Toronto One Bloor West | 308.6m | 85s | Tridel | Foster + Partners

[interchange42]

Is this Toronto's first Mass Tuned Damper, or are there other such installations?

Someone correct me if I’m wrong but, aside from the CN tower, I’m pretty sure M3 at M city beat this as the first skyscraper with a Tuned Mass Damper in the GTA

So there’s only one completed TMD right now, and this one will be the next. And also I’m also pretty sure pinnacle one Yonge will be the third skyscraper to have one installed.

There are a number of them now. Can't remember them all. One Bloor East has one. Pretty sure it's the slosh tank type. IIRC the Massey Tower has one. There are others.

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[AdamS]

 

[TheDreamyGiant]

it's crazy how modern skyscrapers can stay so solid even at 70–80 floors up with strong winds. the engineering and construction tech these days just keeps getting better and better, makes you appreciate all the work that goes into keeping them standing.

 

[thomax]

 

[Torontomapleleafs]

it's crazy how modern skyscrapers can stay so solid even at 70–80 floors up with strong winds. the engineering and construction tech these days just keeps getting better and better, makes you appreciate all the work that goes into keeping them standing.

Yea, and not every country is able to build like that because of the complexity. Check out 1000 museum tower in Miami, it’s a modern engineering miracle.

 

[Bayer]

I always enjoyed my guests' alarmed reaction when they saw my vertical blinds sway back and forth, on the 50th floor at ROCP I.

 

[ImmenselyMental]

Just one photo from outside OISE after lunch today:

 

[Koops65]

Merry Christmas all!

Link to HD render

 

[Johnny Au]

December 25, 2025:

Yonge and St. Clair:

 

[SkylineHorizons]

December 14, 2025:

Sir Winston Churchill Park:

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Love that park, it's such a great vantage point to take photos of the city from. Here's a bunch I took from earlier in the year that I didn't get around to posting

 

[3Dementia]

Lush-ious shots @SkylineHorizons

 

[jer1961]

Photos taken today, Boxing Day (Dec. 26). Certainly not the day to go out and take photos... But some interesting shots nevertheless. Nothing new on the tower since I posted a week ago, everything looks status quo. Though I might have missed something through the blizzard...

One Bloor West (The One) construction

Photos of One Bloor West (The One) construction progress, including a "before" shot from 2011 and several from 2015 after the demolition of Stollery's. Notable for becoming Canada's first supertall building, i.e., over 300 metres (985 feet) tall. (The CN Tower does not fall under the definition...

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One Bloor West (The One) "time-lapse"

From October, 2020, as above-ground construction started in earnest at The One (1 Bloor W.) in Toronto. More or less a weekly photo usually taken on a Friday, with some gaps during early-on construction hiatuses. The initial photographs are from 2015, during demolition at the site, 2018, during...

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[CanadianNational]

I always enjoyed my guests' alarmed reaction when they saw my vertical blinds sway back and forth, on the 50th floor at ROCP I.

I used to live at 40 Homewood Avenue, right downtown. It was a standard 70's rectangular slab, about thirty floors, not too thick and rather broad - like a waffle standing on its side.
The building didn't give off a perceptible vibration too often, but after a good gusty night, I'd wake up to find a lot of the framed pictures hanging in my apartment all askew on the walls.
There actually was a quake in the late 90's or early 2000's that caused the building to sway. It woke me out of the nap into full unexplained anxiety. It was when I stood up and saw the edge of the balcony concrete moving slightly, slowly, relative to the view eastward out the window I had a 'moment'! The building settled very slightly after that. Doors and their frames, the lines where the ceiling met the wall, were both off by a few degrees. Long, shallow dips appeared along the length of the inner hallways, between presumably thicker cross beams beneath. The most visible aspects of all the setttling seemed to fade after eight years or so.

That was new to me. That, and the concrete suddenly adjusting in the structure to the freeze-thaw cycles. I don't know if it was expansion joints (or the lack of them), but the concrete would suddenly snap to with a deep alarming bang every now and then. Fun fun. No complaints though. It was a solid, well-built, well-enduring building.

 

[Johnny Au]

December 27, 2025:

Bedford and Bloor:

 

[CanadianNational]

Walking eastward on Bloor from around Bedford, it's pleasing to see the diagonals of 1BW working as a visual companion to the ROM Crystal.