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I wish this thing wasn't built with balconies. The curves are completely lost with them.

It would have looked fantastic had the top of the tower just continued right down to the podium.
 
Tuscani01 said:
I wish this thing wasn't built with balconies. The curves are completely lost with them.

It would have looked fantastic had the top of the tower just continued right down to the podium.
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That would be fine and all but then again you don't have to live there. I'm sure the people LIVING in it will appreciate their balconies.
 
I expect the balconies will look fine when 1) they're done, and 2) the sun is shining. They're not helped by even light of cloudy days, but when the sun is hitting them at an angle, we've already seen plenty of photos where the drama is really cranked.

In regards to the super-thick slab up near the top @jje1000, I don't think it is a super-thick slab. Check out @G.L.17's second last shot above: it's just getting a drop ceiling over it, maybe to make it feel a little more sheltered. That lower penthouse floor is extra-high, and maybe the feeling was that the balconies would feel too-wide open at full height 75 storeys up.

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interchange42 said:
I expect the balconies will look fine when 1) they're done, and 2) the sun is shining. They're not helped by even light of cloudy days, but when the sun is hitting them at an angle, we've already seen plenty of photos where the drama is really cranked.
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In photo's it's looking great, but I live nearby and have yet to look at it and think so. It just blends in with all of the other glass towers in the area. Doesn't stand out at all.

At street level, looking up, its a different story. I just wish that the drama carried as you moved further away from it.

There was talk early on that this would look better than Aqua in Chicago from afar as the balconies went up, but it's not turning out. Don't get me wrong, it's still one of my favourite buildings in the city... It's just not as dramatic as I was hoping for from afar.
 
Anyone know if 1BE will have underground access to the subway, or just above-grade through the old Roy's Square doors at 33 Bloor East? Just curious with all the city's plans to bring The PATH all the way up to Bloor.
 
I think it looks great. Buildings - all buildings - tend to look washed out when the sky is grey. It looks chic and sophisticated. I frequently see it from the vantage point of George Brown, and it looks so much more elegant than say, Aura. It also helps that it has the two concrete towers at Yonge and Bloor to contast with, and they provide it with scale.
 
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