TORONTO | Highrise Developments Compilation Thread

[koops65]

The One:

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[Maldive]

Updated look at the area around Bloor- Yorkville featuring the 2 new designs on Yonge from AS+GG (tallest at 280 metres) from Stephen Velasco.


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Sugar Wharf Condominiums (Phase 2) | 299m | 90s | Menkes | a—A l site demolition

They made quick work clearing the south end of the site and are now biting into the large LCBO warehouses.


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The 3 towers just right of centre below.


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The United BLDG | 179.52m | 52s | Davpart | B+H l site demolition and heritage retention

The heritage retention elements of this project seems to have taken forever… but it starts to make sense after viewing the (astonishing) photo below.

Floating… on steel.


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Bloor & Dufferin | 128.9m | 37s | Hazelview | Turner Fleischer l site shoring

After months of demolition (and some heritage retention), shoring has begun on one of the parcels. This project is being delivered by 2 developers, Hazelview and Fitzrovia and includes
a mix of purpose-built rental and condo units (2,100 total), 50,000 sq. ft. of office space, 174,000 sq.ft. of retail, a Community Hub and daycare.


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I think this is the only survivor on site (the former Kent school) that will host a daycare centre.


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The pedestrian “High Street” that will bisect the site.


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Aerial


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Etobicoke Civic Centre | 75.82m | 16s | CreateTO | Henning Larsen l pre-construction

General contractor services were being negotiated last November/December and the project time-line says excavation will begin next month.

Danish firm Henning Larsen is the design lead on a number of projects in the city (including the Distillery District) ...but this one is likely going to be the first of their designs to get shovels in the ground.


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45 Balliol | 131.55m | 37s | G.R Feldman Investments | Core Architects l pre-construction

This rental and condo mix was quiet for a while and has now been resubmitted slightly shorter with a small drop in total units.


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265 Balliol | 91.43m | 27s | Park Property | BDP Quadrangle l site demolition

Another project on Balliol that is in the middle of demo-ing a large parking garage on site. Rental and retail here.


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The Whitfield | 130m | 39s | Menkes | Giannone Petricone l excavation

Site is looking like it’s closer to getting a crane base soon. Condo and retail.


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[koops65]

The Whitfield:

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[Maldive]

Pinnacle One Yonge | 344.58m | 105s | Pinnacle | Hariri Pontarini l u/c


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On the right, the edge of Phase 1 balconies with a view across the lake to Niagara Falls.


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

Sunrise: the taller 75 storey tower hides its sibling from this angle.


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160 Front West | 239.87m | 46s | Cadillac Fairview | AS + GG l u/c

LED lights test during daylight.


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Crown starting to climb higher.


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

First glazing on one the towers.


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95 St Joseph | 130.9m | 39s | Daniels | Core Architects l Approved

Talk about ARCHitecture… this one was approved last summer but site plan docs revealed a rather dramatic change to the tower.


Northern Light

Earlier version.


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457 Richmond Street West | 57m | 19s | DC Dev Corp | a—A l Approved

After getting approved last May, this nice red brick infill building has now filed its site plan approval docs (negligible changes).


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Concord Sky | 298.99m | 85s | Concord Adex | a—A l u/c

So it begins. Never thought this would actually happen but (is it a supertall? ;-) Concord Sky finally got its crane base.


Bulloch

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For many months excavators were picking away at the site (rather like The Pemberton in Yorkville).


Johnny Au


Alias | 149.5m | 45s | Madison Group | Teeple Architects l u/c

Another project got its crane base installed yesterday.

In a few years Church Street will be unrecognizable…. the intersection of Church and Richmond alone has 3 active projects including the 47 storey (151 metres) 'The Saint' which has risen 3 floors above its podium.



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

Crane coming down soon.


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Hyatt Place / The 203 Residences on Jarvis | 108.2m | 32s | Manga | IBI Group l u/c

Rising left of centre last month.


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

New floor formed up with rebar work underway.


