Toronto One Bloor West | 308.6m | 85s | Tridel | Foster + Partners

A bit late, but here's one taken Dec 14:

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C-mac said:
Came across this clip on youtube:

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Speaking of YouTube, I watched a video today on Top 10 (Global) Megaprojects Completing in 2026. This project was included, along with the likes of the new metro expansion in Paris and a new nuclear plant in the UK. While I love this building, it’s a stretch to include construction of a single tower as a megaproject, especially when the other projects cover much larger areas and/or involve construction of multiple buildings and infrastructure. I’d like to think the content creator is a proud Torontonian, but I doubt it, as they still called it ‘The One’ (FYI the video is only 3 days old).
 
Torontomapleleafs said:
Can someone please build something larger than One World Trade Centre in Toronto so we can claim the title of largest skyscraper in the Western Hemisphere.
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Putting the assumed joking aside, there would have to be significant economic reasons for doing this. Keep in mind this tower bankrupted the original developer here when the economy was somewhat better than it is today (read: pre-madman tariffs). So I can't see anything of this nature ever getting off the ground outside of fantasy thinking, IMO.
 
Torontomapleleafs said:
Can someone please build something larger than One World Trade Centre in Toronto so we can claim the title of largest skyscraper in the Western Hemisphere.
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Seeing as how 1WTC is not significantly shorter than twice the height of 1BW, I think that if the Americans were to stop building today, it may take Canada 100 years to surpass it...assuming Mexico isn't the only Superpower by then. ;)
 
vinny_the_hack said:
Seeing as how 1WTC is not significantly shorter than twice the height of 1BW, I think that if the Americans were to stop building today, it may take Canada 100 years to surpass it...assuming Mexico isn't the only Superpower by then. ;)
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Mexico is already building a 484 m skyscraper in Monterrey, I think it’s just under halfway up now.

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Mexico is somewhat under developed and often lacks the infrastructure or investments to build huge modern skyscrapers, but yea the USA specifically New York and Chicago will likely continue to dominate in terms of tallest towers.
 
However, the good news is Toronto is the fastest growing city in North America. So, despite the fact that we’re significantly smaller than cities like NYC, LA, and Mexico City we are growing quicker than them. And who knows Maybe I’ll go grab my shovel and start digging the foundations myself for burj Khalifa 2.0 in Toronto.
 
Torontomapleleafs said:
However, the good news is Toronto is the fastest growing city in North America. So, despite the fact that we’re significantly smaller than cities like NYC, LA, and Mexico City we are growing quicker than them. And who knows Maybe I’ll go grab my shovel and start digging the foundations myself for burj Khalifa 2.0 in Toronto.
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Things are going to change radically in the 2-5 years. AI is going to wipe out so many jobs it's not even funny. Who knows what's that's going to do to office space demand.
 
C-mac said:
Things are going to change radically in the 2-5 years. AI is going to wipe out so many jobs it's not even funny. Who knows what's that's going to do to office space demand.
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Yeah, a lot of executives and higher management are going to get turfed by shareholders for chasing a dragon that will never deliver what they want (and have ridden the corpse down as the bubble burst).
 
^Entirely investor funded. The sooner it will burst likely the better...

...but I don't want to ring in the new year with dark musings. (And we have a new shiny tower to talk about here!)
 
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