thanx steveve.
i don't have a ut account -yet. you can post it there as your own if you'd like -i don't mind.
i hereby give you permission. SERIOUSLY!!!
permission expires dec.1st,2009.
-maybe i'll sue you later!
Glass work is moving along on the Casa Condominium project in Toronto. Construction manager DJ Campbell Construction Ltd. began the project - which includes a 47-storey, 404-unit tower atop a five-storey podium - in spring 2007.
The project will also have eight levels of parking.
Cresford Developments is the owner and the project was designed by architectsAlliance.
Consultants are Jablonsky Ast & Partners (structural) and Able Engineering Inc. (mechanical/electrical).
Subtrades include: Magine Contractors (1994) Inc. (excavation); Deep Foundations Contractors Inc. (shoring/caissons); Delgant 2000 Ltd. (formwork); Salit Steel (rebar); Innocon Inc. (concrete supply); University Plumbing & Heating; Jay Electric Ltd.; Roman Metal Fabricating Ltd. (misc. metals); Aluminum Window Designs; and CNIM Canada Group (elevators).
i moved the pictures to this new page. the holes are different sizes but i couldn't make out any particular pattern.
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here's some updates from this morning. i love this metal cladding! talk about different. the effect is really cool. i'm sure there will be backlighting which will look neat coming through those tiny holes. it's like ghery meets tetris..
they were in the process of removing all the hoarding
Ah-ha . . . so you are not just the average 14 year old.
LOL!... I kinda bluffed .. But if i put "the special 14 year old" then it would seem like i'm as "special" as forest gump .. I'm a different kind of special
Sammo!.. I posted your photo on the Crystal Blu UT thread!... "SERIOUSLY!!!".. lol
*And get a UT Account... "SERIOUSLY!!!"... There's a thread for almost everything!
I'm loving the metal cladding however I'm still not convinced on the tower and now podium. It just looks disjointed with all those parts. I do hope our rumoured Fairmont/Raffles hotel follows suit but with slightly less going on.
They are pushing hard for a January opening. The hotel will definately be ready and likely most, if not all, of the condos will be ready for occupancy in time for the Olympics.
BC Ferries will be opening a visitor information/booking centre in the podium to help entice people to travel the coast and visit Vancouver Island. Tourism Vancouver's flagship visitor info centre is across the street and both of these are next door to the Convention Centre, cruise ship terminal and two additional hotels.
I really want to like the Fairmont Pacific Rim. I like individual architectural elements, its massing, and the overall program is great, yet the podium is still is not really working for me. I think it is how the materials meet one another that is my issue, especially how the white marble meets the green spandrel glass. I will echo the comment about a lack of weight or structure at the bottom of the tower on the white marble side. In fact it may be the white marble element's apparent weight that does not really work for me. Call me old fashioned by that much apparent weight just wants some support rather than floating as is the case here. I think they would have done well to simplify their materials pallet by even one element, specifically the white marble or the spandrel glass panels, and maybe even the matte finished granite blocks or the mullion-free glazing above the ballroom.
Anyway, I certainly look forward to seeing how it all looks when the last of the hoarding is down in the coming weeks.
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i just completed a massive update on the toronto international film festival tower should have some updates over the next few days..... this will be a wonderful building and skyscraper edition to the toronto skyline
Did you guys here the joke.. Dubai ran out of Money!!!
Goodloard....... Go ask ur cousins for a loan. -
All Show, no Substance.. even Mississauga has a more developed economy than smoke and mirrors Dubai. When you go broke ask your rich uncle for a loan. (or whatever they gotta do to pay the Europeans back..) Thankfully we didn't participate in this folly.; yet again proving our evil and cunning banks, do have some redeeming qualities.
I like the badass metal tetris thing at the base of Fairmont, but it doesn't work with anything else in the building, like all the dainty light-coloured balconies and railings, the mullions, the dated-looking marble portion of the podium (FCP-style re-clad anytime soon?)... Dunno how the city allows something cool like that for the podium, yet insist on a weak-ass cheng palette for the tower as usual...
Not a huge fan of Absolute world right now... there's something dishonest about creating the "twist" with staggered shear walls, as opposed to structural columns that follow the form. Unfortunately the Ritz in Vancouver might have to follow that path for the redesigned '"affordable" scheme...
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.. But if i put "the special 14 year old" then it would seem like i'm as "special" as forest gump 
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