Canada's 10 Tallest U/C - Page 50

Chadillaccc · #**981** Posted **Sep 17, 2014, 7:23 PM**

Brookfield Place West - 247 meters

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caltrane74 · #**982** Posted **Sep 17, 2014, 7:49 PM**

Cladding going up!!

from salsa at urbantoronto

uzi · #**983** Posted **Sep 17, 2014, 11:31 PM**

this thing is freaking awesome.

caltrane74 · #**984** Posted **Sep 18, 2014, 1:25 PM**

21 Floors down, 54 more floors to go.

Attention now shifts from Yonge and Dundas (Aura) to Yonge and Bloor!

SkahHigh · #**985** Posted **Sep 18, 2014, 2:57 PM**

Wow, One Bloor looks awesome!

isaidso · #**986** Posted **Sep 18, 2014, 3:08 PM**

Every time I get depressed looking at Bay-Adelaide East, Bremner, Pinnacle, PWC, the Mercer, and 50 other mind numbing buildings I look at One Bloor. Beautiful. If only we had more buildings like this. Telus Sky in Calgary and Mirvish-Gehry in Toronto are others I'm eagerly awaiting.

vanman · #**987** Posted **Sep 18, 2014, 8:20 PM**

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Originally Posted by caltrane74

Cladding going up!!

from salsa at urbantoronto

I guess we will find out shortly if the curtain wall will pass the podium level.

Nouvellecosse · #**988** Posted **Sep 18, 2014, 8:37 PM**

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Originally Posted by isaidso

Every time I get depressed looking at Bay-Adelaide East, Bremner, Pinnacle, PWC, the Mercer, and 50 other mind numbing buildings I look at One Bloor. Beautiful. If only we had more buildings like this. Telus Sky in Calgary and Mirvish-Gehry in Toronto are others I'm eagerly awaiting.

Yeah if the ratio of boring buildings to attractive buildings is 50:1 that really doesn't bode well.

steveve · #**989** Posted **Sep 18, 2014, 10:07 PM**

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I guess we will find out shortly if the curtain wall will pass the podium level.

I assume it will carry on the full length of the tower on the non-balcony covered areas (the flat waves). Whether it will cover the rest is up in the air. I have my doubts though since frosted balcony glazing would only cover it up. a stunner where it counts though

isaidso · #**990** Posted **Sep 21, 2014, 2:03 AM**

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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse

Yeah if the ratio of boring buildings to attractive buildings is 50:1 that really doesn't bode well.

It would be nice to get that ratio down around 10:1.

WhipperSnapper · #**991** Posted **Sep 21, 2014, 1:20 PM**

PWC and Bremner are quality towers although I would agree too much of anything is not a good thing. Pinnacle on Adelaide is pretty solid for a residential tower too. You depress too easily particularly if you're awaiting Mirvish.

rbt · #**992** Posted **Sep 21, 2014, 4:50 PM**

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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse

Yeah if the ratio of boring buildings to attractive buildings is 50:1 that really doesn't bode well.

What do you suppose the ratio is in New York or Hong Kong?

caltrane74 · #**993** Posted **Sep 22, 2014, 12:02 AM**

Speaking of PWC and Bremner Towers

uzi · #**994** Posted **Sep 22, 2014, 1:04 AM**

nice shot! looks like those buildings are carved out of ice blocks

caltrane74 · #**995** Posted **Sep 22, 2014, 1:52 AM**

More Sunlife/Harbourplaza

isaidso · #**996** Posted **Sep 22, 2014, 2:10 AM**

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What do you suppose the ratio is in New York or Hong Kong?

I've not been to Hong Kong, but Manhattan has enough fabulous architecture to compensate for the pedestrian, mediocre, and/or ugly. Toronto's heading in the right direction, but currently we don't have enough of the great to distract us from the rest. Judging by the current slate of proposals, the core will get to a point where we have a better balance and the Bremners and Maple Leaf Squares of the downtown will start fading into the background.

Mirvish-Ghery, Massey, One Bloor, and 45 Bay can't happen soon enough. The core will need another 20-30 buildings of that calibre to get to a good ratio.

Beedok · #**997** Posted **Sep 22, 2014, 2:21 AM**

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Originally Posted by isaidso

I've not been to Hong Kong, but Manhattan has enough fabulous architecture to compensate for the pedestrian, mediocre, and/or ugly. Toronto's heading in the right direction, but currently we don't have enough of the great to distract us from the rest. Judging by the current slate of proposals, the core will get to a point where we have a better balance and the Bremners and Maple Leaf Squares of the downtown will start fading into the background.

Mirvish-Ghery, Massey, One Bloor, and 45 Bay can't happen soon enough. The core will need another 20-30 buildings of that calibre to get to a good ratio.

Hong Kong's power seems to be the uniform plainness of the whole thing. If Toronto were to build massive swarms of standard but decent quality buildings like Maple Leaf Square it could get a Hong Kong vibe going. Just glass rather than concrete.

caltrane74 · #**998** Posted **Sep 22, 2014, 7:59 AM**

There are a few Towers in the top 10 that get very few updates..this is one of those projects

10 York

Chadillaccc · #**999** Posted **Sep 27, 2014, 1:46 AM**

Shit, forgot about Ten York. Toronto is still fully on fire!

caltrane74 · #**1000** Posted **Sep 27, 2014, 1:58 AM**

10 York is gonna suck!

Its just pure Tridel nonsense.. I wish it was in Etobicoke, it will block the beautiful ICE Towers from the lake view. We should give it to Montreal or Vancouver.