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Video tour inside the belly of the beast (beneath the SkyBuild self-climbing elevators):

https://youtu.be/yAwNb4DIkGc

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310 Front West | 235.5m | 69s | H&R REIT | Hariri Pontarini l pre-construction

Not sure where this image was sourced but below is a massing diagram for an even taller (@ 77 storeys - 253 metres) 2nd tower on this site. The 2nd tower is identified as 320-330 Front Street West but no application docs yet. Hopefully HPA will be retained to design this tower too... would be quite a block (all 3 existing buildings would have to be demo'd).


FullMetalEngineer

310 Front Street West: site plan approval docs were filed last year.


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[H2O]

95 St. Joseph is a travesty of the principles of architecture. How did the designers and principles at CORE graduate from architecture school? In my day they would have been humiliated into dropping out or failed so badly they would have no option of continuing.

[Maldive]

100 Simcoe | 209.6m | 61s | BentallGreenOak | Hariri Pontarini l pre-construction

Some revised renderings with simplified colour palette (me likey ;-): Red brick now taken all the way up the tower and some nice arches transitioning from the heritage building to the new build above. One large podium volume coloured bronze and most of the balconies that were on the top half of the tower have been eliminated.


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(19 Duncan u/c is on the right).


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[colemonkee]

Definitely an improvement for 100 Simcoe, even if the crown is a bit awkward and unfinished, especially viewed from near Roy Thomson Hall, where it will be most visible. Would like to see more thought put towards that side. Otherwise, this is really nice.

Agreed with H20 that 95 St. Joseph is just laughable. The arches make no sense whatsoever. There is zero context for that many arches. And please do not say that the arch of the entrance to the heritage building provides the context. That's just as laughable as the design.

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820 Church Street | 124.6m | 38s | 820 Church GP | IBI Group l approved

This one is finally headed for approval after a settlement agreement (and multiple revisions) was reached… and in a rare, almost bizarre city planning twist…. instead of an expected haircut, it grew 6 storeys. Unfortunately the city has insisted on the 4 lower floors be setback from the street resulting in a butt-ugly revision at grade ... I love cantilevers but this one looks dumb.


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Original design:


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1255 Bay | 129.85m | 35s | KingSett Capital | BDP Quadrangle l approved

This nice BDPQ design is now recommended for approval.


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While it’s 35 storeys in height, it’s basically going to be an invisible “infill” building in the emerging skyscraper forest of Bloor-Yorkville lol. Below, the orange building in this older steveve render looking south-east.


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Queen Central | 106.23m | 34s | Parallax | IBI Group l site shoring/excavation?

A schedule released today says excavation will be complete and below grade formwork would be commencing by late April/early May. No recent pics… below, shoring began a few weeks ago.


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2 nicely 'executed' public buildings:


Ontario Court of Justice Toronto | 95.7m | 17s | Infrastructure Ontario | Renzo Piano l nearing completion

Final touches on the modest Piano courthouses (deferring to new City Hall of course).


Urban-Affair

Urban-Affair

These law book sculptures clearly honour WhipperSnapper.


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

Another day, yet another layer on the barrel roof(s)... pretty sure this won’t leak. Eventually hosting a curvy green hair-do.


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160 Front West | 239.87m | 46s | Cadillac Fairview | AS + GG l u/c

Nice angle looking south that shows the way the tower angles away from grade, and the steel on top starting to form the ski-slope crown.


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Quadruple angle steel connector.


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The infestion of snakes (duct work) at night.


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

With so many window-wall spaMdrel™-infested builds, great materials give the tower portion of this HPA beauty a refreshing, almost ‘office building’ quality (of course much of the podium is in fact office: Thomson Reuters). Thanks WestBank.


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55C: 55 Charles Condos | 167m | 50s | MOD Developments | a—A l u/c

Jammed into the Charles Street highrise forest.


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

The aerialist circus performers at work as the crane starts to come down.


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Galleria 01 & 02 | 92.65m | 29s | Almadev | Core Architects l u/c

The first big additions to the Galleria mall redevelopment gettin’ up there. The Phase 3 flat-iron (just underway) tower will steal the show here.


