

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Casa 2 looks so skinny compared to 1 Bloor.

koops65 · #**517** Posted **May 17, 2016, 10:27 PM**

^^^ One Bloor sure is a beast... and that's the skinny side of Casa II...
An updated pic from a similar vantage point is below.

Pix by me today:

Reflecting the sunlight
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Looming over Yonge & Bloor
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