Toronto Pinnacle One Yonge | 345.5m | 105s | Pinnacle | Hariri Pontarini

[The Preservationist]

Are those windows flexing or did my grandkids put acid in my tea?

 

[ushahid]

Sky candy is that a white precast panel on right? Sorry it's kinda hard to see with my cellphone screen.

 

[3Dementia]

Are those windows flexing or did my grandkids put acid in my tea?

Are you drinking this tea? (I did their advertising).

 

[skycandy]

Sky candy is that a white precast panel on right? Sorry it's kinda hard to see with my cellphone screen.
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Pretty sure it's a no....it appears to be the same gleaming material seen elsewhere on the cladding. It's clean, brilliantly white and perfectly installed - unlike precast which can look scuffed and coarser.

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

Are those windows flexing or did my grandkids put acid in my tea?

Good kids don't let their grandparents stare at cladding on acid. >.<

 

[The Preservationist]

In truth they are too young to instigate such an thing but those windows make me wonder what I'm looking at... like the white panels.

 

[khris]

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Sky candy is that a white precast panel on right? Sorry it's kinda hard to see with my cellphone screen.

Looks like precast to me.

 

[3Dementia]

Yeah that's some high-grade pre-cast concrete... luv the way it reflects the light in a kinda metallic, coated aluminum way.

Almost reminds me a bit like this, in a unitised way:

Link

 

[TheTigerMaster]

In the Phase 1 renders, these pre-cast concrete blocks appeared to be flat. Glad to see they added some dimensionality to them. This project might be undergoing whatever the opposite of the cheapening is. Really bodes well for the rest of this project, as this is arguably the least impressive of the three proposed towers here.

 

[whatever]

In the Phase 1 renders, these pre-cast concrete blocks appeared to be flat. Glad to see they added some dimensionality to them. This project might be undergoing whatever the opposite of the cheapening is. Really bodes well for the rest of this project, as this is arguably the least impressive of the three proposed towers here.

You're mixing up the elevations. The panels they've put up on that elevation are indeed flat, as shown in the rendering.

Some of the strips start out pointed, some of the strips start out flat, and it looks like the vertical lines transition at various points up the elevations. Even in the rendering you posted, you can see that the left-most strip becomes pointed near the top of the image

 

[TheTigerMaster]

You're mixing up the elevations. The panels they've put up on that elevation are indeed flat, as shown in the rendering.

Some of the strips start out pointed, some of the strips start out flat, and it looks like the vertical lines transition at various points up the elevations. Even in the rendering you posted, you can see that the left-most strip becomes pointed near the top of the image

Ahh, got it, thanks for the clarification. Happy with how it's progressing nevertheless!

 

[condovo]

Those look like metal panels to me. Their surface is too smooth, uniform and reflective to be precast concrete. Also, I've never seen precast panels pre-assembled with glazing panels like that, only metal ones.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Those look like metal panels to me. Their surface is too smooth, uniform and reflective to be precast concrete. Also, I've never seen precast panels pre-assembled with glazing panels like that, only metal ones.

Metal - from the Phase 1 SPA Architectural Plans (Jan 2019):

(Pinnacle/HPA) via http://app.toronto.ca/AIC/index.do?folderRsn=LI9X6uTqSRt0abCvGn0wjA==

AoD

 

[3Dementia]

Yeah that's some high-grade pre-cast concrete... luv the way it reflects the light in a kinda metallic, coated aluminum way. Almost reminds me a bit like this, in a unitised way

Thanks @ DtTO for getting the joke. Gotta work my material...

 

[khris]

FYI I was referring to the flat portions, which look like precast, not metal. Obviously the three dimensional portions are not precast. Interesting to know that even the flat portions are metal.