Collingwoodbuildinglover
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Yeah I kind of wonder how many cubic meters of concrete will be involved . This will be a lot of trucks that is for sure
Toronto Pinnacle One Yonge | 351.85m | 106s | Pinnacle | Hariri Pontarini
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khaldoon
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The Well had one or two.
innsertnamehere
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One Bloor East? One Bloor W had a massive slab pour at the bottom of the pit from what I recall - and as Khaldoon mentioned, so did the Well.
ProjectEnd
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Yeah, One Bloor East. Hard to believe this is over 10 years ago now...
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And 4 years before that:
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The Big Pour Turns Heads at One Bloor East | UrbanToronto
A huge concrete pour has now created the foundation slab for one of Canada's most significant coming structures, Great Gulf Homes' flagship One Bloor. The 75-storey Hariri Pontarini Architects-designed tower is on the rise!
And 4 years before that:
Remembering The Big Pour At The New Four Seasons Hotel and Private Residences | UrbanToronto
Lifetime Developments and Menkes' Four Seasons Hotel and Private Residences in Toronto. 26 and 52 storey towers house 204 condos and a 5-star hotel. Design by architectsAlliance and Page + Steele Architects.
UtakataNoAnnex
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I think the transfer parts where also built into the above grade complex structure of the bottom part of The One. Likely one of the main reasons why it seemingly took forever and a dog's age to get past the 8th floor.
skycandy
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UtakataNoAnnex
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...that curvature detail looks smexy though. <3
Parkdalian
Senior Member
The contrast in glazing between Phases I and II is pretty bananas!
Collingwoodbuildinglover
Senior Member
I approve of this podium got a little scared for a second now. Can we get 93 floors installed on top 
UrbanAffair
Senior Member
I'm curious how much time is saved by tarping the sides of the transfer slab floor, once the pour commences. Does that dramatically improve curing time? If so, does anyone know by how much, or would it not be possible to cure concrete in low temperatures without it?
Collingwoodbuildinglover
Senior Member
It isn't so much for curing time as it is to prevent the underside of the slab frost it also allows you to heat the deck of the slab to be poured to avoid having to shovel, which when the entire deck is rebar saves you hundreds of hours of man hours
thamal3
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The slab is most likely thicker than 1m so this would be considered mass concrete per CSA so they need to control the temperature differential between the core and the surface otherwise there is risk of thermal cracking. The concrete will heat up at the core so they need to heat the surface to control the differential.
FastidiousHack
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I've driven/trained past this site a few times, and of course see the great photos posted here - but I walked by yesterday and the structure is insane.
It doesn't look that special in photos unless you notice the scale. Ceiling heights are massive. The concrete work here is huge, the beams are the size of bridge girders. The consistent amount of wall thickness is also nuts. Typically for high rises you just have a shear wall core and gravity columns, but to control drift limits at 350m requires mind boggling section sizes. I can't wait to see how they finish the podium interiors.
It doesn't look that special in photos unless you notice the scale. Ceiling heights are massive. The concrete work here is huge, the beams are the size of bridge girders. The consistent amount of wall thickness is also nuts. Typically for high rises you just have a shear wall core and gravity columns, but to control drift limits at 350m requires mind boggling section sizes. I can't wait to see how they finish the podium interiors.
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travis3000
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Why is the glass green? I don't remember seeing that in the renders at all.
UtakataNoAnnex
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...it's more teal than straight up green, but I see what you mean.
That said, and giving the ProjectEnd-san sage advice here, don't go by what the renders are portraying. Even if they're building exactly what is presented there, the renders are not the best at conveying the detailing accurately such as texture and hue.