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caltrane74 · #41 Posted: **Apr 12, 2008, 8:06 PM**

A couple of points on RBC:

1. The tower looks really really bulky from ground level. But from this picture you can see it will be very very sleek and tall. Sleeker and Taller than Simcoe Place, which is on of the favorite Toronto Office Towers. (50 Meters taller than Simcoe Place)

2. Looks like on the 11th floor we will have to deal with vents instead of windows. Thankfully its facing inside and onto the court. So should not take away from the exterior of the building. (at least not too much)

3. The podium on the other side of the building looks like it up to about the 3rd floor from these pictures. - This podium is a large part of the project. I went to the PCL website it stated this project is 1.77 million sq feet. - Funny I thought it was just 1.2 million sq feet max. ( By the Way ..they gave the total sq footage on Scotiaplaza at 2.2 million sq feet..so it is larger than The Bow, and that makes sense given it is 40 Meters taller.)

4. Compared to Bay Adelaide this project seems to take forever to rise, they are doing a great job with the glass cladding, but pretty soon BA will catch RBC there as well. in the past 2 or 3 weeks, BA has added 1 storey of glass cladding to the tower. BA being steel has now caught and surpassed RBC in height, and will likely finish up at least 3 or 4 months before RBC, even though RBC had a 4 month head start on construction.

5. WTF is up with Ritz? It seems to be taking forever to get out of the ground, I understand they are working on the Podium and these things take forever. I'm just reassured by the website which says the tower should take off by summer and be at about 26 or 27 floors by fall. But watching RBC slow concrete rise I am not too sure about that ....

caltrane74 · #42 Posted: **Apr 15, 2008, 1:10 PM**

RBC Centre Got it's Vented Windows!!!

image courtesy of sjgardiner on www.flickr.com

3madjack · #43 Posted: **Apr 19, 2008, 2:53 AM**

Is there like only two people on the Ritz construction crew? Is that why it's taking so long? Versus BA and RBC, I mean, come on. Helen Keller could have built the Ritz faster.

RBC is looking fine.

caltrane74 · #44 Posted: **Apr 19, 2008, 9:34 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Skybean

April 2008

Construction continues on schedule. Concrete slabs are being poured for floor levels 19, 20, 21 and 22. Forming and pouring of the third floor slab in the north podium area is being completed and forming of the fourth floor will start soon. Erection of structural steel for the new loading dock on the south side of the podium at the ground floor level has commenced. Curtain wall installation in the tower will be completed on levels 11, 12 and 13. Elevator installation will continue in the high rise bank and service elevators. Mechanical and electrical trades will continue with their rough ins throughout the tower floors. Concrete block installation will continue on the tower office floors at the washrooms and elevator shafts. The Ritz-Carlton continues pouring the ground floor slab as well as the vertical walls and columns from level 2 to level 3 slab.

source: http://www.rbccentre.ca/

rbc

neat shot on www.flickr.com from kimichi sugar

caltrane74 · #45 Posted: **Apr 25, 2008, 5:12 AM**

RBC from above

from svoisen at www.flickr.com

Surrealplaces · #46 Posted: **Apr 25, 2008, 6:59 PM**

This one's looking good. I like the glass facade on it. Can't wait to see it fully completed.

caltrane74 · #47 Posted: **Apr 27, 2008, 10:10 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Andrew3D

Saturday April 26th

Andrew ..www.urbantoronto.ca

caltrane74 · #48 Posted: **Apr 28, 2008, 2:09 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kamuix

decided to try and draw the rbc construction status and compare it to the finished one, let me know what you think =]

Bay Adelaide and RBC -

from Kamuix of UT/SSP posted at: www.urbantoronto.ca

caltrane74 · #49 Posted: **Apr 30, 2008, 2:44 PM**

RBC

Quote:

Originally Posted by current

April 29

From Simcoe Park looking east.

from current at www.urbantoronto.ca

caltrane74 · #50 Posted: **May 5, 2008, 3:19 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by urbandreamer

...walking along Wellington West today who could resist a few shots at the competition?

Balanced and fair? That's me, Urbandreamer.

from urbandreamer on www.urbantoronto.ca

Phil McAvity · #51 Posted: **May 6, 2008, 7:11 AM**

Caltrane 74, the difference between 486 feet and 600 feet is about 35 meters so this building will not tower over Simcoe Place by 50 meters.

I think the best thing about this building isn't the building at all, it's the location. It's in a part of downtown that is in dire need of skyscrapers and will help spread out the all-too-focused Toronto skyline as evidenced by the fact Simcoe Place towers over everything else in the vicinity .