Recent content by interchange42

Thanks, I appreciate the clarifications!! 42

There were two posts that made it up to above the 300m mark back in June. Here's one of them: That's a time capsule attached to to it, so I don't believe that the posts were taken down, rather they just kept adding to the steel framework at the top, incorporating it into the whole. 42

@flonicky, your posts make me I wish we had crying and rolling eyes emojis too, it's a failure on our part to be unable to capture the full range of incredulity that some photos provoke. I'd do a week of Pedestrian Realm Clawback for the Daily Photos if I didn't think I'd be traded to...

It's not all exhibit space. There are corridors, staircases, washrooms, a gift shop, a café, there's a wedding venue, admin offices, storage, repair studio, etc. Galleries typically have "permanent" exhibit galleries for their collections, plus space for travelling or temporary exhibitions. By...

If there's a debate, it's ill-informed. The glass now stops with a parapet wall at 109, exposing the top of the uppermost mechanicals. I get that some, many, most, ALL of us would rather believe that the glass walls were still going to surround the top of the building, but they aren't anymore...

You are way off topic. Pursue this anymore, and your account will be affected. 42

I am no longer following cranes. Please @Paclo. 42

The Alto thread is at this link. There's been enough of that tangent in this thread now, so please let's get this thread back to Union Station only! Further Alto posts in this thread related to the route or any non-Union related part of Alto will be defragged. 42

Two footnotes for this thread, one highly overdue, and one more current: The corner building won best in the 8-9 storeys category for UrbanToronto's favourite new building completed in 2024 across all of the GTHA! More currently, Ciao Bella is where the Hollander family sit down to eat twice...

This thread replaces the previous Crane Count thread. The plan going forward is to provide an up-to-date report at the beginning of each month along with a report on additions and removals from that month. 42

New Metrus Properties proposal along the south side of Highway 7 between Commerce Valley Drive and Leslie Street in Markham, filling a gap between two squat, existing office buildings at the corners. Addressed to 8500 Leslie Street (with a future phase at 8432 Leslie. Designed by BDP Quadrangle...

Sorry about that. The availability of greater detail is a victim of holding some stats back, reserved for UTPro subscribers. UrbanToronto has to function as a business for us to be able to provide this otherwise hugely comprehensive free online community. 42

Removed! We are renaming the Minton Portal + Don Valley Crossing Bridge thread to Minton Portal + Upper Don Valley Crossings, so yes, we will count all of those associated cranes in that thread. That thread will, weirdly, leapfrog two other threads/database files: Thorncliffe Park station, and...

It's not that there was nowhere else to build a new building, it's never that. It's that this is the site the developer owns; they can only build where they own. In the meantime, there are another dozen towers planned all over the 'hood, from a dozen different developers. Some other buildings...

8 Spruce is 265m to the roof. Forma's East Tower is going to be 262.8m to the roof, so it will be Gehry's second tallest when complete. I hope the West Tower is rethought, contents-wise. The replacement of office space with bent-bowling-alley layouts in the podium in 2025 was a shock to me, I...