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So happy to see how fast they are currently installing glazing. I hope the RCS is outside my field of vision soon and just the beautiful glazing instead.
 
It's been almost 2 years since I was able to see The One from home. Picture taken in September 2022 showed the less than 20-storey tower rising behind the shorter 55C. Since then of course 55C has been completed and occupied, while The One continues its slow but steady march towards supertall status.

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Photos taken today, Friday (July 26). A rare week where virtually everything rose up a level or more - even the external elevator! So, since last Friday, the crane is up as are most of the blue scaffolds on top, having gone up a level or two, now around level 64, some 219 meters high at that floor. With the third mechanical sections cleared by the rising scaffolds, the tapering super columns are visible. Also rising are the blue corner scaffolds, as the hanger sections below are now almost complete to level 56. Meanwhile, the black Rail Climbing Systems (RCSs) below have all gone up, save for the east RCS. But that's because the north and west RCSs have joined the east one at level 36, the last floor of that mega-section to have its glass and cladding installed before they leap up to level 39 and start on the third mega-section. Which may be very soon. Even higher is the black "mini-RCS" on the south face, raised to about level 37, into the second mechanical area.The exterior elevator has gone higher, as mentioned, now at the top of that mega-section, floor 56.

After my usual Flicker "time-lapse" album addition, my mostly usual set of views, from Yonge Street south at Dundas, then from Alexander, attention paid to the second mega-section where the geometric cladding can more clearly be seen, nearly completely installed - note the pointy south-east corner at the base of the third mechanical level! Nice how the eye can follow along with the zig zagging cladding. Then the view from by Holt Renfrew, Bloor by Balmuto, then from Cumberland east of Bay, and from Bloor east of Yonge. Finally, from the west at Blood and Bedford where the top balcony of 1 Bloor E is now partly obscured by the rising tower. And finally, from down Devonshire.


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It’s looking really cool. I love the hangers now that the pattern is emerging. It’s way more edgy than I was anticipating, makes me think of retrowave arrows. I’d die if they ever lit it in neon colours. It’s going to look great.
 
Be careful there folks, they might just moon us in the next Mr. Benito's takes... >.<
 

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