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These look absolutely huge in person. The taller tower looks like it's on the mechanical levels now. I'm curious to see how they will pull off the rest of the curve overhang on the shorter tower.
No. None of them are on mechanical floors yet. Might seem like more height clearance because they are not working on top 2 penthouse floors. West tower on 32 (bottom). Taller East tower on 41 top/42 bottom. Whereas before it was a week per floor. Now, it's more like 3 weeks per floor.
huh? West tower has the mechanical floors poured, when looking up the curved out side of the building the last floor with all the beams is the main roof slab (considered level 34), the level below the top slab is the mechanical penthouse floor slab (considered level 33) which has all the mechanical units sitting ontop of it. There will be a steel structure on top of the current concrete roof but that will only be to extend the curved glass one additional floor beyond the current concrete roof.
No. That highest floor is NOT the 34th (mechanical floor). That is the 33rd floor for West tower curved side. 33 is the last residential storey for west tower. Mechanical starts at 34. Even the spine hasn't quite reached 34 yet (32 & 33 have larger height clearance).
Don't count podium as 4 storey. It's only 4 storey in middle (another way condo residents got short-changed on amenity floor - their rendering showed full podium floor worth of amenity on 3rd which became office space and amenity went to 4th floor and became about a third of size represented in rendering). Podium is only 3 storey on Yonge side and 3 storey on Beecroft side (as per that image you used taken by marcanadian from Beecroft Rd)
Fast way to count is the black holes on the spine - started at 18 and are at multiple of 3, 21 (covered now), 24, 27 (still visible). Likewise, East tower black hole at spine also started at 18 and are at multiples of 3, 36 is the last one on East tower.
I see these towers everyday. Attach are image taken today from by backyard and another one showing the black holes I use to count floors.
Sorry miscounted by a floor you are correct the last floor on West tower that has been poured is the 33rd floor, but it is the mech. roof slab, there are no more concrete floors for this west building, just a steel hss truss structure for the glass to extend up one more floor and have more of a curve. This west tower was misrepresented as 33 residential floors, but I can be sure that the 32nd floor has mechanical units sitting on top (boiler, electrical, chiller, pump, air unit, generator) because I needed to design the formwork/scaffolding to span over the air units and pick up the mess of beams on the mechanical roof slab above(@33rd). Last floor with residential units will be the 31st floor not 33 as this thread implies (penthouse floors are considered 26th-31st Penthouse floor 1-6).
As for the East tower, the floor they are currently picking up/pouring with the trusses and frames is the last "concrete" slab on the curved side of the building, this slab they are going to pour is once again the mechanical roof slab, mechanical units on this building will be located where the formwork currently is. There will be a couple higher concrete slabs on the other side opposite to the curve on east tower though. For this tower the last residental floor is going to be 40th not 42 as implied by the thread. (with 35th-40th being considered Penthouse Floor 1-6)
I like the green. Certainly different than the many shades of gray and black that are used on most new buildings.
For the shorter 31 storey West Tower which has the more dramatic curve top: the general outline of the 2-level steel HSS (hollow structure section) truss is done (still have to reinforce the truss, throughout). The curve side, spine, straight side and gaps have all topped out for West Tower. Now it gives a good visuallization of the roofline and how the curve structure will be at the top. Just imagine everything covered in the same green glass and dollarama green panel.