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Old Posted Jun 1, 2023, 3:48 PM
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I had a thought over this.

Will we see boards allow balcony enclosures in the future. It's a means to add more square footage down the road to these awfully small units but, the exterior ambiance of random balcony enclosure never adds value to the building's aesthetics.

Those slab buildings in Ukraine in which owners renovate the facades of their units to their own preferences. I've seen pink stucco next to baby blue next to the original weathered concrete next to old, discolored green painted concrete. Jeez.
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Old Posted Jun 1, 2023, 3:53 PM
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And I for one like Sugar Warf and the how the patterns play off eachother. The two towers I can't stand down there are the Lighthouse Towers.

Grey, bland, crap finishes, lazy architecture.
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Old Posted Jun 2, 2023, 1:01 PM
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Old Posted Jun 3, 2023, 6:26 AM
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I love watching steel frame towers go up - it’s so skyscapery.
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Old Posted Jun 3, 2023, 12:59 PM
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Old Posted Jun 7, 2023, 2:33 PM
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Some great progress shots of the core and the (half completed) park over the rail corridor. Shot from the Phase 1 tower.


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Note the pavilion structure being built right of centre, part of the Phase 2 park/deck.


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The view east from Spadina on a hazy (wildfire smoke) day.


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Old Posted Jun 7, 2023, 2:58 PM
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Nice view of One Butt.
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A nice butt indeed.

7. Exchange District Condos 1 (Mississauga): 232m / 761ft
I took this yesterday whilst in the area. There's 3 cranes now onsite for the first 3 of what will be 4 towers (first phase*) for the Exchange District Condos project, I believe the 232M tower that's in this thread just got it's crane technically.
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that stroad will look narrower thankfully once Exchange towers South launches across the street.
Love the fact that it'll create more of an urban canyon effect.
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Old Posted Jun 15, 2023, 8:39 PM
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Those tower will take at least a decade until they are completed.

This stretch of Burnhamthorpe has the same utilitarian look as Dixie in the airport industrial area. It's in desperate need of a landscape design with decorate lighting and buried wires. There's some savings as every property already has an underground connection. However, you would still have to build underground vault rooms to connect the properties to the main lines and I think those make up most of the cost of burying wires.

I've been on wider boulevards that didn't look as ominous to cross. The curb cut standing zones are the only lanes I think that have to go. Likewise, a nice median is necessary to divide the space.
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Build out of the structural steel cantilever appears to be finished.


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The 32nd(?) floor being poured… more than 1/3 of the way to 94* storeys (*if Sam gets approval for the extra 9 floors. City Council just voted on the increase so news of a deal may coming soon).


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Phase 1 lobby.


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Community centre.


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Old Posted Jun 22, 2023, 3:18 PM
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The crumpled stainless steel cladding on the Phase 1 tower (on the right @ 73 storeys and 263 metres). There are more than 2,000 residential units in both towers that will have a multi-floor home for the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD).


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Floor 8 u/c is the first of the hotel levels.


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With the hard work below grade and the cantilever steel complete, the steel should start rise more quickly.

Because the tower footprint is angled away from the street grid (and from Phase 1), we’ll one day see some very different ‘magic hour’ curtain-wall diamond magic from its sibling across the rail corridor (can’t wait ;-).



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Old Posted Jun 22, 2023, 3:26 PM
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The fit and finish of The One's exterior is so, so fine. It blows the renderings I've seen clear out of the water.
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Old Posted Jun 22, 2023, 3:58 PM
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Indeed

It's really starting to tower now. I guess it's 100 to 110 metres tall now.
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One Bloor W approved at 328.4 metres (1,077ft) in height:

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Thanks for the info, Insertnamehere! A whole lot of fuss over 10 metres.
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Old Posted Jun 22, 2023, 7:27 PM
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Still a nice increase to 328.4 metres to the CTBUH architectural top... will be interested in seeing what the architects do with the 6 storeys.
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Old Posted Jun 22, 2023, 7:29 PM
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Specifically, the fuss is all about this little bit of shadow:



The city didn't seem to like the shadow falling on the school building itself, so settled for shadows only on the school yard..
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