dt_toronto_geek
Superstar
As mentioned several pages back, Canada Trust going up in 1990 using similar building methods.
What's remarkable about that photo is how large the ratio of floorplate to core is, as compared to what we're seeing at B/A. It had always struck me that B/A is all bone and no meat, but this picture brings it home.
Also, how 1990 photos suddenly seem vintage.
P.S. Cal, I have the ultimate (high res camera, not webcam) POV of this sucker but I'm not sure I can be bothered shooting 5 frames a week and then cutting it together into the ultimate time-lapse.
Unless of course a certain ex-girlfriend would meet me for a martini.... in the Martini Bar... in the building ...with the perfect POV of BA rising....
If anything Bay Adelaide will be a stronger building than BCE place because of its solid core.
The BCE Place core is also solid cement so I don't understand what you mean by that.
Redundant life safety systems: Redundant emergency power feeds to all life safety systems with diesel-powered generators
HAHA!! I actually laughed while reading that.Sounds like the Starship Enterprise. Lifesupport and a containment chamber should the warp core breach... now everyone, picture Levar Burton doing his best Indiana Jones role underneath the falling door...
Sounds like the Starship Enterprise. Lifesupport and a containment chamber should the warp core breach... now everyone, picture Levar Burton doing his best Indiana Jones role underneath the falling door...
EVERYBODY OUT! GO GO GO!
In high school, nobody could pass a closing garage door without taking the opportunity to do the Laforge roll.