Toronto 75 on The Esplanade | 99.97m | 29s | Harhay | a—A

[drum118]

March 24

 

[3Dementia]

Kinda like this one... might be shadow hit to a few outdoor cafes across the street during (off-season) warm days, before the sun climbs. Do luv the brick(ish?) lower floors. Logical and attractive.

Now if we could implode the parking garage to the south (might be worth warning tenants living above), in favour of underground parking spaces, a nice extension of the nabe could be conjured up. Don't have much of a plan for displaced residents... ;-)

 

[Kenojuak]

 

[mburrrrr]

Monday April 20

Moving right along now. 1 week/floor. Podium finishes on level 8. Working on level 7 today.


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April 24
23 hours later

 

[Stefan]

Floor 7 should be the last podium floor. Floor 8 has the private terraces above the floor 7 rooftop:

 

[Kenojuak]

 

[Red Mars]

Sat May 2, 2020

 

[cc46]

May 4th 2020 from SW.

 

[Rascacielo]

Today. One more level and the podium is done.

 

[DavidCapizzano]

Looks like they're going to hand lay the brick here - you can see the metal supports cast into the slab vs anchors for precast. Would be great to see the same red brick used at Tea House on this project. Do they plan on using aluminum or precast for the white portions of the tower?

 

[mburrrrr]

Saturday
all the cranes are aligned

Looks like some podium roof anchors will be prepared on Monday. (Galvanized stands stored in the top left)

 

[Stefan]

I think 875 Queen would be a better indicator of the type of brick we're getting, where it was laid by hand as well. I doubt it will be the two-tone, probably the darker type:

875 Queen East | ?m | 7s | Harhay | OFFICEArchitecture

Between this and the restoration work at 728 Yonge, looks like silver cornices are in: https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/toronto-728-yonge-m-3s-brook-mcilroy.20566/page-10#post-1491564 Tin cornices were very "in" until most of them were stripped away due to fashion and cheap property...

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And it's prefinished aluminium for the white portions:

Looks like they're going to hand lay the brick here - you can see the metal supports cast into the slab vs anchors for precast. Would be great to see the same red brick used at Tea House on this project. Do they plan on using aluminum or precast for the white portions of the tower?

 

[AlbertC]

I'm fine with the podium as depicted in the renderings. But I wouldn't have minded if they extended the colonnade motif eastward to align with the podium here.

A couple examples from old photos of a trip to Berlin in 2015 of contemporary colonnades with retail:

 

[junctionist]

Colonnades are great with the right design so that they're open and airy and pleasant to walk through by design. In the summer, they provide shade. In the late fall to early spring, they make it easier to get around by foot by sheltering pedestrians from adverse weather.

 

[jje1000]

Colonnades are great with the right design. In the summer, they provide shade. In the late fall to early spring, they make it easier to get around by foot by sheltering pedestrians from adverse weather.

Double-height colonnades work the best IMO.

The single-floor colonnades often don't quite work out IMO- ending up dark even in summer, and cold during the winter. Worse, they often create squat, unattractive retail spaces- as Ivory on Adelaide demonstrates.

Honestly, they should be on the urban planning blacklist.

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