My guess is it'll be a cantilevered staircase or a smaller balcony (but not a whole floor like at Union or the Hangzhou store). It does look pretty hefty but when you compare it to these construction photos I don't think it even comes close. Apple Union Source Apple Hangzhou Source

I was here when they started building the Union Square store. There was A LOT of steel to make that cantilever. We would have seen evidence of something that grand already - likely just to be a well supported balcony if anything.

Looks like the new super columns are reaching to Level 7 which is the first floor of hotel suites. The craziness of angled steel below that (Level 5) will be a double height floor used for Hotel storage (baggage, food and beverage), Level 6 has both residential interior amenities and hotel...

I would imagine we'd see some formwork around them before that. At least that's been the trend prior to previous additions (we're in uncharted territory now 😬).

Well we've definitely all been there 😅Some people having bad days everyday on here it seems these days...

Frankly I'm just tired of all this down-beaten pessimism for literally any project that hasn't even broken ground. We're already pleasantly surprised by the quality so far. Seems like half the posts in here are just nay-sayers and Toronto-bashers. 🤷🏻‍♂️

And people wonder why Libeskind doesn't get a lot of large projects 😅

I love this optimism. 🙄

This steelwork is really pushing me to my limit...😬 As always best guess and I appreciate the varying angles.

Yes I was referring to those. You can see in the photos they flirt between a champagne/silver and a very light brass depending on the light. Once you put these 100m+ in the sky though lighting changes quite a bit from test panels on the ground so trying to put some educated guesses together.

As cladding goes, and based on the irl pictures we've seen, I suspect it's going to be somewhere in between the architectural drawing (silver/champagne) and the artistic renders (golden/brass). You can see in my drawing below the difference (these are both using the eyedropper from the...

Suppose the side of a building on Bloor wasn't 5-star enough for them.

There's also no leaves on the trees so not really a fair time for judgement (unless we're talking ways in which we can make winter less grey in which case I'm all ears 😅).

Think it really depends on the light. You can see in the second photo it's got a brassy finish to it. Most of the renders have suggested a more muted brass (there's hasn't been a bronze tone to it since the first iterations way back when).

I should probably get started on drawing the cladding then...

Nice to see some effort on an otherwise completely blank wall. Reflections should be a lot of fun from here.

That horizontal beam added on in Benito's pic should be this circled area. Should be a pretty complicated collection of steel, rebar and concrete as the tower elevator core will sit directly above it.

I think he means the fact that the render from a few years ago and the live cam from a few days ago have the trains in the same spot. The answer to that is that's just one of the places where they keep the cars when not in use.

Still need to update the height but waiting on full approval on that one...so there may be more to go than this shows!

Guess there's no question what sort of camera Philip Hayward is using.