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

[grey]

So unfortunate that our super-cool new City Hall was built right behind the frigging financial district where the most lucrative and desirable commercial property is and where large companies are most likely to have supertalls constructed, but instead are forced to max out around 40-60 storeys because of shadows.

Not the greatest foresight back then! Then again, who could have predicted that our own City Hall would become the most powerful NIMBY force the city has ever seen?

 

[alklay]

You guys have got to be kidding.

Not only is there no indication that the present design has anything to do with City Hall shadow issues, but there is no indication that any commercial developer has had any desire during the last 30 years to build an office tower, anywhere in the city, that would qualify as a 'supertall' (whatever the f@ck that is).

So why should I care about city hall shadow issues again?

 

[down on the upside]

Another perspective from a news site:

LINK

 

[CanadianNational]

I finally saw the cladding today. (Haven't been out much, I guess!)
April 24, 2008

 

[caltrane74]

Thanks for the update!!

The glass looks really good.

 

[urbandreamer]

I'm gonna make a curtainwall coffee table. Which one will sell out first: BA or RBC?

 

[Redroom Studios]

ha - UD, depends which site you sneak onto and steal the glass from!

CN - nice pics, I really like the black and white one with that gritty old building in the foreground!

 

[Geekaroo]

Some Pics From Wednesday

A couple days old - which shows with the curtainwall. It's going on at an incredible speed.

 

[Ziggy]

Core forms were raised again this morning.

 

[Conrad Black]

Thanks for the updates.

 

[current]

April 23

From Osgoode Hall.

You can just see the weather panels.

From James St between the Eaton Centre and Old City Hall looking south.

 

[syn]

I have to admit, I'm liking the glass a lot more than I thought I would.

 

[SP!RE]

Me too. It has a powerfully corporate look, not something we're used to in Toronto since the 80s and 90s.

I really am impressed with this one!

 

[egotrippin]

BA is certainly lookin' good, the glass looks better each time I see it. That lump of towers that includes 390 Bay really are eyesores though. Too bad something nicer didn't anchor that corner, as they look like the building equivalent of a wood picket fence or something. I don't know, I just really dislike them.

The Sheraton Centre sucks too, but that's a whole other can of worms.

 

[Edward Skira]

First bits of cladding for the facade part has started to go up.