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Approaching three years since the first shoring rigs began work on Menkes Developments' Sugar Wharf community on Toronto's Waterfront LCBO lands, the mixed-use development's initial phases are moving along through construction. Work began at the end of 2017 for the complex's office tower, the 25-storey, B+H Architects-designed 100 Queens Quay East, followed in mid-2018 by the start of the 64 and 70-storey architectsAlliance-designed Sugar Wharf Condos towers to the north.
Both of these neighbouring projects have advanced considerably in the time since. With a half-year head start, the office tower is much further along, having topped out 117.34 metres above Queens Quay East in August. In the time since, the tower's poured concrete mechanical penthouse has been surrounded by structural steel to complete the tower's skyline. Installation of the building's textured, dark-tinted curtainwall glazing is now approaching completion, with just sections of the mechanical penthouse and the areas covered by exterior hoists awaiting enclosure.
To the north, the two-tower first phase condominium complex includes a large conjoined podium, now rising eight storeys at its north end along Lake Shore Boulevard East. In the northwest corner of the podium you can now see where the 70-storey tower will be supported by the extra-thick structural columns rising through the podium floor-plates.
A separate podium volume is now wrapping up along the south side, morphing into the first levels of the 64-storey tower, a roughly baseball diamond-shaped footprint at the site's southeast corner. This tower will rise 64 storeys and an eventual height of 218 metres, while the northwest tower soon to emerge from the podium levels is set to rise 70 storeys, reaching a height of 230 metres.
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