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maestro said:
West One has only four (50 storeys, 600+ units)
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I hope they're high speed!
I think of the Manulife Apartments which has around the same amount of floors and I believe there are 4 cabs for the lowrise (3rd - 29th floors) and 4 cabs for the highrise (32nd to 50th).
 
I think it's count down to when the presentation centre opens. Regarding WestOne elevators, it's alright when the elevators work. They go up pretty fast. But it gets crowded when 1-2 of them break down or one breaks down and other is reserved for moving.
 
SP!RE said:
Okay, as much as I dig this design, I have to come right out and say it: this project is absolutely inappropriate for this site.

We need something with a big chunky, street-wall-forming podium, just like MLS across the street. York Street down here should be a canyon.
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I agree. Unfortunately this is just further indication that the area seems to be developing on a pattern and scale like MCC, and not like the traditional, tried and true, urban patterns we love north of the tracks. Sad, but inevitable I suppose. We talk a lot about the ideals of a return to an integral system of public transit in concert with planning for dense urban development on a human scale yet continue to see a disconnect between those ideals and the development that is emerging. MLS will likely be a more successful node in the area, at least during events, but I'm curious how successfully 'urban' it will be when the arena is dark. I hope I'm completely wrong about this too. There is room in a city for more traditional urban patterns and newer ones to coexist - Paris can accommodate its 'La Defense' after all - so we'll just have to wait and see.
 
khristopher said:
I wouldn't really call the 29th floor of any buiding lowrise. :p
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The bottom half of "ghetto" apartments are referred to as the lowrise part of the building, the top section of "elite" apartments is the highrise section.
My place has 4 high speed elevators (400 feet per minute) for 29 floors. There's rarely a wait for an elevator, the way it should be in 2009.
I'm surprised many new highrises seem to have fewer elevators than those built in the 60's & 70's.
 
Most 60s and 70s buildings are slabs however, with many more units, and therefore occupants needing elevator rides, per floor.

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I lived in a 58 Story Building in Australia with only 5 operational elevators. Plus 1 dedicated service elevator. It's fast enough. only 2 elevators for the top 15 floors. And 3 for all the lower 43.
 
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My building is one of those '70's behemoths with 16 suites per floor, 26 levels & 416 suites. Ice has 11 suites per floor, 51 levels for roughly 561 suites with one more elevator than where I live. I guess that works out about right.
 
I think of the Manulife Apartments which has around the same amount of floors and I believe there are 4 cabs for the lowrise (3rd - 29th floors) and 4 cabs for the highrise
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Really? That's a lot for 800 units. Doesn't it include the Panorama shuttle?


The Agliers on Avenue Road is one of the taller and larger buildings with only one elevator (12s, 65u)
 
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maestro said:
Really? That's a lot for 800 units. Doesn't it include the Panorama shuttle?
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It's been about 10 years since I've been in there. There are two secure elevator lobbies, the east lobby is for floors 3-29 and the west lobby serves floors 32 to 50. Each lobby definitely has 4 cabs, possibly 5 including a service elevator. The Panorama elevator is an additional lift.
 
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City Planning Final Report

Staff report recommending approval for proposed 31-storey office building with a gross floor area of 74,106 square metres, retail area of 1,436 square metres, PATH of 808 square metres, a 65-storey residential condominium building with 687 dwelling units, and a 55-storey residential condominium building with 578 dwelling units, to be considered by Toronto + East York Community Council on April 21, 2009.

http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2009/te/bgrd/backgroundfile-20290.pdf
 
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