[randommember]

Picture taken earlier this week.

 

[hawc]

Said it once and will say it again.

While Skytower will win the height battle, this building wins the war IMO. It's such an aesthetically pleasing building and having such a tall building at north end of DT gives our skyline that much more credibility at giving Chicago a run for the #2 spot in North America.

I take a lot of shots of it from above. But late last night I was parked under it sitting at the light, looking up at it in the dark. It's STUNNING. Really takes your breath away when you see the scale of the details up close. I love it.

 

[achandi]

From this morning - July 14, 2025.

 

[interchange42]

5 floor deep pit? That's what will hold the TMD?

No.

So that 5 story 'pit' at the top here is all for mechanical stuff and then the 1 meter slab and then the damper on top?

Very cool.

5 stories of mechanical seems like a lot, but then it's a very tall building.

I wonder what the height of the highest residential floor is?

I was reading that this will have 32 elevators! Again seems like a lot, but I guess some of those are private or only serve certain sections of the building.

An extension to the elevator shafts is coming!

This probably isn't the absolute latest version of the drawings, but it's the first one I found with a cross section in it showing that the elevators continue to serve more suite floors, and then the Tuned Mass Damper will sit within the crown still to be assembled at the top of the building:

42

 

[prtk.g]

 

[skycandy]

Smoke gets in your eyes . And sometimes in your sunset pics.

Three sunsets in one evening….

A couple minutes later…

Final sunset…

Afternoon pics from the centre of the centre of the universe. And also from midtown.

Some heavy lifting…

 

[kai]

July 10

 

[hawc]

Always loved the view from Park Road. Glad you got a shot from there.

 

[jer1961]

Here's a photo from today, Tuesday (July 15). A single image, from Dundas and Sorauren in the west end... looks like the blue scaffolds at the top, south face by the crane, are now gone. Happened to be photographing Friday when the first of the 3 scaffolds on the south face were removed, now the other 2 are gone. Also, one of the 2 inset scaffolds from the SW corner are gone, now we see just one, to the immediate left of the crane in the photo. Presumably the scaffolds need to go before the corners can be completed, then on to the top. Can't see the east side so don't know if anything on that side is gone!

 

[Civdis]

A little urban alpenglow tonight!

 

[Johnny Au]

July 15, 2025:

Part 1:

Bay and Cumberland:

Balmuto Side:

Bloor Side:

 

[BloorMan]

From today. Some work being done in the mechanical room:

 

[OpenClosed]

Taken from bloor yesterday:

The cladding looks so nice, I really can’t wait for it to start climbing to the top of the building!

There really isn’t anything like it in the city

 

[Johnny Au]

July 15, 2025:

Part 2:

 

[nightstreak]

July 15, 2025:

Part 2:

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I wasn't a fan of the Christmas tree pattern (I preferred the X grid) but gotta admit that's quite nice when seen from the corners. Hopefully it attracts a hotel chain that makes use of the base for a lobby. This part of Bloor Street doesn't need more retail, it needs hospitality to activate the corner day and night.