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

I’m looking at this completed section on top every day and I think the more I look at it the more I like it. And I’m starting to think that might be looking better than taller version would, I think it looks more unconventional this way, maybe its imbalance and disproportion makes it more recognizable and unique. Who knows what will we say in years
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artemperederii said:
Who knows what will we say in years
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Very quickly everyone will get used to it as if it was always part of the skyline and always meant to look this way. It won't be long until it becomes part of Toronto heritage. And similar to the art deco masterpiece that is College Park - for which only a podium was built instead of a grandiose skyscraper before economic hardship had brought the project to a premature stop - few people would ever know that The One is just a stub of what it was meant to be.
 
Full Metal Junkie said:
Very quickly everyone will get used to it as if it was always part of the skyline and always meant to look this way. It won't be long until it becomes part of Toronto heritage. And similar to the art deco masterpiece that is College Park - for which only a podium was built instead of a grandiose skyscraper before economic hardship had brought the project to a premature stop - few people would ever know that The One is just a stub of what it was meant to be.
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Difficult to call a 308m tall building a "stub". We merely lost 20m in total overall height as the final approval from the city for the height increase was 328m. But you are correct, ~99.9% of the people that will look at the tower won't know that it could've been taller!
 
It's going to be a nice landmark, but it's somewhat disappointing that there isn't much more to the tower design than the triangular hangers repeated over and over again--no setbacks, no unusual shape to the building, and no unusual cladding.

The colour of the glass seems to have been inspired by 2 Bloor Street West, which wasn't a particularly amazing building to take inspiration from (though one can appreciate some visual harmony between the two buildings versus a cacophony of designs at Yonge and Bloor). I hope they didn't water down the bold lines of the crown too much.
 
junctionist said:
It's going to be a nice landmark, but it's somewhat disappointing that there isn't much more to the tower design than the triangular hangers repeated over and over again--no setbacks, no unusual shape to the building, and no unusual cladding.

The colour of the glass seems to have been inspired by 2 Bloor Street West, which wasn't a particularly amazing building to take inspiration from (though one can appreciate some visual harmony between the two buildings versus a cacophony of designs at Yonge and Bloor). I hope they didn't water down the bold lines of the crown too much.
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Earlier iterations of the design had more articulation of the facade - indentations. exotic materials, etc. Unfortunately they got VEed. Considering the amount of troubles this tower had - it's a small miracle it got built. I'd imagine the whole thing would be cancelled if the construction wasn't as advanced as it was.

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Full Metal Junkie said:
Very quickly everyone will get used to it as if it was always part of the skyline and always meant to look this way. It won't be long until it becomes part of Toronto heritage. And similar to the art deco masterpiece that is College Park - for which only a podium was built instead of a grandiose skyscraper before economic hardship had brought the project to a premature stop - few people would ever know that The One is just a stub of what it was meant to be.
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It did become what it was first meant to be. The original concept was the 308 metre-tall building and the 328 metre concept was a later proposal that was just approved in 2023. We got the original design from I believe 2016.
 
Good thing I saw thaivic's shots showing work on the crown starting... so much for the shots I took before those beams went up! I'll go and reshoot Saturday, meanwhile here are a few shots from the west end of the new beams on the tower, taken today, Friday (Oct. 10). From Wallace bridge at Dundas; Bloor near Symington; Dundas at Sorauren.

Is the tower now topped off? Looks like they are up to around 308 metres - which is 1,010 feet. Even if short of that, today is a milestone almost certainly with the first building in Canada to reach that old-school milestone of 1,000 feet!

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jer1961 said:
Good thing I saw thaivic's shots showing work on the crown starting... so much for the shots I took before those beams went up! I'll go and reshoot Saturday, meanwhile here are a few shots from the west end of the new beams on the tower, taken today, Friday (Oct. 10). From Wallace bridge at Dundas; Bloor near Symington; Dundas at Sorauren.

Is the tower now topped off? Looks like they are up to around 308 metres - which is 1,010 feet. Even if short of that, today is a milestone almost certainly with the first building in Canada to reach that old-school milestone of 1,000 feet!

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Here is an estimate by @livesquid as to how tall One Bloor West will be when topped-out:
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Using ImmensleyMental's photo above, here's an attempt to see where it's going to end up

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The photos @thaivic took this afternoon also prompted me to take my own photos this afternoon:
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From the OISE vantage point used for the quoted comparative illustration this afternoon:
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So it looks like the steel beams at the top are at least at high as the renderings suggested.
 
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