Toronto L-Tower | 204.82m | 58s | Cityzen | Daniel Libeskind

[Contra]

Love this tower. Despite as a whole it needing to be taller to make a bigger impact on the skyline, from St. Lawrence and Union, this is the perfect height! As a side note I'm loving the height to the Foster towers more and more everyday!

 

[mrjun18]

^That is very interesting. We don't understand how lucky we are to live in such a booming period in Toronto's history. We are living in North America's most changing city right now and it's been this way since the mid 2000's. With a new commercial boom upon us, as well as dozens and dozens of new condo buildings, a potential casino project, etc. Fast forward life another 8 years to 2020... Toronto will continue to transform at a rapid rate. By this time there will be another 100+ high rise buildings constructed in the city including several very tall 60+ storey projects. I can't wait to see Toronto once the dust has settled.

In addition the building frenzy, TO is getting new more modern streetcars in 2014-2016, a brand new train that will connect the downtown core with Pearson airport (2015), new Subway stops from Finch West through York University and north into Vaughan (2015-2016), as well as a new LRT line on Eglington scheduled for 2020 which will connect Humber college in Toronto's west end all the way to Scarborough in the east. We have a new aquarium opening in 2013, a potential massive casino project, etc. Add this in with the ever expanding PATH project downtown, and you have a consistently improving city. Toronto will be a very exciting place to live over the next 5-10 years.

^Love this post.

Cant forget about a few others:

-The Pan Am Village construction which include a new streetcar line on cherry street (I believe); and new road infrastructure in that area.

-The new tunnel that connects the city to the ever growing Billy Bishop Airport. (estimated completion date??).

-Union station expansion (scheduled or 2015/16).

-Queens quay redevelopment (scheduled for 2015).


I'm sure someone else can add even more infrastructure/transportation projects that will benefit our city.

 

[Leirum]

Skyjacked, I loved the clear picture of the Flatiron Building. If possible, could you take some pictures of the Berczy....directly south of the Flatiron.
Thanks and keep up the beautiful shots.
Leirum

 

[Hipster Duck]

^Love this post.

Cant forget about a few others:

-The Pan Am Village construction which include a new streetcar line on cherry street (I believe); and new road infrastructure in that area.

-The new tunnel that connects the city to the ever growing Billy Bishop Airport. (estimated completion date??).

-Union station expansion (scheduled or 2015/16).

-Queens quay redevelopment (scheduled for 2015).


I'm sure someone else can add even more infrastructure/transportation projects that will benefit our city.

When it comes to residential projects, we are definitely tops by an order of magnitude. When it comes to office projects we are probably up there too.

When it comes to transportation infrastructure I'd hesitate to say that we are in the top 5. But we should be in the top 5 because we are probably the 5th largest metro region in North America after NY, LA, Chicago and maybe the SF Bay Area and we are certainly the fastest growing among them.

There are other cities in North America that are pumping out more impressive transit expansion right now. The NYC region is building a new downtown subway line, a downtown subway line extension, a major downtown subway station expansion (Fulton St.) in Lower Manhattan and the Eastside access project (a new heavy rail commuter station below Grand Central). Of course NEw York is 3X the size of Toronto, but it's also much slower growing and has a pretty established transit infrastructure to begin with. Denver - which is less than half the size of Toronto - is building 2 heavy rail lines (both electric), an airport rail station, a light rail line, extending another light rail line and building a central station from scratch. They also have half a dozen lines in the planning stage.

We are not exactly winning the transit race.

 

[androiduk]

 

[SkyJacked]

Skyjacked, I loved the clear picture of the Flatiron Building. If possible, could you take some pictures of the Berczy....directly south of the Flatiron.
Thanks and keep up the beautiful shots.
Leirum

I may have discarded this picture before Udo put the touch on it. I wouldn’t have posted it for sure. I’m grateful.

 

[Leirum]

Wow. Thanks so much for this shot Skyjacked.

My unit will face west, so I'm so anxious to see any shots from your perspective. Keep them coming.

Leirum

 

[mrjun18]

When it comes to residential projects, we are definitely tops by an order of magnitude. When it comes to office projects we are probably up there too.

When it comes to transportation infrastructure I'd hesitate to say that we are in the top 5. But we should be in the top 5 because we are probably the 5th largest metro region in North America after NY, LA, Chicago and maybe the SF Bay Area and we are certainly the fastest growing among them.

There are other cities in North America that are pumping out more impressive transit expansion right now. The NYC region is building a new downtown subway line, a downtown subway line extension, a major downtown subway station expansion (Fulton St.) in Lower Manhattan and the Eastside access project (a new heavy rail commuter station below Grand Central). Of course NEw York is 3X the size of Toronto, but it's also much slower growing and has a pretty established transit infrastructure to begin with. Denver - which is less than half the size of Toronto - is building 2 heavy rail lines (both electric), an airport rail station, a light rail line, extending another light rail line and building a central station from scratch. They also have half a dozen lines in the planning stage.

We are not exactly winning the transit race.

I agree with this. Toronto isnt really a great city in that dept. I was just stating transportation related projects in the city. Thats all. We all know how horrible the ttc is, bad city planning in terms of roads/highways, how bad traffic/congestion issues are in the city and so on....

Look at Minneapolis (a city of less than half a million), for example or even LA and see their current transit plans which far exceed what is in/planned for Toronto.

 

[Razz]

SkyJacked: Thanks for posting all of those amazing pics. I really love the one above of the St. Lawrence market neighbourhood, and the closeup of the flatiron building was awesome.

 

[rpeters]

I agree with this. Toronto isnt really a great city in that dept. I was just stating transportation related projects in the city. Thats all. We all know how horrible the ttc is, bad city planning in terms of roads/highways, how bad traffic/congestion issues are in the city and so on....

Look at Minneapolis (a city of less than half a million), for example or even LA and see their current transit plans which far exceed what is in/planned for Toronto.

I think those cities are beating us is that they're actually receiving federal stimulus funds due to the recession. Our federal government on the other hand takes a recession as a signal to send all government attention and money to the oil sands so they can plaster us with ads saying how "clean" and "safe" they are...and build more prisons.

Canada, the only western democracy without a national transit policy. (Hangs head in shame)

 

[SkyJacked]

SkyJacked: Thanks for posting all of those amazing pics. I really love the one above of the St. Lawrence market neighbourhood, and the closeup of the flatiron building was awesome.

The Flatiron built in 1891 and when you imagine Front Street as following the shore and a boat docking at the south end of the St. Lawrence Market it makes this picture a bit deeper.

 

[rpeters]

Is it just me, or is the eastern skyline going to be nicer than western?

It's tough to say, I feel like the Eastern skyline misses out on a lot of great new developments like shangri la and ritz but has a great unimpeded vertical rise, my favourite view is from behind palace pier where you get an idea of the scale and immense size of downtown and also get a clear view of uptown and yonge and eglinton to remind you how big downtown is.

 

[SkyJacked]

Word spread at the Delta/Southcore project about the aquarium roof and one of the boys told me to check it out.

Edit by Udo

 

[DarkSideDenizen]

Is it just me, or is the eastern skyline going to be nicer than western?

It is, especially once they raze that old barn "The St. Lawrence Market" and put something decent there...like a nice condo/hotel/casino.

 

[DtTO]

It is, especially once they raze that old barn "The St. Lawrence Market" and put something decent there...like a condo/hotel/casino.

Aren't there already plans to replace it with something much nicer? I believe they had a design competition. I vaguely recall seeing the top (5?) Nominations and there being a public vote.