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1 Bloor East: Site Demolition may begin this month.
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So I added a few more neighbours for 1 Bloor East... obviously these are flat elevations so distance is compressed (eg. St. Joseph St condos). I didn't bother with 18 Yorkville etc. and the X Condo elevation is actually further east... but at least it's a fairly accurate glimpse of Bloor's evolving built form.

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temporary construction elevators being installed on Bay Adelaide site...
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Photo taken January 3. ROCP II is visible between the Toronto New City Hall buildings.



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Not a bad whoop-tee-do though .


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215 Queen St. West.....
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Photos taken January 9 from Bay St looking west. The hoarding is up and they are digging deeper.



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A coffee shop just east of The Met projects on Carlton Street, aptly named. Excellent coffee too, beans are freshly roasted on site.




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next tier of steel frame columns being installed on Bay Adelaide Centre

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Didn't see another thread started yet, so here goes...

Just returned from the second of Adam Vaughan's two "pre-application development proposal presentations" this week. On tonight's roster were this site, the Joker site, 21-31 Widmer, and 60 John / 12+18 Mercer.

The site has been conditionaly-acquired by a trio of developers led by Urban Capital Group (Camden Lofts, Charlotte Lofts and Boutique) and including Malibu Investments (18 Yonge, Malibu Tower at Bathurst/Lakeshore and Gramercy Park in Downsview) and Alit(?). For this site, they commissioned Core Architects to render a 28-storey east-west, slab-like (in the non-perjorative sense) building consisting of a full-lot 8-storey podium with 20-storey, multi-faceted tower. The tower shaft is divided into approximately 8-layers in 4 "bands": "Band 1" coinsists of 4 layers of alternating floorplates of 3 or four stories glad in glass (think of stacked cross-sections of folding screens). "Band 2" is a 2-sorey layer of columns with glass panels set back from the face about 8(?) feet. "Band 3" is a 6-8 storey repeat of the first band, with only two alternating layers of panels. "Band 5" is the bulding's hat, which is of the peaked beret form.

I've requested renders. In the meantime, the architect made reference to a building in Europe that served as inspiration that I'll try to find.

The developer announced (by way of softening the crowd prior to revealing the building's design and height) that it had bought out the leases of the three existing club tenants at great expense (some of which, he claimed, had terms up to 15 years including renewal rights). Tonic will be closed "immediately" and the other two clubs will stay until demolition. During the discussion phase, many people offered their thanks. On more than one occasion, people who spoke out against the size or design of the building were remined by the subsequent commenter of what the building would replace.

The building is situated along an angular part of Richmond as it jogs south just before intersecting with Peter. The building retains that general angle in its northern face and so it is off-kilter to the "natural" Toronto grid axes. The "diagonal" effect is noticeable at all elevations, but the effect is lessened above the podium by the off-kilter poses of the bands on the tower's shaft.
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Old Posted Jan 11, 2008, 8:52 PM
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I'm pretty sure that the picture for Bay Adelaide East Tower on the 400 foot list is actually showing the North Tower:


This shows them from a different angle, the white tower on the right is the North Tower, and the white tower on the left is the East Tower which is hidden in the previous picture:


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Bay Adelaide... total project
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Off topic: Great show on CBC marketplace on condo builders who pull a bait & switch and get away with it due to the complex wording in the documents.

http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/2008/01/09/condo_crunch/
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Thanks for the update!!!
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More of the 'hoarding' is going up today:



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Old Posted Jan 14, 2008, 3:09 PM
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Core frames rising on Bay Adelaide.. only 5 days after they were raised previously..... ( i.e Wednesday of last week)



We will have issues with the webcam shortly....the building will go out of range.....
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