RBC Centre (LEED Gold, CadFair, 41s, KPF/B+H/&Co.) COMPLETE

[Eck]

RBC Path Connection

I just spoke to the building management at Simcoe Place to ask when this building will be reconnected to the PATH network through the RBC Centre. This will not scheduled to occur until June 1st.

 

[officedweller]

I may be slow on this - but I didn't realize that Fairmont was opening a hotel in the building (figured it was offices) - the stacking plan shows the "Fairmont Raffles Hotel" on levels 32, 33 and 34.

http://www.rbccentre.ca/pdfs/rbccentre_stacking_plan.pdf

 

[taal]

A 3 story hotel inside an office building

Think about that for a second ... there's a much more likely explanation - fairmont is just another company after all

 

[officedweller]

Maybe just an "s" missing from the word "hotel" on the stacking plan?
The proper name of the company is "Fairmont Raffles Hotels International".

 

[grey]

I can't wait to book a few nights in a corner office!

 

[caltrane74]

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[Marcanadian]

The Royal York is completely blocked by Telus now.

 

[oneillt]

wow, look at Success Tower, beautiful

 

[gei]

The Royal York is completely blocked by Telus now.

Wow I didn't even realize that.... a chapter of Toronto lost forever

 

[3Dementia]

If you paddle your swan a little bit west it comes back into view.

 

[MisterF]

Wow I didn't even realize that.... a chapter of Toronto lost forever

Seems a tad dramatic, the Royal York is still there. It's a kilometre from the water in one of the densest skyscraper districts in the world. There's no real reason for it to be visible from that spot.

 

[samsonyuen]

I'm not such a big fan of the new RBC logo. I liked the old Royal Bank logo better.

 

[adma]

...especially in relief on the side wall of 20 King W

 

[Electricitypants]

Hotel

A 3 story hotel inside an office building

Think about that for a second ... there's a much more likely explanation - fairmont is just another company after all

I may be misremembering, but I used to work in one of the upper floors of Scotia Plaza in the mid-1990s, and I believe that for a while there was a hotel within the high rise component of the office tower, between the middle and the top. I think it was one or two floors, sort of an executive high end hotel. I have vague recollections that it was brought in as a tenant when the leasing market for office space was a bitsketchy, and it was a case of "anything to fill the space." Does anyone else recall this?

 

[ganjavih]

I'm not such a big fan of the new RBC logo. I liked the old Royal Bank logo better.

Yeah, I dislike the watered down/dumbed down version. Seems as though people are offended by crowns these days... at least the folks at the ROM and RBC seem to think so.