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Portland Commons | 71.7m | 15s | Carttera | Sweeny&Co l u/c


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Huge bracing/cantilever steel.


AHK

First glazing looks nice.


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2 Queen West | 34.44m | 7s | Cadillac Fairview | Zeidler l u/c

Epic historic reno + rooftop addition continues. Cadillac Fairview built a 240 metre bank tower (160 Front West) in half the time ;-).


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199 Church | 124.5m | 39s | CentreCourt | IBI Group l u/c

Another good looking CentreCourt building rising (with the dreadful Pemberton ’Social’ behind).


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Maverick | 154.53m | 49s | Empire | IBI Group l u/c

Centre of the photo with Nobu u/c on the left.


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323 Symington | 130.67m | 39s | European Bakery Supply Inc | TACT Architecture l pre-construction

39 and 36-storey mixed-use condominium buildings on the corner of Symington and Dupont Street.


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Apparently located near 40 acres of lawn.


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26 Greenbriar | 73.45m | 22s | Block | RAW Design l pre-construction

Another proposal for Bayview Village. No too bad for a RAW design (who have more misses than hits).


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1635 Lawrence West | ?m | 35s | Spotlight Development | Sweeny &Co l pre-construction

This has to be a first: this five-tower (35, 29, 27, 26 and ? metres) development in North York aims to offer 70 per cent of its roughly 1,500 housing units as affordable rental or affordable ownership. Near Lawrence West and Black Creek Drive and designed by Sweeny&Co., this would replace yet another out-dated strip mall.


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7-11 Rochefort | 153.1m | 46s | Damis Properties | Diamond Schmitt l pre-construction

46, 41 and 30-storey mixed-use rental and condominium buildings with about 1,300 units and retail near Don Mills and Eglinton. Joining lots of active tall proposals nearby (most of which include rental units).


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Some green masonery on the podium.


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5251 Dundas West | 160.6m | 50s | CentreCourt | BDP Quadrangle l approved (?)

This one is now recommended for approval after a 2 storey haircut and some smaller floorplates. The first of a number of towers on the site on Dundas west of Kipling Avenue.

The tower on the right below.


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Concord Sky | 298.99m | 85s | Concord Adex | a—A l u/c

Second crane base on site has now been completed at the north end (in sunshine). This is happening (whether we like it or not ;-). 299 metres on one end of the site and just under 301 metres on another end… is there a CTBUH “Wannabe” super-tall prize for situations like this ;-)?


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CG Tower | 188.97m | 60s | Cortel Group | BDP Quadrangle l u/c

First brick-cast going up on this one (hopefully looks better in person).


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Still can’t believe this stepped 60 storey flat-iron is going up in the ‘burbs… belongs near the Distillery District lol.


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Festival Condominiums | ?m | 59s | Menkes | IBI Group l u/c

Nearly 2500 residential units in mixed-use towers of 59, 48, 45 and 40 storeys plus public space.


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

In the centre of the photo, more than 1500 rental and condo units (plus public space) in towers of 50, 45 and 35 storeys.


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[Elkhanan1]

The scale of construction and development in the GTA is monumental. Wow!

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

Hope there’s a crane traffic cop at work in this tangle.


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Centre of the photo are the cranes of 160 Front West (TD) and just to the right, the cranes of CIBC Square 2 can be glimpsed.


ADRM

Cranes are right of centre in this great sunset shot.


jackattack

A peak at the core from the Union Station train shed.


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

Only 21 floors but already starting to soar.


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Sugar Wharf Condominiums (Phase 2) | 299m | 90s | Menkes | a—A l site demolition/heritage retention

Wasting no time… never thought the site demo of this big site would progress so quickly.


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Olive Residences | 98.6m | 29s | Capital Developments | IBI Group l pre-construction

A sister project to Azura* up near Yonge and Finch in North York (*which turned out quite well).


