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

[Razz]

March 17, 2013 (St. Patrick's Day)

Taken from the Portlands:

Taken from Lakeshore & Lower Jarvis:

 

[udo]

20 months in the making ...

... July 3, 2011 - March 17, 2013:

[video=vimeo;62046538]http://vimeo.com/62046538[/video]

In case your mobile phone can't play Vimeo videos, here is the YouTube link.

 

[Logan]

Very cool! Thank you.

 

[adHominem]

That's awesome, udo. Well done!

 

[Southcore]

Some more press for our favourite crane operator:

http://www.torontolife.com/daily/hype/current-obsession-hype/2013/03/19/l-tower-photographs/

Congrats Robert

 

[kram74]

 

[Critique]

March 17, 2013 (St. Patrick's Day)

Taken from the Portlands:

Great picture! I would just like to point out the huge difference in quality of buildings in this picture. Amazing how the left half of the picture is made of green boxes with no intention but profit (exceptions are there of course). Surprising how bad it looks even without the worst buildings on the waterfront captured on the picture. The right side is definitely more refreshing and lets hope we see more of that!

 

[someMidTowner]

Today:

Canyons (I) by Jack Landau, on Flickr

 

[drum118]

March 15

 

[wmedia]

Excellent pics sMT. That vantage point down the Esplanade is something special.

Funny now to think that I was initally so concerned about the glazing on this beauty. It feels good to be proven wrong in this case!

 

[udo]

SkyJacked busy at work ...

This morning lifting down a RCS panel:

Yesterday they brought down boom and tower of the concrete pump. SkyJacked tweeted some amazing pictures ...

• http://twitter.com/SkyJacked793/status/314893756958638080/photo/1
• http://twitter.com/SkyJacked793/status/314894677163769856/photo/1
• http://twitter.com/SkyJacked793/status/314747070777008128/photo/1
• http://twitter.com/SkyJacked793/status/314748546958114816/photo/1
• http://twitter.com/SkyJacked793/status/314753478104854528/photo/1
• http://twitter.com/SkyJacked793/status/314758612478205952/photo/1
• http://twitter.com/SkyJacked793/status/314762665887166466/photo/1

 

[someMidTowner]

Wow, so does that mean that the concrete work has been completed?

 

[UrbanAffair]

Awesome, good news! Now how do they get this crane down with so little room up top? Would they just bring it down the same way they built it up?

 

[isaidso]

Just a superb building all around. 10/10

 

[udo]

Awesome, good news! Now how do they get this crane down with so little room up top? Would they just bring it down the same way they built it up?

Using the climbing frame the crane will eventually be disassembled in reverse order of the way it was built (one tower section at a time). But even if the form work is all done now (which I am not sure of), I think there is still a lot of work remaining before this will happen. I expect a lot of steel to still go up there, as well as the BMU (building maintenance unit) and maybe other machinery.