Toronto Manulife Centre Podium and Streetscape Renewal | 9.75m | 2s | Manulife Real Estate | MdeAS Architects

[androiduk]

 

[p5connex]

looks shite!

 

[LUVIT!]

Is it curving?

 

[zang]

Is it curving?

Not curved glass, no — as seen in Benito's pic, the framing is all straight line.

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[ADRM]

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Yuck.

 

[UrbanAffair]

To be fair, it looks very slightly better in person, but yeah...not great, is it.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

To be fair, it looks very slightly better in person, but yeah...not great, is it.

Though TBH, can anyone seriously expect it to be - we all knew what it'd be like from the plans.

AoD

 

[Edward Skira]

A direct cousin to the disfiguration found at the top of Imperial Plaza. Though at least that one you can barely see.

https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threa...st-felcorp-onespace.3894/page-11#post-1030987

 

[Benito]

Today.

 

[Bayer]

I was told by a Manulife official (after complaining about metal parts being loaded on a flatbed truck at 3 am - who knows how many people it woke up) that the city actually requires curtain wall to be installed overnight, and I don't really get why that would be necessary. Can anyone confirm this?

 

[junctionist]

I was told by a Manulife official (after complaining about metal parts being loaded on a flatbed truck at 3 am - who knows how many people it woke up) that the city actually requires curtain wall to be installed overnight, and I don't really get why that would be necessary. Can anyone confirm this?

Perhaps it's the result of the mayor's office trying to clamp down on lane closures during the day.

 

[ShonTron]

Perhaps it's the result of the mayor's office trying to clamp down on lane closures during the day.

I can’t wait for construction to hit Bloor and Bedford. The city just sent out notices about watermain work on my mostly residential downtown street. I can’t wait for the dewatering vacuum trucks going at 3AM.

 

[junctionist]

I can’t wait for construction to hit Bloor and Bedford. The city just sent out notices about watermain work on my mostly residential downtown street. I can’t wait for the dewatering vacuum trucks going at 3AM.

It's hard to believe that the city still tries to encourage this sort of thing in 2018, with a burgeoning downtown population that is the envy of many North American cities. Downtown doesn't empty out like in the 1960s or in various cities in North America today. It's a series of neighbourhoods. People need their sleep. I don't buy this notion that "you live downtown, therefore you should just shut up and put up with the worst excesses".

 

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[Benito]

I was told by a Manulife official (after complaining about metal parts being loaded on a flatbed truck at 3 am - who knows how many people it woke up) that the city actually requires curtain wall to be installed overnight, and I don't really get why that would be necessary. Can anyone confirm this?

Our condo sent us a notice that this was going to be the case, so we were expecting it.