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Infographics - Future Toronto Skyline

I don't see 160 Front West on here.

It's obstructed in the previous two images, sandwiched between Union Centre and 145 Wellington.
Here's another angle where you can partially see 160 Front:

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Here are two infographics I've shared on Twitter featuring growth in the Downtown Core. I'll repost them here:

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Since the start of the Condominium Boom, residential development in Toronto's Downtown Core has vastly outnumbered the construction of other building-types. This trend continues to be realized, with current and future development as illustrated in this graphic.

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This visual highlights skyscrapers in Downtown Toronto exceeding 200 metres in height, emphasizing areas where future height and density are being proposed in contrast to what exists today.

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Very cool. How are you defining "mixed-use"? Also it seems like some hotels are being counted as residential (51 Camden is the one I noticed)?
 
Very cool. How are you defining "mixed-use"? Also it seems like some hotels are being counted as residential (51 Camden is the one I noticed)?

That’s right. An error on my end, 51 Camden should be highlighted as mixed use. Thanks for pointing that out
 
Awesome work!

You are missing a bunch of projects in Regent Park though (presumably because the City's development application website is a complete mess for Regent Park. Seriously, the entire neighbourhood under one application file?)
 
Awesome work!

You are missing a bunch of projects in Regent Park though (presumably because the City's development application website is a complete mess for Regent Park. Seriously, the entire neighbourhood under one application file?)

Agreed. It’s a challenge to keep this accurate and up to date, resulting in some missing builds. And a little more difficult to navigate the dev app site lately since it was redesigned.
 
Several more infographics from Twitter:

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This illustration of Toronto and New York City (Manhattan) informally compares the skylines of both cities as they appear in 2020. NYC = 82 completed buildings over 200 m TOR = 23 completed buildings over 200 m

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A look at Toronto’s evolving central waterfront, with a focus on high-rise developments in the South Core and Lower Yonge Precinct.

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Several skyscrapers are set to rise along Yonge street in Downtown Toronto, including the 85-storey YSL Residences (1), which began construction in 2019 but has since been halted. If completed, the project will rise to a height of 299 metres.

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Throwback Thursday: The evolution of Toronto’s skyline from 2010 - 2030 (projected).

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Great stuff Steve!
I used to do much crappier versions of your NYC silhouettes behind Toronto “style” skylines comparisons back in the city vs. city days of ssp. On my Xmas wish-list would one of yours with Chicago silhouetted and Toronto... but including “proposed” projects. 😍 I recently did a "By the Numbers" built, u/c, proposed TOR-CHI comparison in an existing 'compare' Politics thread, along with a bunch of editorializing (especially about CTBUH criteria and what's a skyscraper? lol), but the punch-line was this:
“...for fun I decided to add in just 25% of the Toronto proposals (24 skyscrapers) and 25% of the Chicago proposals (3 skyscrapers), to arrive at my informal built-construction-proposed snapshot:
TORONTO = 119 skyscrapers (using my 150m +/- 1 metre metric)
CHICAGO = 105 skyscrapers (using my 150m +/- 1 metre metric) … Toronto will one day be the number 2 skyline in North America imo….”
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Cheers and thanks again for your spectacular renders (my favourite thread).
 

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