TORONTO| Bell Lightbox-Festival Tower | 514 FT / 158 M | 42 FLOORS
 

This tower has been under construction for a while now in downtown Toronto...it consists of a condo tower on top of a large podium containing several cinemas; the podium will eventually become the headquarters of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)....

a few renders as posted at torontoist.com...

http://torontoist.com/attachments/to...ghtbox7_01.jpg

http://torontoist.com/attachments/to.../lightbox7.jpg

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construction pics to follow!

initial excavation, April 2007, pic by gbelan at urbantoronto.ca....

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cranes going up Nov, 2007, pic by current at SSC...

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June 2008, pic by Architecturefan at urbantoronto...

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podium taking shape Feb, 2009...pic by CSW2424 at urbantoronto...

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1433/...7099378b_b.jpg

June 10, 2009, pic by caltrane74 at urbantoronto..

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3311/...88427518_b.jpg

July 16, 2009, pic by greenleaf at urbantoronto...tower starting to show above the podium...

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2566/...7d5c36c3_b.jpg


August 5, 2009, pic by caltrane74....

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2673/...cbd32a8a_b.jpg

August 7, 2009, pic by drum118 at urbantoronto...

http://davidfisher.biz/photo/2009/au...08-09-0081.jpg

hey hey hey!!

Thanks yyzer... i gotta put one of my pictures in here!!

oh shit you already did!!

oh cool!!

Wicked wicked building...no doubt.

podium update....pics by drum118 at urbantoronto.ca.......

http://davidfisher.biz/photo/2009/au...14-09-0178.jpg

http://davidfisher.biz/photo/2009/au...14-09-0179.jpg

Here's a photo I took yesterday of Festival Tower...

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3421/...33c6593d_b.jpg

All photos by me: steveve

Enjoy :)

Check these out! Pix from the inside of the building...

http://www.ctv.ca/gallery/html/TIFF_...1/photo_0.html

by me..

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2509/...73bdc28f_b.jpg

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demonizan the street with this podium here!!!!

Nice looking tower. The base looks Festive...

:D

THIS IS EMBARRASSING!!!

There is only 1 PAGE in this thread!!!!.. nice shots though :D

Oops... wrong thread...

Here's some shots I took yesterday...

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CMON now... the CN Tower ain't THAT tall!... -the moon!

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All photos by me: steveve

Such a cool modern looking building...right beside that retro, dated eyesore Holiday Inn!!! I was in the area recently and noticed that they painted the bottom part of it black to make it look more sleek :tup:

IMO, festival tower (the tower itself) is not very architecturally unique but the podium makes up for it!

I would have liked something more unique for such a special building!:rolleyes:

Wow, nice progresssion on this building...should be getting quite tall now...

More by me

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by me

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Nice shots caltrane!!!!

The podium looks classy!

***WHY DOES THIS THREAD HAVE ONLY 1 PAGE COMPARED TO UT?
:)

we are the only 2 toronto forumers heree... unlike UT, which has over 1000 members..

Toronto memebers at SSP

me
u
goodlookin/sacamano
yyzer
tony
mark
and a couple others...

Too true :(

IMO the only reason UT is somewhat better is because it has SOOO many more members... (and more threads)... it's also dedicated for TORONTO...

***Skyscraperpage has a HUGE member list INTERNATIONALLY and has AWESOME (and epic ;) ) SKYSCRAPER Drawings!!!!! SSP is legit in that sense..

** I think skyscraperpage looks nicer too (more colourful compared to UT's pale blue colour :yuck: )...

I like SSP better cause it's a nicer place to chill.... But i absolutely had to get a UT account :cool:

Thanks guy for giving us updates on Toronto! I don't generally have time to look at UT and being in Halifax, the SSP posts have kept me up in the loop with Toronto development.

I'm loving everything I have seen and it will be a completely different city than it was when I lived there. I plan on taking full advantage when I eventually move back.

Wow. I love the podium/base on this building. The tower is so/so, (hard to tell from the rendering) but the base is really attractive. I like it very much.