Toronto One Bloor West | 308.6m | 85s | Tridel | Foster + Partners

Collingwoodbuildinglover said:
I think that they have to wait until the remaining concrete is bored before they can move forward with the tuned mass damper as it is design for the buildings weight and not having those corners complete would be hundreds of pounds of difference between what the damper is designed for and what the current building is also if you look at hawcs pictures You can see that the core is still three levels down so they cannot close the elevator core yet
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Then they should’ve waited to hoist that beam until they were ready. But as I’ve said, by the time they are, SkyTower will have surpassed 300m and Tridel can longer claim to have the first ‘building’ in Canada to hit that mark. Oh well, such antics are to be expected when developers are in a skyscraper race (see NYC in the late 1920s).
 
Corners first, then the top bits...to my understanding.

...on the brighter side of life, the blue corner hording thingies are only two floors away from the top now.
 
Rascacielo said:
SkyTower will have surpassed 300m and Tridel can no longer claim to have the first ‘building’ in Canada to hit that mark.
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They can claim the first building in Canada to hit 300 metres FOREVER. They were the first and first doesn't change. The only thing they wont' be able to claim soon is the ONLY building.
 
hawc said:
They can claim the first building in Canada to hit 300 metres FOREVER. They were the first and first doesn't change. The only thing they wont' be able to claim soon is the ONLY building.
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I was referring to what would happen if they had waited until they were ready to work on the crown before having the ‘300m ceremony’. There’s a good chance that SkyTower would cross that mark by then.
 
Just one photo of One Bloor West today, from outside OISE at noon:
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Photos taken today, Friday (Aug. 1). Since I posted a week ago, all the blue corner scaffolds have been placed to around level 82 to install the concrete corners for the last stretch of floors to the top. Last week, only the SE corner was up, with the NE corner being pulled up as I shot. Also at the top, the external elevator has added a few floors, to levels 80 and 81. Down the tower, the black Rail Climbing Systems installing the building's skin remain where they were last week, at levels 64 and 65, though the mini-RCS on the south face is up 2 levels to 62.

Starting with the view up Yonge Street at Dundas, then from Charles and Yonge, showing shadows and reflections... and details of the top and the RCS levels. Then, by Holt Renfrew on Bloor a block to the west, on to Cumberland east of Bay, the tight shot showing the corner scaffolds all up around level 82. Yonge and Bloor shots, then Wellesley and Church, finishing off with a view from Queen's Park, and from a bit north of there.

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One Bloor West (The One) "time-lapse"

From October, 2020, as above-ground construction started in earnest at The One (1 Bloor W.) in Toronto. More or less a weekly photo usually taken on a Friday, with some gaps during early-on construction hiatuses. The initial photographs are from 2015, during demolition at the site, 2018, during...
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One Bloor West (The One) construction

Photos of One Bloor West (The One) construction progress, including a "before" shot from 2011 and several from 2015 after the demolition of Stollery's. Notable for becoming Canada's first supertall building, i.e., over 300 metres (985 feet) tall. (The CN Tower does not fall under the definition...
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