Bay Adelaide Centre West Tower (Brookfield, 50s, WZMH)

Those don't look like fins they look like the glass for the framework for the glass on the final floor...

Take a look at the west side of the tower, there is obvious aluminum or sliver metalic framing which is coming out of the steel frame work on the top level. - This framing when covered (in glass.. I assume) will be high enough to obscure the remaining portion of the concrete core above the steel beamed floors & roof.

caltrane74 said:

Take a look at the west side of the tower, there is obvious aluminum or sliver metalic framing which is coming out of the steel frame work on the top level. - This framing when covered (in glass.. I assume) will be high enough to obscure the remaining portion of the concrete core above the steel beamed floors & roof.

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This shiny framing is working its way around to the south side in the last few hours. It will be interesting to see how high it will be when finished, at present I do not think it will hide the top of the core.

Attention News/Assignment Editors:

Media Advisory - Final beam to be set atop Toronto's Bay Adelaide Centre
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Mayor David Miller and construction teams to leave their mark at topping-
off ceremony
>>

TORONTO, Sept. 19 /CNW/ - On Tuesday, September 23, Brookfield Properties
Corporation president and CEO Ric Clark will be joined by Toronto Mayor
David Miller, guests and over 300 of the men and women who helped construct
Toronto's Bay Adelaide Centre, to celebrate the official topping off of the
city's newest commercial tower.
Built to a LEED Gold Standard, Bay Adelaide Centre is the first
significant development in Toronto's financial core since Brookfield Place
(formerly BCE Place) was completed in 1992.
All guests will be invited to sign a 10 metre-long gold-plated steel
beam, which will be set into place as a symbol of the building reaching its
highest structural point.

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WHAT: TOPPING-OFF CEREMONY OF BAY ADELAIDE CENTRE

WHERE: TEMPERANCE STREET - USE BAY STREET ENTRANCE
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Temperance Street will be closed between Yonge and Bay Streets
North side of Bay Adelaide Centre

WHO: Ric Clark, president and CEO, Brookfield Properties Corporation
Toronto Mayor David Miller
Over 300 of the men and women who helped build the Bay Adelaide
Centre

WHEN: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 at 1:30 PM

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TIME AGENDA/PHOTO OPS
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1:30 - 2:00 PM Signing of the topping-off beam by the men and women
who built Bay Adelaide Centre
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2:15 PM Toronto Mayor David Miller and Ric Clark, president
and CEO, Brookfield Properties Corporation, sign the
topping-off beam; joined by representatives of Bay
Adelaide Centre's construction teams
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2:30 PM Remarks by Ric Clark, president and CEO, Brookfield
Properties Corporation and Toronto Mayor David Miller
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2:40 PM Toronto Mayor David Miller to signal the raising of
the topping-off beam
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2:45 PM The topping-off beam is hoisted 51 storeys and set
atop Bay Adelaide Centre West Tower
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From Saturday morning with the frame of the fins in position.

So we are getting the fins. Why did we think we weren't?

ganjavih said:

So we are getting the fins. Why did we think we weren't?

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Lowered expectations.

So we are getting the fins. Why did we think we weren't?

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I believe the original plan called for "horizontal fins" at the corners, which were replaced by FCP-style "indentation."

We're getting the fins ... why so sad? Well, I had hoped for some last minute "refinements" on the top. A boring box could have turned into something very interesting with an iconic top.

I've always liked the cathedral top that was part of the original plans for BA.

ganjavih said:

So we are getting the fins. Why did we think we weren't?

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The fins were originally way higher. These are cheapened budget compromise fins.


Here's a rendering with the fins that we are not getting:

ganjavih said:

So we are getting the fins. Why did we think we weren't?

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The original fins were supposed to be the height of a full floor + mechanical and were replaced with another floor or leasable space, and a short lip that will go around the entire top of the building. They wont be as noticeable from the ground since they will wrap around. It will look like just another floor.

Edit: oops... should have scrolled down first. grey got it.

BA from Christie Pitts:

Hey, it'd be neat with fins

The east side of the top is looking conspicuously unfinished. I have a sneaking suspicion that there will be some pressure to perform between now and 2pm Tuesday...