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Balcony guard installation is on the go at Menkes Developments' Sugar Wharf complex in Downtown Toronto. As crews are still working on forming the upper levels of the architects—Alliance-designed condominium towers — of which there are now just a handful of more storeys to go on the south building, but many more on the north building — the balcony guards are beginning to animate the lower thirds of the towers with what appears as floating white clouds.
The balcony guards are starting to show the patterns from the renderings — a swooping, whimsical pattern that dances up all four sides of each tower — with real sunlight seeming to give them more of a look like passing clouds than the renderings indicated.
It is still early in the installation though, so as time goes on, and the process continues, we will be able to better make-out the final effect of the variously light and dark-toned guards.
As the towers continue to rise, glazing is being installed several floors below, forever catching up to the uppermost levels. Below, the portion of the shared podium that faces the Gardiner Expressway has seen its balconies completed, with work still being done on its Harbour Street-facing side.
The podium is in the process of being clad and glazed, and is now marked by a series of translucent fins that are visible from street level. Once completed, the podium's lowest floors will will include retail spaces while the upper podium floors will include residences and amenities.
Across Harbour Street to the south, first phase of the development also includes a virtually complete B+H Architects-designed office tower at 100 Queens Quay East which has recently seen LCBO's flagship location move into its retail base.
The second phase of the project will be launching later this year – with plans for, 79, 87, and 90-storey mixed-use condominium and rental buildings designed by architects––Alliance for Menkes, on the next block to the west, where the former LCBO flagship location used to exist before moving to the base of the office tower. The second phase will retain parts of the heritage former LCBO office building and include a children's K-8 school with space for 455 pupils.
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