Toronto KING Toronto | 57.6m | 16s | Westbank | Bjarke Ingels Group

[greenleaf]

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[Conrad Bidet]

Poor Elton John. You'd think 15M would buy you some curtain wall and frosted glass cubes...

 

[adHominem]

Goodbye, frosted glass brick road

 

[JAIPD]

I mean as long as the build quality remains high, I honestly don't mind it taking longer.

 

[AHK]

July 12 Evening - from Wellington and Portland. West mountain is still going up.

 

[Alexxs]

Important to say the project is not at a stand still; there is definitely ongoing work as well documented by @AHK.

A fairer statement would be that work appears to be progressing more slowly than one would have anticipated, and that the issue w/the cladding supplier may well be a factor.

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While this is true, I am under the impression there is cladding on site. IF that is the case ( I expressed when I posted that I wasn't 100% confident on the source), I'm not sure why it isn't yet being applied.

Westbank has already had their share of financial difficulties and this project not moving doesn't help. In terms of scheduling, the windows and envelope have been on the critical path for several months now and nothing is being installed. Every day with no windows is one more day of extra unanticipated financing. Interest on construction, development fees, land costs is easily $1M per month. OUCH

 

[officedweller]

Westbank just sold a recently built rental tower in Vancouver, presumably to raise money:

Westbank rental housing tower in Vancouver sold for $137 million | Urbanized

Westbank has sold its 2019-built, 21-storey The Pendrell rental housing tower at 1770 Pendrell Street in downtown Vancouver's West End.

dailyhive.com

 

[Towered]

Westbank just sold a recently built rental tower in Vancouver, presumably to raise money:

Westbank rental housing tower in Vancouver sold for $137 million | Urbanized

Westbank has sold its 2019-built, 21-storey The Pendrell rental housing tower at 1770 Pendrell Street in downtown Vancouver's West End.

dailyhive.com

That should buy them some of the glass blocks they need for King Toronto! Or, surely there are a number of semi-abandoned 80's buildings around they could pilfer them from.

 

[karledice]

That should buy them some of the glass blocks they need for King Toronto! Or, surely there are a number of semi-abandoned 80's buildings around they could pilfer them from.

Or used to pay their existing debt

 

[ADRM]

From the incomparable Norm Li, via his Instagram.

 

[fanoftoronto]

Picture from yesterday. Cred: My wife

 

[ADRM]

 

[AHK]

August 25:

View of the top of the East Mountain - still going up:

View of the top of the West Mountain - Close to being topped off:

View from the south-west:

 

[AHK]

The four King Toronto Mountains, starting from the South, going East, North and West mountain. The South and North mountains have clearly been topped-off, while the East and West mountains are getting very close, but still going up.

South Mountain

East Mountain

North Mountain

West Mountain

 

[evandyk]

What happens if they finish the whole structure and still don't have any cladding? Is there much other work in the queue that can be done without the shell of the building?