TORONTO | Ritz-Carlton Toronto | 699 FT / 213 M | 53 FLOORS

[caltrane74]

lordmandeep posted this info over at SSC - making a thread for SSP which has none.


Address - 183 Wellington Street
Designation - Condominium, Hotel
Status - Approved/Starting Construction this week
Height - 213m/700 feet
Floors - 53
Units - 267 suites

http://www.theresidencestoronto.com/flash/main.htm

Description
-First Five-Star Hotel in Toronto
-267 Rooms
-135 Condominium Units

Joint collaboration between Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) Associates Architects (N.Y.) and Page + Steele Architects Planners (Toronto)

5-level podium containing two large ballrooms, fine-dining restaurants, conference and meeting facilites. Top podium floor will contain Toronto's largest and most luxurious spa (23,000 sq. ft.)
Floors 6-20 Hotel suites
Floors 22-52 condominiums
Floors 21 & 22 will contain private lobby and amenity centre for residents.
Suite prices start at $700,000 to over $8 million. Penthouse will be $11 million.
Also the Penthouse was sold to some guy from Dubai.





http://www.skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=36625

Thanks to 3Dementia – urbantoronto.ca

[Fabb]

I like the slender side.
Hopefully, the cladding will be semi-transparent like it shows in the rendering.

[dallasbrink]

Another Ritz?
These guys are building them like crazy

[TOBoy]

Taken by Paul451 of Urbantoronto.ca

[Jarrod]

Looks nice, but the one that they're building in Vancouver looks a lot nicer

[Mininari]

Originally Posted by Jarrod

Looks nice, but the one that they're building in Vancouver looks a lot nicer

Whats funny, is this one LOOKS like the original design for the one in vancouver!
At least from the side... the second image down: take a good look at it.

Now go to the Vancouver Ritz Carleton and look at the original 167M proposal.
It has the SAME box podium with the remainder glass, and the top is a taper "triangular" roofcap.

Hmm... Coincidence?
Or am I just seeing things?

[Aleks]

Hey Mininari, I noticed that too. When I saw the first rendering I was like, WHAT? They changed the design back to the old one?

But then I read the title and it said TORONTO and I thought this was kind of weird. I think they want to save money by building the old design and not having to design a new tower. Get what I'm saying?

Also if anybody working for the Ritz reads this (which I hardly think will happen) Please make one in Seattle!!

[gudalemandele]

I love it..

I miss a picture of the backside though =/

[caltrane74]

Originally Posted by Jarrod

Looks nice, but the one that they're building in Vancouver looks a lot nicer

This one is taller.

yay!

[yarabundi]

Originally Posted by TOBoy

Taken by Paul451 of Urbantoronto.ca

So, that's where it's gonna be !! On Front street, across the street from the Convention Center. It will add density on this part of town !!

[caltrane74]

Night Time shots or RBC-Ritz






courtesy of Redroom Studios - urbantoronto.ca

[caltrane74]

stuff I found on flickr.com

courtesy of frax ac

[yarabundi]

What's the fourth crane on the background ?

[Complex01]

Kewl, what a nice looking building...

[francely57]

Originally Posted by yarabundi

What's the fourth crane on the background ?

It's for the RBC building, a ~183m tower also under construction on the same block! There are like 5 or more cranes in that block...

[KevinFromTexas]

I'm kind of out of the loop on this project. Is this the same one that had been proposed a couple of years ago for Toronto that would have been a 900 footer? Did they change plans, or is this a separate tower? I like the old design better I think. That spire was gorgeous.

Still, this one is good too. I really like the base.

[jaymckay]

^^
Your probably thinking of the old Ritz location where the Trump tower is now going. The Trump Toronto will be over 900' and they just had the 'gold shovel' groundbreaking--but unlike the Ritz, Trump doesn't seem to be in a hurry. Both seem to to be well designed, imo.

[TOBoy]

This Ritz Carlton is located at Simcoe street and Wellington street. The former Ritz (now Trump as Jaymckay mentioned) is located at Bay street and Adelaide street.

[caltrane74]

updates?

[FastFerrari82]

thats a pretty nice looking pit there. Looks like work is going good and looks pretty clean for a consturction site. Cant wait for some new updates.