Toronto Riva del Lago | 54.86m | 16s | Mattamy Homes | Graziani + Corazza

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No argument — I suppose at 2:40 AM I just was too tired to see that difference and needed the pointer! The change does make me think that by the time the HVAC equipment was all specced out and ordered that they found they could push it all to the north end of the mechanical penthouse, leaving space for a/some residential penthouse/s. The elevators were likely always going to go to 15 anyway (probably with a key), and now they can have a unit or two (or more possible) of two storeys each, bringing the building's habitable floor count up to 16 storeys. By making those upper units two storeys, they would not have to extend the elevators to the 16th floor, and can avoid creating an overrun above the already huge mechanical penthouse. There's probably a Committee of Adjustment decision allowing the higher unit count and/or gross residential floor area increase somewhere, but with their lack of indexing, I don't want to look for it!

I'll grab the new rendering and amend our dataBase. Thanks!

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[G.L.17]

Taken Friday via cell:

 

[interchange42]

Riva—including how it fits in with the generally much taller buildings around it, and now very close to topping off itself—from yesterday:

How much of this blank brick wall will be hidden? I don't remember how close Cove at Waterways, currently being built next to Riva, will be to it.

You can see a brick panel being raised into place, below.

…and there are already a number of them up on the second floor already:

I'm not certain if this two-storey high space is going to be a restaurant, but right across from the water, it would certainly be a good use of it.

There's enough distance between Riva and Ocean Club that most lower-floor Lago residents will have a view of the lake between them.

…and this shot is from between Riva and Lago:

…and finishing up, here's the view from Park Lawn Road across some of the Christie plant land that will be redeveloped in the future:

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[interchange42]

From yesterday:

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[Keyz]

May 28th, 2016

 

[GeneralGrievance]

Another construction update is up on the front page today. Thanks to @Keyz for the photos!

 

[G.L.17]

Drive-by from Saturday afternoon:

 

[interchange42]

Some shots from yesterday evening:

For more, we have this update on the project on our front page.

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[Marcanadian]

Friday:

Humber Bay Shores by Marcus Mitanis, on Flickr

Humber Bay Shores by Marcus Mitanis, on Flickr

 

[interchange42]

Yesterday, Riva looked like this:

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[Keyz]

August 19th, 2016

 

[Marcanadian]

Saturday:

Lago by Marcus Mitanis, on Flickr

Lago by Marcus Mitanis, on Flickr

Lago by Marcus Mitanis, on Flickr

 

[Keyz]

September 9th, 2016

 

[stjames2queenwest]

Looks pretty neat to me. Love the shifting balconies

 

[Keyz]

November 4th, 2016