Dan416
Senior Member
I also always gave BAC my blessing for the facade. I think it looks good.
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ganjavih
Senior Member
It's just too bad it was rebuilt and semi-fake looking now. Why not keep the original?
Art Vandelay
Active Member
I'm no engineer but I don't think the existing footings could carry the load of a 50 storey building.
wyliepoon
Senior Member
June 9
khris
Senior Member
This building does a really great job at blending in with it's surroundings. You could almost look at it and think it's always sort of been there. In a way that is good, even though I'd still prefer something more iconic and bold.
smuncky
Senior Member
sample windows gone.
catcher_of_cats
Active Member
Since this building blends into the sky, I wonder how many birds fly into it on a daily basis, or is there something special with the glazing to attempt to prevent this.
OldManKensey
Active Member
From the photos above, it appears that they finally took down the test curtain wall on the back of the adjacent entrance to the parking garage (it was still there when I walked by last week). I wonder if that structure will be getting sprcied up at all so as not to look quite so out of place next to the new plaza?
41stfloor
Active Member
^Something is being done, as one of the pillars on the side facing Adelaide is being stripped and refinished. Maybe the entire thing will be walled in a bit more - or maybe not. In addition, just north of that parking entrance structure at the extreme east of the site there is a new flight of stairs down into the concourse level that has now had a structure erected over it. The area outside and around that flight of stairs looks like it's being prepped for a nice surface treatment. I was wondering if an outdoor restaurant seating area was going to be installed along the lines of that at Jump.
OldManKensey
Active Member
Thanks for the information, 41 -- that all sounds tremendously promising, I'll have to walk by on my way home from work tonight. I had been worried that the lot next to the plaza would be covered in gravel and surrounded by chain-link fence until the next buidling boom, as Brookfield has done north of Temperance beside the Cloud Garden. I am thrilled to hear that they might actually do something a little more inspired!
41stfloor
Active Member
^ My pleasure. But watch us all get disappointed when it's just an additional fire escape exit or something else mundane, but necessary, like that.
drum118
Superstar
June 10
dt_toronto_geek
Superstar
More photos of the plaza east of BA today from The Cloud Garden
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Stitched pano. (no, BA isn't falling over...)
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Stitched pano. (no, BA isn't falling over...)
khris
Senior Member
I still find it very funny that there is a Winners in our financial district.
dt_toronto_geek
Superstar
There's also a Winners on Bloor W. smack dab in the middle of all those high end shops.