Toronto CHAZ | 150.87m | 47s | 45 Charles Ltd | P + S / IBI

[steveve]

Chaz is great addition from this angle. It's nice we didn't just get a 'box' here, because most of the Yonge/Bloor cluster are box towers.

 

[Benito]

A derrick has been installed on the roof.

 

[drum118]

Yeah, the sidewalks are way too small. I regularly have to jump onto the road to get past groups of people or slower walkers. The recent roadwork and sidewalk reconstruction has definitely made it worse too.

Oh and re. street walls, I appreciate a good one myself but honestly I don't see what's wrong with Charles. The buildings all blend into one another nicely here and besides, the kink in the road at Yonge means that any street canyon would be disrupted. I think this is perfectly fine and Charles feels insanely urban to me.

Jan 17
The sidewalks were never design for what is taking place now. It was a low density residential street.

The building is better than the concrete bunker, but still the old all glass current wall.

The tower crane could be down by the end of the month or early Feb, as the jib crane up there now.

 

[Benito]

The mechanical level is coming along.

 

[Benito]

 

[Benito]

more work on the derrick.

 

[Benito]

 

[victord66]

Crane came down yesterday. Always an interesting process to watch. Took all day though and they worked well into the night. The shaft is still in place and since they're not working today, I imagine it will come down in pieces during the week.

 

[Benito]

The mechanical level appears to be closed in now from this angle.

 

[Benito]

Looks like they are preparing to remove the larger red derrick with the smaller blue one.

 

[Benito]

The red larger derrick is now gone.

 

[Therion]

So they need a tiny crane to remove the small one that was used to remove the large one? Is that right? How far does the process go? Is the last step a tiny LEGO crane that a worker assembles out of a box?

 

[someMidTowner]

So they need a tiny crane to remove the small one that was used to remove the large one? Is that right? How far does the process go? Is the last step a tiny LEGO crane that a worker assembles out of a box?

There was an old lady who swallowed a fly...

 

[interchange42]

The last derrick has to be small enough that its component parts can be taken down in the exterior hoist (or if that's gone already, the elevator).

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[Benito]

An even smaller derrick is now on the roof.