Toronto CIBC SQUARE | 241.39m | 50s | Hines | WilkinsonEyre

[interchange42]

And now you know the new name: CIBC Square.

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[interchange42]

And here's how it looks from here right now...

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[Automation Gallery]

Construction under way at CIBC Square at 81 Bay Street in Toronto

81 Bay Street

141 Bay Street

Number of floors

49 office floors +

4 mechanical floors

50 office floors +

4 mechanical floors

Height

238.46 m (782 ft)

243.1 m (797 ft)

Rentable area (square feet)

1,500,000 rsf

1,400,000 rsf

Parking spaces

366 spaces

443 spaces

Bike parking spaces

526 stalls

524 stalls

Total rentable area: 2.9 million rsf Electric Charging Stations: 12 spaces Elevated park area: 1 acre (0.4 ha) Projected certification labels / designations: Wired Pre-Certified Platinum and pursuing both LEED® Platinum Core & Shell and Delos WELL Building Standard™

Ceilings heights and floor plates:

• Typical low-rise floor plate: 30,000 rsf
• Typical high-rise floor plate: 33,000 rsf
• Typical Podium floor plate: 64,000 rsf
• 9'-6" floor-to-ceiling heights (typical floor)
• 12'-0" floor-to-ceiling heights (high-density podium) plus 12" raised floor for cable and infrastructure
• 42'-6" lease span | floor plates inherently flexible and highly efficient – steel structure
• Floor-to-ceiling windows enabling maximum sunlight penetration

Other building features:

• Acoustically optimized glass, designed to minimize noise and provide privacy
• Airflow will be filtered, consistent, and silent (NC-40)
• Highest international standard in office Internet and cell connectivity
• Enhanced security and hardening elements
• 79-ft-high signature ground-floor lobby with second sky-lobby at park level

Project timetable:

81 Bay Street start: Q2 2017, completion: Q2 2020141 Bay Street start: Q2 2020, completion: Q4 2023

Key project team members:

Concept developer: Ivanhoé Cambridge Investors: Ivanhoé Cambridge and Hines Architects: WilkinsonEyre and Adamson Associates Developer: Hines General contractor / builder: EllisDon Urban planners: Urban Strategies Landscape architects: Public Work Anchor tenant: CIBC Owner's representative broker: Cushman Wakefield Lawyers: Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg Leasing lawyers: McCarthy Tétrault Urban planning lawyers: Davies Howe

More...... http://www.newswire.ca/news-release...re-at-81-bay-street-in-toronto-629894133.html

 

[amnesiajune]

I'm sorta surprised they can get away with just 1,000 bike parking spots in a building that's supposedly going to employ 15,000 people.

 

[Freegoing]

Construction under way at CIBC Square at 81 Bay Street in Toronto

81 Bay Street

141 Bay Street

Number of floors

49 office floors +

4 mechanical floors

50 office floors +

4 mechanical floors

Height

238.46 m (782 ft)

243.1 m (797 ft)

Did they lower the height/proposed floors of 141 Bay? That's unfortunate, I know it neither tower was going to be the tallest in the city, but their impact on the skyline will be diminished significantly if 141 is being scaled down. Will have less impact than even Brookfield Place.

 

[interchange42]

Don't get hung up on the heights contained in the press release: the buildings are no shorter than they were planned earlier. The heights we have in the database file (and thread title) are based on the architectural drawings filed with the City for the Site Plan Applications, and the numbers represent the highest point on the screens that surround the mechanical penthouses on each building. I haven't had time to check yet, but their figures may be to the top of some other part of the building. If the docs for the site plan apps are replaced with new ones that have new heights, we'll replace our numbers.

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[salsa]

Interesting.

 

[innsertnamehere]

Given GO will have essentially no GO bus service downtown in 10 years (RER), it makes sense. Even now, they have dropped 2 lines worth of off peak service during weekdays. Once RER is complete, only Milton and Richmond Hill buses will need to still run.. and Richmond hill has very little off peak service.

 

[W. K. Lis]

Wouldn't this be a good time to work on expanding and improving the Union Station streetcar loop?

 

[amnesiajune]

Given GO will have essentially no GO bus service downtown in 10 years (RER), it makes sense.

There will still probably be the Hamilton-Union express bus and the Richmond Hill & Milton bus services, plus potentially some new routes where there is no Go Train service (to north Durham, Woodbridge, east & north Brampton, etc.)

 

[Filip]

And now you know the new name: CIBC Square.

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It suits them. I like it.

 

[Woodbridge_Heights]

Wouldn't this be a good time to work on expanding and improving the Union Station streetcar loop?

Certainly would make sense. Kind of a forward thinking move, like building a bridge across a river that can accommodate a rail line in the future.

Furthermore I would actually like to see entrances to the loop on the south side of the railway tracks.

 

[maestro]

The loop expansion doesn't touch this site.

 

[interchange42]

Actually, the west end of two underground parking levels will be given over to new parallel northbound tunnel which would lead into the tunnel shown in pink in the image above.

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[maestro]

I know. My point being nothing in the rendering occupies the Bay Park Centre site and it will be probably be constructed with an entirely different process and equipment. Of course, let's built it if the funding is there.