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They updated the article. He wasn't saying this project was in the same class as The One, he was saying their King St project is in the same class as 550 Wellington I was super confused by the quotes in this thread because this project... isn't luxury. Or quality. Or anything I'd want my name on

It's not as terrible as you make it sound. Starting from Wellesley the retained stone wall and iron fencing from the hospital are attractive, and the trees in bloom are quite pretty. The City rec centre is a bit austere, but is hardly offensive. That park with the gravel isnt to my taste, but...

Office vacancy rates are approaching 20%... What update are you expecting to hear?

Well, no, it's not just "pop it out". Those look like they're four-sided structural glazed, so it's actually a bit of a process to hack them out, clean up the glass, flip it, and reglaze. Not the kind of thing you want to do any more than you absolutely have to. And I'd be more worried if the...

I'll grant that where you do save on labour isn't so much on the rate being paid out to workers, but on all of the extra headaches that come with trying to do anything in the city where staging room is a constant battle, you're struggling to move materials, getting access to the work involves...

The labour isn't really cheaper. Tons of guys working in Toronto are coming in from Hamilton and Niagara Falls. And most of the building trades are covered under provincial agreements anyway

Does anyone know if that's the old Integro material, or is it a sample from a new supplier? The bunk looks like Integro's, and it looks like the Integro pig ears and chicken head? Hard to see in the photos

Every station has back of house washrooms for employees. The doors are marked with pink/blue circles near the top. Now that we have timed fares I think it's less important to have washrooms at every station. With very few exceptions (Castle Frank?) you can just leave the station and use a...

Surely there has to be some thickness of concrete that would allow for that substation to be moved into the basement of a new tower

Pfft! No way! Oh boy. Can't wait to sit back and watch the circus come to town. If the reciever wanted to torpedo the project they could've just come out and said so.

Higher than you think, given the engineered lifespans of components within those cladding systems. Of course, that's not to say that the replacements will be better. Take Aura, then imagine the bottom two-thirds of Aura being wrapped in EIFS.

I know at least some of the former fabricator's material from a different job is to be released from that yard shortly. I don't know if the material for this one was a part of that settlement, but the timing seems to be more than coincidental

There we go, looks like they're pouring the first floor of the slanted setback

I guess it'll be a math question for everyone involved. If the storage guys want to hold out for the whole amount they may end up getting nothing but the scrap value. If Westbank et al (they're not the only ones with material there) don't pay the storage guys they end up having to re-tender it...

As far as I know, a large quantity of curtainwall for this is still sitting in storage amidst a payment dispute over the fabricator's bankruptcy. Not going to be any signs of curtainwall here until that eventually gets resolved