80 Bloor Street West - 260m + (?)240m(?) - 78s + 76s - Krugarand - designed by Giannone Petricone - approved
An odd way to learn about “approval” of a major downtown development: This proposal was opposed by the City and headed to an LPAT (formerly the OMB) hearing.
Yesterday, news leaked in a neighbourhood association newsletter, that “City Council approved the developer’s application" more than 2 months ago.
No final renders (see elevations below) have been released but the approved submission contained some highlights:
- the taller west tower features a pattern of glass that reads as a "patchwork", breaking up the scale of the tower.
- the easterly tower is clad in clear glass curtain-wall, articulated by deep horizontal sills at all floor slabs.
- the podium would be clad with an undulating pleated glass curtain-wall wrapping the edges of the public park.
- expansion of the Yorkville Village Park
elevations
UT
site plan
UT
steveve - elevations
steveve
Aerial (the tallest left of centre is 1200 Bay (324m - 87s), with the 2 towers of 80 Bloor West practically “glued” to it from this pov. A total of
241 floors proposed on a relatively small footprint.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...2bb14d04_k.jpg
The One - 309m - 85s - Mizrahi Developments - Foster + Partners - under construction
I just discovered that my brother-in-law, who works at
Walters Group in Stoney Creek (Ontario), didn’t mention they were
fabricating steel (like the connectors below) for the tallest building in Canada… even
though he knows I’m a skyscraper
geek (coal in his stocking this Christmas ;-)
Fortunately a forum member who lives near the plant is stalking deliveries like these “octopus-ish” connectors ready for transport.
macro
Benito
Toronto skyline: for skyscraper and skyline geeks (like me), here’s a ‘by the numbers” snapshot of Toronto skyscraper totals, which I (and lots of others)
define as 150 metres or more (rather than the 100+ metre metric often used by the media).
This snapshot uses a 150 metre +/- one metre, because I think it’s a bit silly to ignore a half dozen scrapers that are .4 metres below the threshold ;-).
Proposed:
97 - 150m- 376m (CC3)
Construction:
26 - 150m- 312.5m (SkyTower)
Built:
68 - 150m- 298m (FCP)
1 - 533m - (CN Tower)
Built + Construction: - TOTAL
95
Built + Construction + Proposed:- TOTAL
190
A) Supertalls (300m+) Built or Construction: 2
B) Supertalls (300m+) Proposed: 7
My subjective observation: for fun I decided to add in just
25% of the Toronto proposals (24 skyscrapers) to project
an informal built or under construction future snapshot: The total equals
119 skyscrapers. Not bad. In fact IMO Toronto will one day have the number 2 skyline in North America.
The city may not have a 400 metre+ skyscraper (though it’s not impossible in the future), but I think this fact is mitigated by the the tallest free-standing structure in North America,
the CN Tower (553m). While purists insist CN is not a “building”, it has certainly been a skyline-changer in a few million photos for the past four and a half decades. It belongs in any skyline discussion.
Prev
Say, I've been away most of the summer; what chance does the elephantine Humber Bay proposal - practically a city in and of itself - have getting past council unscathed?
.
.
Linear Mode
