barrytron3030
Active Member
sorry to everyone. i'll stop.
Toronto Festival Tower and tiff Bell Lightbox | 156.96m | 42s | Daniels | KPMB
Automation Gallery
Superstar
Sorry about that.
isaidso
Senior Member
A blank wall isn't very festive and certainly won't help conjure up images of a 'Light Box'. What cladding will go on this part? The render suggests some stone or tiling, but some richer flashier material would be better.
That Louis Vuitton store in Hong Kong has a superb exterior that would look dynamite on this podium. I've always hoped for a glitzy exterior to reflect the events the Lightbox will host, but we're getting a facade far more conservative instead. LV sure does luxury and glamour well though:
BLING!
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astroturf
New Member
Wow - that truly is a 'lightbox'.
Uncle Teddy
Senior Member
That would be amazing!
grey
Senior Member
I wouldn't mind blank walls if they aimed projectors at them and played movies, like those cars you see around town projecting commercials onto the sides of buildings.
DaninToronto
Active Member
Taken today:
Ramako
Moderator
Now, that's progress.
khris
Senior Member
Nice progress. They'll be starting on the tower portion soon.
condovo
Senior Member
My. That is big. Isn't it?
grey
Senior Member
It certainly has grown, hasn't it?
Ramako
Moderator
Indeed.
p5connex
Active Member
This thing is going to eat you, beat you and and spit you out when you walk past it. And the worst part is after it is all over, it will never call you.
Honestly though, the podium is going to hang over you as you walk past - those renderings are extremely deceiving as well as incorrect...
p5
Honestly though, the podium is going to hang over you as you walk past - those renderings are extremely deceiving as well as incorrect...
p5
barrytron3030
Active Member
i love it. george orwell could not have asked for more. i joke, but yes, that IS progress. i can't wait to watch movies in this thing.
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
From the Post:
Letter from Downtown: Tough talk about a soft condo market
Posted: January 23, 2009, 9:37 PM by Barry Hertz
Real estate, Kuitenbrouwer
The Daniels Corp., one of Toronto’s premier condominium and home developers, was talking tough about the future on Friday, as hundreds gathered to sip coffee, eat doughnuts and sign a prodigious girder that will rest atop the Bell Lightbox, the future home of the Toronto International Film Festival.
“We don’t have any trouble getting financing,” says Tom Dutton, senior vice-president at Daniels, “because we have this guy, Mr. Daniels, who has a golden pen, and the banks love him.”
Even so, it is worth noting that although this shindig is billed as a “topping-off ceremony,” the 42-storey tower, which will include a five-storey home for TIFF with five movie theatres, is currently only four storeys high.
“It’s not what I would call a traditional topping-off,” Mr. Dutton says. “This represents a major milestone in the construction of the building. We’re on schedule right now, but we don’t have a final completion date. Early next year or mid-next year.”
And even as people cheer on King Street, there are signs across Toronto that our tower-building craze is on the wane. One casualty stands at the corner of Harbour and Bay streets, across from the Westin Harbour Castle: a one-storey, cast cement stump.
Round columns support a cement pad roof. But the untouched pure white snow around the base tells the story: this project, the fourth tower of the Pinnacle Centre condos, is halted. Rebar rusts under a snowdrift.
“This was supposed to be 50 storeys,” Mario Seixeiro, a worker with Preform, said at the site on Friday. “We started in February and got five levels of parking built, then one storey up from ground level, they shut it down in July-August, because no money. Our company lost money over there.”
At Pinnacle headquarters in Vancouver, marketing consultant Grace Kwok said, “We are doing the third tower, and the fourth tower may be delayed a little bit. But that is quite normal in this market. Most of the developers are going slow right now.”
Meanwhile, everyone who walks by the Trump Tower, at Bay and Adelaide streets, stops and stares at the project, and asks the workers whether there is truth to rumours that the project is dead. But workers are busy pouring cement. Howard Tikka, director of marketing, called from Phoenix to insist that, “we’re moving along.
There’s still 25% of the building left to sell. While other people have been struggling, we’re full speed ahead.”
Councillor Adam Vaughan (Ward 20, Trinity-Spadina), is very worried about the slowdown; developers have stopped knocking on his door, he says. Still, he predicts projects already in the approvals pipeline, such as a 44-storey Daniels tower north of the Bell Lightbox, and a 42-storey Pinnacle tower next door, will eventually get built.
“In fact there is no problem with financing, but a general slump in condo sales is creating a concern across the industry about how soon projects will get started and it’s not unique to any one company. Daniels are one of the healthiest companies in the city.”
David Pontarini is the architect for the 42-storey Pinnacle project, at Adelaide and John streets. He said an urban design review by the City of Toronto has slowed that job, not market conditions. But he admits he may shave a few storeys off the tower as demand slows.
