The Alberni in Vancouver is more extreme (and has many unworkable floorplans). It was carved out to preserve views from the pink tower next door.

20 York / Union Centre is keeping the existing older building in place, I think, so it's unlikely to have a connection to the north to 160 Front:

From Lawrence Black twitter posted April 2nd:

First floors with that spandrel pattern - they need to educate the workers on the design.

From Trish Jewison twitter posted March 18th:

A few cats and toy dogs saved!

Nice! They got rid of that stupid looking carve out at the corner of the heritage building.

Agreed! PS - this was my predicted route well before it was announced.

It's also Winter. The views of the valley from the train will be amazing after the line is built - much nicer than going down the middle of a street. Given the station placement, routing the guideway would not have brought the line closer to any passengers, it would just have the Nimbys...

On SkyTrain they can also be "special structures" if they are made of a different material (ie. steel box girder instead of concrete box girder). There may also be an arch introduced into the concrete box girder, which makes it look just like a bridge! This is at Braid Station in New...

Load limit?

From Lawrence Black twitter posted today:

Those particular ones will have full height glass enclosures around the balcony edge - one of the first around Metro Vancouver. In Toronto, the much maligned Concord Canada House has radiant ceiling heaters on its balconies.

Scotiabank is disappointing for the corner given limited banking hours. Is there a TD nearby? Maybe they'll take the flagship space at The One? Then you'll have banks on all 4 corners.

Nice. Good to see it lines up with the curved column 6 floors above.

Weird to me - that seems so off topic for a public consultation meeting... PS - no rendering of Crossing #2? I assume it'll also be a plain box girder style? There'll be some magnificant views over that whole section of guideway.

The bridge looks great. You'll already have the caternary poles and wires making it look messy, so the simpler the bridge the better. The double column piers are quite common, it seems. The Canada Line bridges in Vancouver are like that...

The colour palette of The One was probably intended to coordinate with 2 Bloor West.

The overall scheme has been revised. https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/jewish-community-centre-of-greater-vancouver-new-replacement-facility

So staggered brick here too. Maybe one tower has the stagger, the other doesn't.