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Azura


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Bloor & Dufferin | 128.9m | 37s | Hazelview | Turner Fleischer l site shoring

From the site plan docs… heartbreaking that Hazelview hired TF to trash the gorgeous vision for this site, originally created by Hariri Pontarini.

Sorta looks like the love child of the (dreadful, hulking) ’Time & Space’ and ‘Mirvish Village’ (with apologies to WestBank).


Northern Light

Thank goodness the school will still be restored.


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Some of the POPs, parks and pedestrian promises may be kept.


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Toronto Future Model showing the progression of the classic waterfront skyline view, looking north. GREY buildings are built.

The largest skyline in the city actually runs south to north from the lake, much of it hidden behind these waterfront 'scrapers. Even the towering financial district is slowly being obscured from the waterfront POV. SCROLL a little bit >>>


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NOTE: a number of towers over 200 metres (up to 299 metres) that are coded in pink as 'Proposed" are actually in progress (site demolition and/or site prep).

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Pinnacle One Yonge | 344.58m | 105s | Pinnacle | Hariri Pontarini l u/c


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

Some great interior shots from a recent UrbanToronto tour. First one shows the scale of the (vertical) column-free “fruit” store retail space.


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Exterior of retail.


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The 40 foot sheets of structural glass are fully self-supporting…. so all they had to do is attach them to the building with brackets.


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Corner hangers from the inside.


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Steel supporting the “event space” slab above.


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Cut-out in the ground floor slab for a staircase and elevator.


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Link to a video tour of the interiors: https://youtu.be/O8Fik36lOzo

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Centre foreground is ‘Maverick’, far left is '160 Front West (TD)' and centre + left-centre is the 2 tower 'Nobu'… shot by the aptly named Cranesinthe6ix.


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160 Front West | 239.87m | 46s | Cadillac Fairview | AS + GG l u/c

Fab set by jackattack at UrbanToronto.


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Progress sketches from Contra.


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From CN Tower cam:
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Forma | 308m | 84s | Great Gulf | Gehry Partners l site demolition

Making quick work demo-ing the very large building on site for the 73 storey tower… this below was a few days ago so likely cleared by now.


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Concord Sky | 299m | 85s | Concord Adex | a—A l u/c

First crane going up a few days ago and a second crane install as well.


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Heritage facade viewed from above.


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8 Elm | 218.2m | 69s | Reserve Properties | IBI Group l site demolition

Gettin' busy here... demo + heritage retention.


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Cielo Condos | 99m | 29s | Collecdev | KPMB l heritage retention/site demolition

Will include a new sanctuary hall and offices for the church.


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Some very careful wall retention.


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Pinnacle One Yonge | 344.58m | 105s | Pinnacle | Hariri Pontarini l u/c

Phase 1 "Prestige" looking fine.


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SkyTower podium.


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SkyTower podium rising on the left, Phase 1 on the right.


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[Maldive]

Odd to see none of the 7 or 8 construction cranes at The Well… exteriors closer to the finish line but lots to do inside.


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Portland Commons | 71.7m | 15s | Carttera | Sweeny &Co l u/c

Up to 9 floors at the south end. Though only 15 storeys, this is a very substantial new office building as the south-east view below will attest.


AHK

Very nice glazing with the curtain-wall borders trimmed in bronze tones.


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


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Phase 1 at dusk.


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Phase 2


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Hyatt Place / The 203 Residences on Jarvis | 108.2m | 32s | Manga | IBI Group l u/c

It’s weird but lookin’ great thanks to good materials.


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


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64-86 Bathurst | 68.3m | 17s | Hines | 3XN l u/c

3XN wandered a few blocks north of their waterfront for this handsome addition to Bathurst Street... which has now made it above grade.


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591 Sherbourne | 152.65m | 51s | Medallion | IBI Group l site shoring

Great view of the site from a brand new UrbanToronto member (joined today).


Brinteyspeans

Yes I know it's not under construction ... but give me a break.

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Metropolitan United Church surrounded by nesting cranes (must be the mild weather).


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