CityPlaceN1
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Nice photos drum118!
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Juan_Lennon416
Senior Member
When does construction on Phase Two begin?
lordmandeep
Banned
office vacancies are a bit to high to warrant another office tower.
Well about warehousing and manufacturing, they are still a major source of employment not only in the 905 but in Toronto as well.
In the past many of them shifted to the 905, and thus created thousands and thousands of jobs for new residents. Now the economic crisis has hit them hard and some are closing down or reducing staff.
So really that is why the unemployment rate is so high and well signs show things are quite normal. The Downtown is just fine..
Well about warehousing and manufacturing, they are still a major source of employment not only in the 905 but in Toronto as well.
In the past many of them shifted to the 905, and thus created thousands and thousands of jobs for new residents. Now the economic crisis has hit them hard and some are closing down or reducing staff.
So really that is why the unemployment rate is so high and well signs show things are quite normal. The Downtown is just fine..
BuildTO and I watched the lights in the lobby for a bit yesterday evening. They change slowly and subtly for the most part, and then go into movie mode from time to time. It's definitely worth a trip down to see them. Give them some time, be patient!
Here's a flick of some of what we saw.
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Here's a flick of some of what we saw.
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khris
Senior Member
Movie mode?
Movie mode.
It's faint, especially at the start, but these are James Turrell's Bay Adelaide Centre LEDs in movie mode, which they switched into three times as we watched them over the course of half an hour. Each time was different. Sorry about the exposure. If I cranked it anymore, the brightness of the white light would drown out the dancing orange swirls.
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It's faint, especially at the start, but these are James Turrell's Bay Adelaide Centre LEDs in movie mode, which they switched into three times as we watched them over the course of half an hour. Each time was different. Sorry about the exposure. If I cranked it anymore, the brightness of the white light would drown out the dancing orange swirls.
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Tuscani01
Senior Member
Sweet! The first one hurt my eyes... haha
Thanks for the post interchange42!
Thanks for the post interchange42!
whatever
Senior Member
I was watching the lights today they were set to an off-white, with faded, barely visible letters appearing near the top of the screens. It actually looked like monitor burn-in at first, but then I noticed the letters flickering and shifting position occasionally.
khris
Senior Member
Hey that's neat. Thanks for the videos.
Geekaroo
Active Member
The City Strikes Again
Just walked by. There is a section of the new sidewalk cut out and replace with a tar fill at the corner of Bay & Temperance. Didn't take long to get in there and &*%$ up the look!!!
Just walked by. There is a section of the new sidewalk cut out and replace with a tar fill at the corner of Bay & Temperance. Didn't take long to get in there and &*%$ up the look!!!
drum118
Superstar
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whatever
Senior Member
I saw the tar, too. It's unbelievable to me that even before the complex is fully open the landscaping has already been torn up and asphalted.
Dan416
Senior Member
This is Toronto after all.
deerparker
Active Member
BAY-ADELAIDE CENTRE
From Saturday's Globe and Mail Last updated on Monday, Sep. 21, 2009 03:28AM EDT by LISA ROCHON
Sophisticated. Civic-minded. Clean. These are not descriptions you associate with the cluttered Toronto skyline. But the newly opened Bay Adelaide Centre is infused with the best of 21st-century thinking: it's a sustainable office tower anchored meaningfully to the street with a generous public square and a chapel of sublime art inside its front lobby by internationally acclaimed light artist James Turrell.
Over the past two decades, the architectural firm, WZMH, grappled with different designs and three sets of working drawings, but the final 51-storey version represents the cleanest, most minimal tower of them all. The textural flourish comes in the restored Tyndall stone façade of the 1926 National Building. Another marvel of the building is its thin, crisp glass skin, which provides excellent insulation from the elements, and is critical to its sustainability. Built by Brookfield Properties, the centre is at the vanguard of green: the building is likely to receive a highly-sought Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold standard.
It's green on the outside, too. A new public square east of the tower offers new ways to breathe in the downtown - and provides a welcome visual elixir, the like of which has not been seen since Santiago Calatrava's soaring atrium at what was then called BCE Place. There are a dozen gingko trees and native grasses to soften the granite plaza, and plenty of room - a half-acre - to enjoy being at home in the city.
But the intent of the overall design is crystal clear: connect to pedestrians and draw them through the transparent lobby, where Mr. Turrell's stunning work becomes a refuge of meditation for the drivers of Canada's economic engine.
Only occasionally has Mr. Turrell offered his work in light as public art, preferring to show at public institutions such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, where a major retrospective of his work is being planned for 2012. But his exquisite tall glass pieces are here to stay in Toronto. Shifting tapestries of light - polyphonic compositions of colour and movement - they are as compelling as the clouds on a windy day. Pay attention Generation X and Y developers: A new standard has been set for building tall in Toronto.
From Saturday's Globe and Mail Last updated on Monday, Sep. 21, 2009 03:28AM EDT by LISA ROCHON
Sophisticated. Civic-minded. Clean. These are not descriptions you associate with the cluttered Toronto skyline. But the newly opened Bay Adelaide Centre is infused with the best of 21st-century thinking: it's a sustainable office tower anchored meaningfully to the street with a generous public square and a chapel of sublime art inside its front lobby by internationally acclaimed light artist James Turrell.
Over the past two decades, the architectural firm, WZMH, grappled with different designs and three sets of working drawings, but the final 51-storey version represents the cleanest, most minimal tower of them all. The textural flourish comes in the restored Tyndall stone façade of the 1926 National Building. Another marvel of the building is its thin, crisp glass skin, which provides excellent insulation from the elements, and is critical to its sustainability. Built by Brookfield Properties, the centre is at the vanguard of green: the building is likely to receive a highly-sought Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold standard.
It's green on the outside, too. A new public square east of the tower offers new ways to breathe in the downtown - and provides a welcome visual elixir, the like of which has not been seen since Santiago Calatrava's soaring atrium at what was then called BCE Place. There are a dozen gingko trees and native grasses to soften the granite plaza, and plenty of room - a half-acre - to enjoy being at home in the city.
But the intent of the overall design is crystal clear: connect to pedestrians and draw them through the transparent lobby, where Mr. Turrell's stunning work becomes a refuge of meditation for the drivers of Canada's economic engine.
Only occasionally has Mr. Turrell offered his work in light as public art, preferring to show at public institutions such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, where a major retrospective of his work is being planned for 2012. But his exquisite tall glass pieces are here to stay in Toronto. Shifting tapestries of light - polyphonic compositions of colour and movement - they are as compelling as the clouds on a windy day. Pay attention Generation X and Y developers: A new standard has been set for building tall in Toronto.
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Only at street level, Lisa.
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