Toronto The One | 308.6m | 85s | Tridel | Foster + Partners

Urbia-Suburbia · Wednesday at 11:43 AM

Obsidian said:
They could also add the additional floors and sell them at a higher price per SFT as well.

I think increasing the height is costly and they're sticking to the original 85 floors. Breaking up the larger top suites into smaller units is already part of the plan.

C-mac · Wednesday at 11:51 AM

Urbia-Suburbia said:
I think increasing the height is costly and they're sticking to the original 85 floors. Breaking up the larger top suites into smaller units is already part of the plan.

It's only costly if they don't think they can sell the units right?

As bad as the condo market is in Toronto, this is kind of a special case as it's catering to a very specific niche, so I guess it's a matter of if they think that special niche will bite.

That's my guess, but I'm probably the least knowledgeable person here when it comes to this stuff.

Tuscani01 · Wednesday at 11:55 AM

C-mac said:
It's only costly if they don't think they can sell the units right?

As bad as the condo market is in Toronto, this is kind of a special case as it's catering to a very specific niche, so I guess it's a matter of if they think that special niche will bite.

That's my guess, but I'm probably the least knowledgeable person here when it comes to this stuff.

As I've said multiple times in this thread, they were never feasible to begin with. The building wasn't engineered to take the additional floors. The height increase was nothing more than a last minute attempt to convince investors not to bail.

C-mac · Wednesday at 12:22 PM

Tuscani01 said:
As I've said multiple times in this thread, they were never feasible to begin with. The building wasn't engineered to take the additional floors. The height increase was nothing more than a last minute attempt to convince investors not to bail.

Damn, wish I had of seen that a while back. I'm think I'm finally over the height thing and still going to be very happy with the building as it's really a gem. Pinnacle One might be the tallest, but this building will win for me as it's a much nicer.

FastidiousHack · Wednesday at 2:40 PM

Tuscani01 said:
As I've said multiple times in this thread, they were never feasible to begin with. The building wasn't engineered to take the additional floors. The height increase was nothing more than a last minute attempt to convince investors not to bail.

I have no idea about the developers intentions, but you can often tack on additional height to supertalls very easily, from an engineering standpoint.

Since the limiting factor is almost always drift (lateral sway), you just need additional damping. This thing already has a tuned mass damper, so they can just update the tuning for the new height to remain within the drift limits.

Elevator wait times is the other consideration, but there's no code consideration for that in Toronto.

Johnny Au · Thursday at 12:01 AM

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AHK · Thursday at 4:42 PM

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kotsy · Thursday at 7:37 PM

Freddy · Thursday at 8:18 PM

Is that a smashed pane of glass on Aura?

Riseth · Thursday at 8:19 PM

Freddy said:
Is that a smashed pain of glass on Aura?

I see it too. Someone's gotta get up there and fix it asap!

kotsy · Thursday at 8:55 PM

Riseth said:
I see it too. Someone's gotta get up there and fix it asap!

They'll get to it right after the broken light segments

AliAshgar · Thursday at 10:51 PM

C-mac said:
Damn, wish I had of seen that a while back. I'm think I'm finally over the height thing and still going to be very happy with the building as it's really a gem. Pinnacle One might be the tallest, but this building will win for me as it's a much nicer.

I agree. Pinnacle doesnt look very pretty.