Toronto The Whitfield | 130m | 39s | Menkes | Giannone Petricone

[christiesplits]

Today.

 

[mburrrrr]

From today

 

[GenerationLee]

Yesterday:

 

[DarkSideDenizen]

 

[rdaner]

Taken 5 December.

 

[tripwire]

Taken Sun Dec 8:

I haven't been in the area for many months now, and so I was shocked to see the progress made here, and how good it looks. It's was really nice to see the pop of colour and the curves.

 

[rdaner]

8s to go!

 

[unrealestate]

Taken Sun Dec 8:

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I haven't been in the area for many months now, and so I was shocked to see the progress made here, and how good it looks. It's was really nice to see the pop of colour and the curves.

definitely a surprising win that hopefully draws the eye away from big ugly across the street

 

[Mihairokov]

No update today

 

[interchange42]

I am very late to the game here, but the Buildings Forum has been too big for about a year-and-a-half now for me to keep on top of all threads on a daily basis. While I used to be able to do that, it's just all new-post-backlog-clearance for me now on a thread-by-thread basis, wherever I must pop in. That means I can open a thread and find that I have 3, 15, 27, or 39 pages of posts to catch up on. (It was 14 pages of new posts in this case.)

Anyway, I wish I had checked in on The Whitfiield sooner. Not only is it looking great... but there was something a little off that was repeated in post after post in the thread. If I hadn't been on vacation during the last week of September, then I would have caught the boo-boos when we last reported on this building on the front page, all in regards to the below…

Paint will eventually fade, crack and peel - why did they not just use real brick or red pre-cast panels from the get go instead of inducing a future maintenance nightmare?

For that reason, they don't use paint.

It might be a stain or tint, just being applied via a sprayer which would be significantly faster than pre staining them in the factory. This way the finish doesn’t get messed up during transport or installation.

My guess is they put that pre stained panel up as a test to make sure everyone was happy with the colour in situ before going ahead with the rest.

I guess the only real downside is that over time, the red tint will fade and it will be on the condo corp to pay to have it touched up.

Stain is correct. While paint sits on the surface, stain soaks in a millimetre or so.

future condo corp's problem!

The stain means they won't have to worry about paint flaking off.

Depends on the quality of paint/coating they are using on the precast. The best stuff can last more 25 years before needing a visit to the beauty parlour.

The one thing I wonder about the stain is at what rate it might fade. Red is the first colour to go in plastic or paper signs that are bleached by the sun. It would be a "colourfast" pigment in the stain, so a long time, but still not forever...

The precast they did this with looked expensive though. And odd. Perhaps it was designed to absorb paint better...or a type of paint that was used is better suited for the elements where this type of surface works best with. I can't really tell...

And that's why they stain precast — absorption as opposed to a surface treatment that can be worn off by a combo of wind, H²0, and whatever particulate might be in the H²0.

Does it matter how they colour the concrete? It's like 7 strips across the bottom it's not a material aspect in my opinion. It's completely superficial and very easy to change.

You don't want it to be easy, you want it to last. Even the developer (unlike what some are saying in the thread) will want it to last long enough (as long as it's cost effective).

…so the front page story from September has been reworded to reflect that the precast was stained, and now hopefully with my slight repetition above, it'll have soaked in for all of you too!

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[mburrrrr]

No update today

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From yesterday.

 

[Skyhighzz]

Nice. The only misstep or missed ops, is this vivid red brick, red aluminum tower isn’t 40 storeys taller to join the only other red tall for all to see-in the overwhelming sea of grey-blue.

 

[Lachlan Holmes]

Some pictures taken this afternoon. I quite like this one. I did note something interesting, however: the logo of Core Development Group, which was to the right of the Menkes logo on the hoarding, has been covered up. A quick look back in the thread shows that it was still on the hoarding as of June 15th (post #302, page 21) and was covered up by July 11th (post #315, page 21). Are they no longer involved with this one?

 

[reinventingthewheel]

This piece of the facade is all done now, love the extra warm tone when it’s damp. Hope something can be done about the misalignment at the north end.

This piece clearly wasn’t handled with much care and some touch ups are in order.

 

[Collingwoodbuildinglover]

I don't think there is a menkees project I don't like so far but if anybody wants to correct me I've had it happen a lot on this site