“Right now it’s 42 storeys,” he said. “That will evolve. Everyone is waiting to see what the market is doing.”
Back on Harbour Street, Mr. Seixeiro is hooking re-bar on to a crane to complete the final, 53rd floor of the third Pinnacle tower. A father of four who lives in Hamilton, Mr. Seixeiro, 45, has worked 27 years in construction, in a unionized job with Local 183. He has enough money to retire, and is in line for a pension of about $3,000 a month.
But many fret about the future, he says. “Everybody is worried: steelmen, carpenters, electricians, plumbers, metal guys.”
He finishes his cigarette and spits into the snow. His walkie-talkie squawks to life. “OK, I have to go back to work,” he says.
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/...own-tough-talk-about-a-soft-condo-market.aspx
AoD
PS: Try to refrain from information-free single sentence postings, shall we?
Letter from Downtown: Tough talk about a soft condo market
Posted: January 23, 2009, 9:37 PM by Barry Hertz
Real estate, Kuitenbrouwer
The Daniels Corp., one of Toronto’s premier condominium and home developers, was talking tough about the future on Friday, as hundreds gathered to sip coffee, eat doughnuts and sign a prodigious girder that will rest atop the Bell Lightbox, the future home of the Toronto International Film Festival.
“We don’t have any trouble getting financing,” says Tom Dutton, senior vice-president at Daniels, “because we have this guy, Mr. Daniels, who has a golden pen, and the banks love him.”
Even so, it is worth noting that although this shindig is billed as a “topping-off ceremony,” the 42-storey tower, which will include a five-storey home for TIFF with five movie theatres, is currently only four storeys high.
“It’s not what I would call a traditional topping-off,” Mr. Dutton says. “This represents a major milestone in the construction of the building. We’re on schedule right now, but we don’t have a final completion date. Early next year or mid-next year.”
And even as people cheer on King Street, there are signs across Toronto that our tower-building craze is on the wane. One casualty stands at the corner of Harbour and Bay streets, across from the Westin Harbour Castle: a one-storey, cast cement stump.
Round columns support a cement pad roof. But the untouched pure white snow around the base tells the story: this project, the fourth tower of the Pinnacle Centre condos, is halted. Rebar rusts under a snowdrift.
“This was supposed to be 50 storeys,” Mario Seixeiro, a worker with Preform, said at the site on Friday. “We started in February and got five levels of parking built, then one storey up from ground level, they shut it down in July-August, because no money. Our company lost money over there.”
At Pinnacle headquarters in Vancouver, marketing consultant Grace Kwok said, “We are doing the third tower, and the fourth tower may be delayed a little bit. But that is quite normal in this market. Most of the developers are going slow right now.”
Meanwhile, everyone who walks by the Trump Tower, at Bay and Adelaide streets, stops and stares at the project, and asks the workers whether there is truth to rumours that the project is dead. But workers are busy pouring cement. Howard Tikka, director of marketing, called from Phoenix to insist that, “we’re moving along.
There’s still 25% of the building left to sell. While other people have been struggling, we’re full speed ahead.”
Councillor Adam Vaughan (Ward 20, Trinity-Spadina), is very worried about the slowdown; developers have stopped knocking on his door, he says. Still, he predicts projects already in the approvals pipeline, such as a 44-storey Daniels tower north of the Bell Lightbox, and a 42-storey Pinnacle tower next door, will eventually get built.
“In fact there is no problem with financing, but a general slump in condo sales is creating a concern across the industry about how soon projects will get started and it’s not unique to any one company. Daniels are one of the healthiest companies in the city.”
David Pontarini is the architect for the 42-storey Pinnacle project, at Adelaide and John streets. He said an urban design review by the City of Toronto has slowed that job, not market conditions. But he admits he may shave a few storeys off the tower as demand slows.
“Right now it’s 42 storeys,” he said. “That will evolve. Everyone is waiting to see what the market is doing.”
Back on Harbour Street, Mr. Seixeiro is hooking re-bar on to a crane to complete the final, 53rd floor of the third Pinnacle tower. A father of four who lives in Hamilton, Mr. Seixeiro, 45, has worked 27 years in construction, in a unionized job with Local 183. He has enough money to retire, and is in line for a pension of about $3,000 a month.
But many fret about the future, he says. “Everybody is worried: steelmen, carpenters, electricians, plumbers, metal guys.”
He finishes his cigarette and spits into the snow. His walkie-talkie squawks to life. “OK, I have to go back to work,” he says.
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/...own-tough-talk-about-a-soft-condo-market.aspx
AoD
PS: Try to refrain from information-free single sentence postings, shall we?