Vaughan CG Tower | 188.97m | 60s | Cortel Group | BDP Quadrangle

[ADRM]

Larger version pulled from the link:
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They're gonna need to land a pretty impressive ppsf to afford some Koons amenity art.

 

[interchange42]

Front page story here.

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[interchange42]

The database file is now brimming with higher-res versions of the images!

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[raptor]

No official name yet but we have an official website:
http://cortelgroup.com/thefinaltower/

 

[Edward Skira]

They should call it "the final tower".

 

[raptor]

SPA entry in PlanIt. Docs not up yet but the description is as follows:
"Expo 5 will be a 60-storey mixed-use development of contemporary architectural design. The building will include a 3-storey podium element, with a 57-storey tower above. The building will have a total gross floor area of 55,133 square meters, of which 52,663 square meters will be residential space. The ground floor of the building will include 1,046 square meters of street-related retail space, accessed from Highway 7 and Maplecrete Road."

 

[innsertnamehere]

Cortel tweeted this:

 

[Lenser]

Cool. It will be quite the landmark.

 

[idc24]

Striking design with nice setbacks. Looks very much like 2 World Trade Center in New York.

http://www.wtc.com/about/buildings/2-world-trade-center

 

[Therion]

Nice. Not many cities with 300,000 people can boast of 61-storey towers with decent architecture.

 

[idc24]

Oak Brook, Illinois is the smallest city with a skyscraper. The population was 7,883 at the 2010 census (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Brook,_Illinois)

The Oakbrook Terrace Tower built in 1986 is 418 feet.

http://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/oakbrook-terrace-tower/9792

 

[interchange42]

Oak Brook is part of Chicago's sprawling suburbs, the way that Vaughan is of Toronto, but Oak Brook is more like Woodbridge if it remained unmerged from Vaughan. Oak Brook may be small, but DuPage County has about 1,000,000 people in it, so it's not like there's a 418 foot skyscraper alone in the middle of the prairie.

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[idc24]

Oak Brook is part of Chicago's sprawling suburbs, the way that Vaughan is of Toronto, but Oak Brook is more like Woodbridge if it remained unmerged from Vaughan. Oak Brook may be small, but DuPage County has about 1,000,000 people in it, so it's not like there's a 418 foot skyscraper alone in the middle of the prairie.

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Thanks for the interesting insight.
So I guess DuPage County could be compared to York Region.

 

[idc24]

https://www.google.ca/url?sa=i&sour...aw2veT1FEfEvtKuK4Adx56BG&ust=1531514127533146

 

[.dwg]

I wonder where the most remote skyscraper is in North America; i.e. in a place that is not part of a suburban/metro type of situation. I was intrigued about the one mentioned above but it's located in a very suburban environment that surrounds it entirely.