Toronto One Bloor East | 257.24m | 76s | Great Gulf | Hariri Pontarini

[Benito]

Some updates from midday today.

 

[Benito]

 

[Benito]

image by B C, on Flickr

Working now on level 66!

 

[agoraflaneur]

 

[Razz]

Taken from the south east. June 26, 2015:

 

[Benito]

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OMG my building looks so tiny compared with One Bloor East in this photo.

 

[Benito]

A couple of photos from this evening.

DSC02081 by B C, on Flickr

DSC02077 by B C, on Flickr

 

[CityPlaceN1]

Amazing shots especially the first one.

 

[kris]

Benito what floor are you on?(I am not a stalker rapist)

 

[DarkSideDenizen]

From Rosedale:

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[interchange42]

That's quite the pile of One Bloor East photos from the last 24 hours, but I say it's still 8 photos short of a complete update. Here are mine from yesterday evening, getting up close.

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[kotsy]

I say it's still 8 photos short of a complete update.

I'd say it's still one shy


One Bloor East by kotsy, on Flickr

 

[amlem]

From June 26:

 

[Miscreant]

Thanks for all those shots. I'm looking forward to seeing the frosted balcony glass go up, as that'll be when we'll really see what this building is going to be all about. But I'm not entirely optimistic. I find the balcony glass already up on the podium to clash a bit too much with the cladding, and I'm not sure if, going up over 70 floors, this will make the building look too...unsubtle.

On a more positive note, i42's shots of the first floor mezzanine are really promising. Once the hoarding comes down I think the street-level experience will be really something. Whatever lands that retail space will have one of the best--if not the best--frontage in the entire city.

 

[TDotTeen]

As for 'NYC-style Canyons', only a few come to mind, namely certain stretches of streets that run in the financial district, but even they don't contend the claustrophobic, tight and tall canyons lining avenues in Midtown Manhattan.

The really disappointing thing for me is that, even if our current development boom continues, we won't be getting any new canyons any time soon. The guidelines for tall buildings outlined in the official plan specifically call for tower-base form rather than canyon form in all but a few stretches downtown (stretches where the canyon form already exists).