BloorMan
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Unless something happens over the weekend, these will be my last photos for a week. Going somewhere warm on Monday 
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Collingwoodbuildinglover
Senior Member
Back just in time for the next mechanical floor 
isaidso
Senior Member
Your comment smacks more of tall poppy syndrome, one of this country's worst character traits, than Mizrahi being a narcissist. Whenever someone tries to create, innovate, or raise the bar, there's always an army of Canadians incensed and eager to cut them down. How dare someone do more that the bare minimum.
It's more a reflection on the person offended by driven people. It's the view that others shouldn't work too hard because it will make the rest of us look like an under performers.
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I wish I were able to keep up on the Forum these days and jump in whenever I can be of assistance like I always used to be able to do, but it has grown so much in the last year that short of UrbanToronto hiring another person and finding the best way to split my job in two, I am only going to be playing catch-up from now on, popping into threads here and there, like I've been doing since around June of last year. Here's hoping for a solution!
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wmedia
Senior Member
Tall Poppy Syndrome is an attitude I'm very familiar with from my home country (UK), but contrary to your observation, I don't see anywhere near as much of that from Canadians, who I find to generally be supportive of innovators. Not saying it doesn't exist, though.
Collingwoodbuildinglover
Senior Member
Id like to think of it more like icarus
UtakataNoAnnex
Superstar
Both observations are misplaced IMO and to put it mildly. As there has been demonstratively issues with this developer that where outside of audience envy and jealousy. Those have been mostly brought up as opposed to thinking some weird orthodoxy that this person can't build something this tall or fulfill this dream. And this certainly hasn't been thing over with even the now taller Pinnacle One...
...conversely, Mizrahi is certainly no Trump or Musk when trying to fulfill those dreams. And because he played fast and loose with financing and rules that later got him into trouble, is no evidence he was a narcissist of any degree...he was not an abusive or toxic person that would fire anyone who looked at him wrong or an attention getting authoritarian, as far as I am aware. So poppycock for calling him that. Really.
So it's bunch of pointless innuendoes thrown around by parties without really dealing with what's going on or what happened here, IMO. Meanwhile the show of this building being constructed moves on unabated. Is that not what we really wanted in the end?
jer1961
Active Member
Photos taken yesterday, Friday (Mar. 1). Dramatic news since my last update a week ago with the announcement that Sam Mizrahi will be removed from the project and Skygrid will take over Mar. 13. Meanwhile, the building itself continues to progress. The blue forms at top have moved up one level, at least on the west side, I think they are up to floor 55. The blue corner forms are up as well, to level 44 or so. The Rail Climbing Systems haven't moved up since last Friday, so we don't see more of the first mechanical level. But on the south side the new black scaffolds to the left of the crane have expanded and we have some more cladding on the super columns at the mechanical level. And more sidewalk was poured today on the Yonge Street side of the tower (not pictured).
Starting with my usual addition to the Flickr "time-lapse" album, views from the south on Yonge, from Dundas, and more views of the south including the mechanical sections. They seemed to have figured out their issue with "4" as the stencilled numbers on the elevator doors are no longer backwards starting with level 43... Some shots of equipment being hoisted up, then the view from by Holt Renfrew on Bloor, a few shots from Cumberland east of Bay, then a new view from Cumberland around Yorkville Park, finally the view from Bloor and Bedford, 1 Bloor W now covering a lot of 1 Bloor E.
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Starting with my usual addition to the Flickr "time-lapse" album, views from the south on Yonge, from Dundas, and more views of the south including the mechanical sections. They seemed to have figured out their issue with "4" as the stencilled numbers on the elevator doors are no longer backwards starting with level 43... Some shots of equipment being hoisted up, then the view from by Holt Renfrew on Bloor, a few shots from Cumberland east of Bay, then a new view from Cumberland around Yorkville Park, finally the view from Bloor and Bedford, 1 Bloor W now covering a lot of 1 Bloor E.
One Bloor West (The One) "time-lapse"
From October, 2020, as above-ground construction started in earnest at The One (1 Bloor W.) in Toronto. More or less a weekly photo usually taken on a Friday, with some gaps during early-on construction hiatuses. The initial photographs are from 2015, during demolition at the site, 2018, during...
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smably
Senior Member
Glad to hear that the exterior expression won't be changing partway up. Could have been Toronto's very own One Wall Centre if things had turned out differently.
BloorMan
Active Member
I think the mechanical level is the next level that will be poured. It seems they have extra column forms installed to support the load. Is level 55 the next mechanical level? I was thinking the crane would have grown taller today but it will need extra supports installed. Perhaps that will happen mid-week sometime.Back just in time for the next mechanical floor
Collingwoodbuildinglover
Senior Member
Looking at the floor count I think we have three more floors to go usually the RCS covers two floors below the one that they are currently working on this would mean they are halfway through one of the angular sections I think I maybe wrong
cityspace
Active Member
Your analysis is missing a key insight, IMO! A certain level of overconfident, frivolous, imprudent, despotic and narcissistic financial and professional delusion may be necessary for the inception of a design of this caliber, IMO.
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jozl
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The third photo from the top of this page reveals a hawk soaring in front of the blue corner RCS. Pretty cool, maybe a good omen?
UtakataNoAnnex
Superstar
Nah...that's just a member of our city's volunteer pigeon disposal unit. <3
its_Caffeine
New Member
It used to be worse. I think generally people have started becoming more warm to people who innovate and take risks. It's welcoming change imo. Tall Poppy Syndrome is something we could do without.
Yeah, I fully agree with this. Mizrahi took a lot of risk with financing that eventually got him into trouble but I don't think he's a "bad" person that his detractors are trying to paint him as. The Americans are very used to these sorts of financial failures where someone takes on some degree of risk and can't always execute despite their best efforts.