Toronto Monde | 149.95m | 44s | Great Gulf | Moshe Safdie

[Miscreant]

Great pics, @skycandy, and man, that is a nice-looking ice surface across the street at Sherbourne Common!

Yeah, I wonder if they rent skates there anywhere? I'm going down to the waterfront to skate this weekend; looks like this rink stands a chance of being less busy. Gonna be awesome to skate down there when Queen's Quay East is built out. Damn.

 

[Edward Skira]

Yeah, I wonder if they rent skates there anywhere? I'm going down to the waterfront to skate this weekend; looks like this rink stands a chance of being less busy. Gonna be awesome to skate down there when Queen's Quay East is built out. Damn.

I've never seen skate rentals at Sherbourne Common.

 

[Razz]

January 6, 2017:

Man this building is starting to move up fast. The 7th floor is already framed at the north (Lake Shore) end, and they're putting rebar down for the 8th floor pour. Kudos to the workmen slugging it out on such a cold -15 C day.

 

[ADRM]

January 6, 2017:

Man this building is starting to move up fast. The 7th floor is already framed at the north (Lake Shore) end, and they're putting rebar down for the 8th floor pour. Kudos to the workmen slugging it out on such a cold -15 C day.

Would've been especially unbearably cold right on the waterfront today, too. God love 'em.

 

[tripwire]

Yeah, I wonder if they rent skates there anywhere? I'm going down to the waterfront to skate this weekend; looks like this rink stands a chance of being less busy. Gonna be awesome to skate down there when Queen's Quay East is built out. Damn.

No rental skates AFAIK. It's also a very very small rink. Harbourfront rink is not that far away and is a much better rink IMHO. If the Sherbourne rink had been made a bit bigger, or incorporated some sort of path through the park, that would've been amazing.

 

[Ryan_T]

Would've been especially unbearably cold right on the waterfront today, too. God love 'em.

The faster they work and the more they more around, the warmer they would be.

But yes, kudos to even being outside in this temp.

 

[Jasonzed]

 

[someMidTowner]

January 16th:

 

[innsertnamehere]

by my count 1 level left on the podium levels.

 

[Jasonzed]

 

[Froggy]

Has the alcove with the overhangs on the Queens Quay facade been cancelled?

 

[modernizt]

Sadly, it is all but gone. I don't understand the choice to visually emphasize those horizontals at the balcony edges and not use a metal cap or some sort of stand-off glass railing but this is what it looks like now. Still a great project but I think this horizontal treatment is a misstep:

 

[drum118]

Jan 16
More up on site

 

[torontologist]

Sadly, it is all but gone. I don't understand the choice to visually emphasize those horizontals at the balcony edges and not use a metal cap or some sort of stand-off glass railing but this is what it looks like now. Still a great project but I think this horizontal treatment is a misstep:

Ugh, the insistence on balconies is ruining a design, yet again.

 

[junctionist]

The new rendering of the Queens Quay facade shows something considerably blander and less remarkable than the original design. The geometric arch was a focal point of the old design and gave the podium facade a landmark quality. Besides compromising the shape of the arch, they also got rid of the subtle two-tone cladding with stripes in favour of blander monochromatic cladding.