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.
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. Cranes, Mississauga, June 13th by Draulerin Photographics, on Flickr
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.
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.
The One | 338.3m | 94s | Mizrahi Developments | Foster + Partners l u/c
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).
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).
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 ;-).