Toronto Sun Life Financial Tower & Harbour Plaza Residences | 236.51m | 67s | Menkes | Sweeny &Co
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drum118
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Sept 15
The building is history
The building is history
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Wow, nice pics Drum...the Toronto Harbour Commission Building (60 Harbour) now looks so lonely and out of place there.
What would be the chances to re-locate the THC (that is, with out dismantling it) back to the waters edge.
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Red October
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Oh well, hopefully what replaces it will be just as good if not better. If I see another plain glass box I'll probably shed a tear.
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Oh well, hopefully what replaces it will be just as good if not better. If I see another plain glass box I'll probably shed a tear.
Yeah i agree, stone/brick or even precast would be nice.
Bruvyman
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Its soooo weird to go down Lakeshore, Queens Quay, and even the Gardiner and see brand new cityscapes that weren't there a week ago while this building was still standing and hiding them.
TonyV
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Oh well, hopefully what replaces it will be just as good if not better. If I see another plain glass box I'll probably shed a tear.
If it's another plain glass box I'll probably be tempted to leave town. I want to see stone here. (Or maybe titanium combined with stone
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Red October
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If it's another plain glass box I'll probably be tempted to leave town. I want to see stone here. (Or maybe titanium combined with stone
Even a glass building I wouldn't mind as long as it isn't the usual box.. Glass/spandrel/precast/a small variation in the balconies is wayyy too overdone in the city already. Give me an 8 Spruce Street, Aqua, or stone tower.
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I would take a couple of 75 storey Uptown's over any glass box.
digitec
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This is what they are planning to build at the demolished site (90 Harbour St.)
It looks like the ordinary glass residences filling up most of Downtown.
What, is that even Toronto
AlvinofDiaspar
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Thanks and welcome to the forum. The bulkier, slabbier grey building look more like an office component to me.
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MapleLeafs
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It is, but it doesn't appear to be this site. It looks like it is on the parking lot behind the Harbour Commission Building (which is odd, since no tower has been proposed on that site that I know of). I could be wrong though.
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khris
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This is what they are planning to build at the demolished site (90 Harbour St.)
It looks like the ordinary glass residences filling up most of Downtown.
That is not this property. You can see at the base of that glass building is the Toronto Harbour Commission Building.
Mongo
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Yes, and the building is right across the Gardiner from the ACC. This building is on the 60 Harbour site. Enlarged and contrast-enhanced version of the above image:
This new building appears to be about 1.7 times the height of Waterpark Place I, which is 117.5m tall, so the new building would be about 200m tall (if the render is accurate). This is much taller than the 140m Waterpark Place III to be built just west of Waterpark Place I and II.
edit -- this actually looks like two separate buildings, a slabbish dark grey building to the east (175m office tower?), and a slightly taller, blue, point tower to the west. (200m condo building?)
digitec, where did you find this image? Oh, and welcome to UT!
another edit -- 200m divided by 3.2m (average height of a Toronto condo building divided by its floor count) gives 62 storeys. The 160m office tower (if it is an office tower) would be in the 38 storey range, otherwise (if it is a condo tower) it would be about 50 storeys.
This new building appears to be about 1.7 times the height of Waterpark Place I, which is 117.5m tall, so the new building would be about 200m tall (if the render is accurate). This is much taller than the 140m Waterpark Place III to be built just west of Waterpark Place I and II.
edit -- this actually looks like two separate buildings, a slabbish dark grey building to the east (175m office tower?), and a slightly taller, blue, point tower to the west. (200m condo building?)
digitec, where did you find this image? Oh, and welcome to UT!
another edit -- 200m divided by 3.2m (average height of a Toronto condo building divided by its floor count) gives 62 storeys. The 160m office tower (if it is an office tower) would be in the 38 storey range, otherwise (if it is a condo tower) it would be about 50 storeys.
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