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Really? I find this project quite amazing so far. I wouldn't be surprised if the tallest tower is just a massing model. It is extremely lacking in details compared to the other structures. The dancing towers in Dubai were famous for great design a couple of years ago, but now that something similar comes to toronto, people just complain and say that they look meh. If these building get built, I expect them to become icons, and to be a key part of torontos built form.
 
Traynor said:
Ummm... Am I missing something??? This looks like an M.C. Escher drawing. The line from the roof of the Toronto Star building would not intersect the tall building on the corner of Freeland and Lakeshore. It would transect the tallest of the four towers (Corner of Yonge and Lakeshore) somewhere in the lower half of the tower.

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You are misinterpreting insertnamehere's image. The upper black line does not intersect the current Toronto Star building, it runs along Freedland street and passes directly over the western edge of the office building at the corner of Queen's Quay and Freedland, in the same plane as the other two parallel black lines

edit -- I now see that others beat me to this answer.
 
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Automation Gallery said:
Hmm, this will never be 1 Yonge street, for the last 40 yrs. that address has been assigned to the Toronto Star bldg. which isnt going anywhere, this is more like 7 Yonge, still prestigious but i dont know about all the spires and crowns.

Why not next door for "The Big Kahuna" .....rumour has it, that the LCBO lands is being baited for the new Toronto Casino, where there is more than enough room to build something "iconic", "unique" and "taller" with "all the bells and whistles".
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^I hope so. Because our building boom of the 70's resulted in a iconic 500+ metre tower. Hopefully we get some type of signature project in this boom as well.
 
mrjun18 said:
^I hope so. Because our building boom of the 70's resulted in a iconic 500+ metre tower. Hopefully we get some type of signature project in this boom as well.
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There were more than that number of 'iconic' structures built then. From 1965 to the late 1970s, Toronto built:

New Toronto City Hall
Toronto-Dominion Centre (considered by some the crowning work of Mies van der Rohe)
Ontario Place, including the Cinesphere and the Pods
Commerce Court West (one of I.M. Pei's classic designs)
CN Tower
Royal Bank Plaza (early PoMo, and still among the best of the style)

and I am sure I am forgetting others. But I also think that the current boom, while mostly consisting of mediocre designs, has its fair share of cutting-edge designs as well.
 
IMO, this is the most exciting skyscraper proposal in the city. It's a nice architectural ensemble, and it avoids all of the controversy that plagues the Mirvish-Gehry proposal as well as the Oxford-Foster proposal. The 252 m tall dancing towers are my favourites, but that 288m torso looks interesting and, hell, I even like the oval supertall.
 
There were more than that number of 'iconic' structures built then. From 1965 to the late 1970s, Toronto built:

New Toronto City Hall
Toronto-Dominion Centre (considered by some the crowning work of Mies van der Rohe)
Ontario Place, including the Cinesphere and the Pods
Commerce Court West (one of I.M. Pei's classic designs)
CN Tower
Royal Bank Plaza (early PoMo, and still among the best of the style)
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Eaton Centre as well.
 
Mongo said:
There were more than that number of 'iconic' structures built then. From 1965 to the late 1970s, Toronto built:

New Toronto City Hall
Toronto-Dominion Centre (considered by some the crowning work of Mies van der Rohe)
Ontario Place, including the Cinesphere and the Pods
Commerce Court West (one of I.M. Pei's classic designs)
CN Tower
Royal Bank Plaza (early PoMo, and still among the best of the style)

and I am sure I am forgetting others. But I also think that the current boom, while mostly consisting of mediocre designs, has its fair share of cutting-edge designs as well.
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^I'm speaking terms of height. That's why I mentioned "super-talls" and what not in my post. To make such buildings stand out in our skyline and from a far, just like the CN did for the city in 1970's. There really hasn't been that one yet so far in this building boom from One King West in 2005 to present. I just hope that we finally get that one striking skyscraper supertall stand out building.

Our building boom in the 70's gave us FCP, (tallest in world outside NY and Chi when it was built) and many other office buildings in the core, but that one that stands out the most and gives Toronto that iconic, signature feel is the CN Tower during that 1970's boom (this is what I mentioned in my initial post about a 500+ metre tower). Now in this building boom 2005 to present, there have been various condos and a few offices buildings built but nothing extraordinary (in terms of height) to give our skyline a more bigger feel. This project may do so, but I just wish something bigger and better was proposed. But again its very early to tell since we don't know much about this project thus far.
 
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We have L Tower. You can't see it from Richmond Hill, but it is striking.
 
agoraflaneur said:
I believe we are in the top 10 in the world for building towers over 150m. Show me a comparable city - other than Dubai, which is financially unsustainable at present - which is similar in population to Toronto that is more impressive.
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Not too hard to find.
China: Dalian, Shenyang
South Korea: Goyang
Thailand: Bangkok
Philipines: Manila
Malaysia: Kuala Lumpur
Americas: Panama City

These are comparable to Toronto's size (or smaller) and have similar number of 150M+, 200M+ buildings under construction.
I am not saying Toronto's current boom is not great and encouraging, just that it is not such a big deal or something not seen anywhere esle as many here seem to believe.


agoraflaneur said:
Also, it is a laughable statement to say that "the Western Hemisphere" (what, Africa?, South America?) peaked 100+ years ago. European and US GDP surged massively%
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Mongo said:
There were more than that number of 'iconic' structures built then. From 1965 to the late 1970s, Toronto built:

New Toronto City Hall
Toronto-Dominion Centre (considered by some the crowning work of Mies van der Rohe)
Ontario Place, including the Cinesphere and the Pods
Commerce Court West (one of I.M. Pei's classic designs)
CN Tower
Royal Bank Plaza (early PoMo, and still among the best of the style)

and I am sure I am forgetting others. But I also think that the current boom, while mostly consisting of mediocre designs, has its fair share of cutting-edge designs as well.
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What about FCP? Built in '75 by the same architect (Stone) who designed the AON building in Chicago? This is an iconic Toronto building is it not?
 
balenciaga said:
Not too hard to find.
China: Dalian, Shenyang
South Korea: Goyang
Thailand: Bangkok
Philipines: Manila
Malaysia: Kuala Lumpur
Americas: Panama City

These are comparable to Toronto's size (or smaller) and have similar number of 150M+, 200M+ buildings under construction.
I am not saying Toronto's current boom is not great and encouraging, just that it is not such a big deal or something not seen anywhere esle as many here seem to believe.
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Nice job buddy but the metro's of Manila and Bangkok are both double Toronto's size. Kuala Lumpur also has a larger metro population of about 2 million.
Please remove any Chinese city when discussing development projects as no one can confirm how much is being build for phantom residents.
 
Toronto's U/C numbers are easily top 10 in the world (in terms of U/C vs. metro population ratio) and #1 in North America.
 
Thanos said:
Please remove any Chinese city when discussing development projects as no one can confirm how much is being build for phantom residents.
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This comment shows so much arrogance when it comes to China. You read about one city in Inner Mongolia building empty condo towers no one lives in and decided to hinge on this favourite story, since it is exactly what you want, and claim all of a sudden all Chinese cities are inhabitated.

Both Shenyang and Dalian are vibrant capital cities with multi-million population just like Toronto. Dalian sits nicely by the Pacific Ocean and is a very desirable city to live. I guess for you Shanghai's development is meaningless too since nobody but phantoms live in that city as well?
 
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