Urban Toronto returns to the Ritz-Carlton's construction site to check out the lobby... They have a long way to go with the lobby still: the current aim is to open the hotel in time for the Toronto International Film Festival. I hope they make it on time. (Same for another building a couple short blocks from here...)
The mezzanine bridge that crosses the lobby from one side to the other is currently protected from construction.
Once construction is finished, the bridge will no longer be a visual barrier at all...
Another set up stairs to the mezzanine:
Plastering underway by the front doors.
Work underway in the area of the Lobby Bar.
These windows look through to the back patio, currently fenced off from the park.
This canopy will protect the back patio from winds sweeping down the south wall of the tower.
The panels above the patio take on curving patterns when the sun hits them, suddenly creating play with the panels containing the corrugations:
And there you go, that's our tour of the Ritz-Carlton. Many thanks again to our hosts David Eisenstadt and Tom Bulkovic!
Tomorrow, we'll take you back in and up for city views that we saw from the tower. The previous article in this series appears here. The next article in this series appears here.
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