Canada's 10 Tallest U/C - Page 99

TorontoDrew · #**1961** Posted **Sep 12, 2015, 4:37 PM**

Well that's what I meant when I said the first and last(for a while) to crack the Top 10 List.

WhipperSnapper · #**1962** Posted **Sep 12, 2015, 4:52 PM**

I don't follow. This is not a static list. Most of these towers will be gone from the list in two years. You're also forgetting One King which even helld the top spot.

caltrane74 · #**1963** Posted **Sep 13, 2015, 10:05 AM**

Finally, got some pictures of 488 University

TorontoDrew · #**1964** Posted **Sep 15, 2015, 4:18 PM**

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Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

I don't follow. This is not a static list. Most of these towers will be gone from the list in two years..

Again, kind of what I said.

TorontoDrew · #**1965** Posted **Sep 15, 2015, 4:19 PM**

Pretty cool shot of One Bloor taken by and posted by Skeezix on urbantoronto.ca

Coldrsx · #**1966** Posted **Sep 16, 2015, 9:35 PM**

Stantec Tower in Edmonton set to be Canada's tallest outside Toronto

GORDON KENT, EDMONTON JOURNAL
More from Gordon Kent, Edmonton Journal
Published on: September 16, 2015 | Last Updated: September 16, 2015 1:46 PM MDT

First the arena, then Connor McDavid, and now Edmonton is going to have a taller building than anything in Calgary.

The Stantec Tower under construction in the downtown Ice District has quietly grown to 66 storeys from 62, making it a 251-metre-high behemoth that will be Canada’s seventh-highest skyscraper.

“Just having the Stantec building at 62 storeys was a huge coup for Edmonton,” Downtown Business Association executive director Jim Taylor said Tuesday.
“If you now tell me that this building is going to surpass anything in Calgary, anything outside Toronto in Canada … this is putting Edmonton on the map as far as the country is concerned, as far as the continent is concerned.”

As well as becoming the Edmonton-based engineering firm’s new headquarters, the project — set to open in 2018 — will also feature about four floors of retail, a grocery store, a pedway to the adjacent hotel and access to a garden roof, according to a development permit released earlier this month.

There will also be 454 condo units on the top 36 floors.

http://edmontonjournal.com/business/...utside-toronto

O-tacular · #**1967** Posted **Sep 16, 2015, 9:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by Coldrsx

Stantec Tower in Edmonton set to be Canada's tallest outside Toronto

GORDON KENT, EDMONTON JOURNAL
More from Gordon Kent, Edmonton Journal
Published on: September 16, 2015 | Last Updated: September 16, 2015 1:46 PM MDT

First the arena, then Connor McDavid, and now Edmonton is going to have a taller building than anything in Calgary.

The Stantec Tower under construction in the downtown Ice District has quietly grown to 66 storeys from 62, making it a 251-metre-high behemoth that will be Canada’s seventh-highest skyscraper.

“Just having the Stantec building at 62 storeys was a huge coup for Edmonton,” Downtown Business Association executive director Jim Taylor said Tuesday.
“If you now tell me that this building is going to surpass anything in Calgary, anything outside Toronto in Canada … this is putting Edmonton on the map as far as the country is concerned, as far as the continent is concerned.”

As well as becoming the Edmonton-based engineering firm’s new headquarters, the project — set to open in 2018 — will also feature about four floors of retail, a grocery store, a pedway to the adjacent hotel and access to a garden roof, according to a development permit released earlier this month.

There will also be 454 condo units on the top 36 floors.

http://edmontonjournal.com/business/...utside-toronto

Maybe within Canada but nowhere else. The design is too conventional to get noticed in the U.S. or Mexico. I like ICE district and the new version of Stantec is much better than the old, but really there's nothing groundbreaking about it. The new arena OTOH is cool enough to get noticed elsewhere.

WhipperSnapper · #**1968** Posted **Sep 16, 2015, 10:15 PM**

Most designs nowadays have some element that tries to be unconventional or stand out. It takes more than that to get noticed. The first design, the placeholder, attempted this. Doubtful anyone will give the tallest outside of Toronto a slightly cocked head and a scratch of the chin. Maybe the tallest in the country as, in this case, 554 metres is pretty damn tall still.

Harrij · #**1969** Posted **Sep 17, 2015, 1:22 AM**

Lol, yeah some of that is pretty over the top. It's just a tower and a well designed one at that, but jeez. I get the excitement, I mean I check the progress of the district every day but I really hope the end product can match some of the uber positive discourse surrounding it.

Daveography · #**1970** Posted **Sep 17, 2015, 8:17 PM**

Stantec:

caltrane74 · #**1971** Posted **Sep 18, 2015, 6:36 PM**

Cool construction updates on Massey Tower

http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads...16188/page-115

TorontoDrew · #**1972** Posted **Sep 18, 2015, 6:45 PM**

Iv'e never seen this much rebar before. They already poured a slab and it looks like they will be making it at least 8 ft thicker.

Posted by Lenser on urbantoronto.ca (Massey)

WhipperSnapper · #**1973** Posted **Sep 18, 2015, 7:10 PM**

Every tower in Calgary needs to be built this way

Same goes for Stantec. Rarely see drill rigs at the bottom of excavations in Toronto. Bedrock is quite shallow here. No need for piles

SaskScraper · #**1974** Posted **Sep 18, 2015, 7:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

Most designs nowadays have some element that tries to be unconventional or stand out. It takes more than that to get noticed. The first design, the placeholder, attempted this. Doubtful anyone will give the tallest outside of Toronto a slightly cocked head and a scratch of the chin. Maybe the tallest in the country as, in this case, 554 metres is pretty damn tall still.

you are right, I doubt Sudbury gets this national attention

Hard to know where to put the CN tower, is it a skyscraper? or a glorified smokestack design based off of the Sudbury INCOStack

caltrane74 · #**1975** Posted **Sep 19, 2015, 4:50 PM**

Crane is going up at Massey Tower

http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads...16188/page-116

softee · #**1976** Posted **Sep 19, 2015, 7:51 PM**

^ The crane is for the St. Michael's hospital expansion, not Massey Tower.

caltrane74 · #**1977** Posted **Sep 19, 2015, 8:27 PM**

I'm sure the crane for Massey Tower, will be coming shortly anyways.

Cannot rely on other members to do work confirming project updates, that is something I should really do myself.

bulliver · #**1978** Posted **Sep 19, 2015, 11:33 PM**

Stantec et al today. Parking is cruising along but apparently another month or so of drilling piles.

Black Star · #**1979** Posted **Sep 20, 2015, 1:02 AM**

Well worth the wait. Love seeing Edmonton's Downtown morph into something very special.

WhipperSnapper · #**1980** Posted **Sep 20, 2015, 1:15 AM**

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Originally Posted by SaskScraper

you are right, I doubt Sudbury gets this national attention

Hard to know where to put the CN tower, is it a skyscraper? or a glorified smokestack design based off of the Sudbury INCOStack

Think the general public isn't going to spend too much time debating over the CN Tower. I don't think they would confuse it's tripod shape with a smokestack.