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

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So the park will come after the 2nd building is done?
Looks like they are planning to have a portion of it done, but I imagine there will be a lot of regulations that would prohibit someone from actually using said park (construction above).
 
Today is a Pano from west to east. When I moved into this building there was only AirCanada Centre, Royal York Hotel, the old train shed, Brookefield Place and 18 Yonge St

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Sunday, October 4 at 5 PM:

A working weekend for some of the construction staff at CIBC Square. Yesterday, the tower crane worked right into the Saturday evening, stopping its lifts at 6:35 PM. Today, Sunday at 5 PM, the crane is still working as per this (long distance) photo.

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Sunday, October 4 at 5 PM:

A working weekend for some of the construction staff at CIBC Square. Yesterday, the tower crane worked right into the Saturday evening, stopping its lifts at 6:35 PM. Today, Sunday at 5 PM, the crane is still working as per this (long distance) photo.

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Probably trying to complete all 'crane tasks' so it can be removed and the building sealed up before winter.
 
Exchange is Phase II of FCP. Initially it was envisioned as a shorter, twin-tower complex of equal height, but O&Y pushed to construct the tallest bank tower in the world along with a second, smaller phase. Planning fought hard against this but, in true Planning fashion, lost, and now we have a very excellent building that bothers precisely no-one and people generally think of as emblematic of 'Downtown Toronto'.
 
Exchange is Phase II of FCP. Initially it was envisioned as a shorter, twin-tower complex of equal height, but O&Y pushed to construct the tallest bank tower in the world along with a second, smaller phase. Planning fought hard against this but, in true Planning fashion, lost, and now we have a very excellent building that bothers precisely no-one and people generally think of as emblematic of 'Downtown Toronto'.

Wow, I had no idea, that's a very interesting bit of history, thanks for sharing !

I'd also add exchange tower is huge with its bulky floor plates i.e. it would be a lot of office space to replace.
 
If I'm reading this right:
Building Size:
1,230,709 Sq Ft

Its podium is huge.
So it has just about the exact same amount of office space as the building that is the subject of this thread :)

If I recall, one of the reasons the podium is huge is it hosted the stock exchange trading floor... definitely long before social distancing.

Edit: ^ WikiWand confirmed my often-challenged memory 'banks'. Interesting tid-bit: the trading floor closed in April 1997 (the second-largest stock exchange in North America to choose a floor-less, electronic/virtual trading environment (presumably with desks, chairs and computers somewhere ;).
 
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