The clear Floor height of that area (from top of 6th floor slab to underside of 7th concrete slab) is about 4.9m (16'). And it is not a condo unit, it is considered a "look-out/fireplace lounge" with interior sculptural gardens and benches. :)

The original design did have the "protruding mechanical box" on top, somewhere along the line it was changed to be the size of the tower floorplate.

That looks odd, usually there is a requirement of some amount of cover (distance from outside of beam to rebar)

Sorry miscounted by a floor you are correct the last floor on West tower that has been poured is the 33rd floor, but it is the mech. roof slab, there are no more concrete floors for this west building, just a steel hss truss structure for the glass to extend up one more floor and have more of a...

When they pour the interior walls they pour the concrete to the underside of the next slab, they leave the rebar hanging about a foot or more above the next finished floor so the wall is already located after they pour the floor/slab. As for the slab edges and everything else, I believe they...

huh? West tower has the mechanical floors poured, when looking up the curved out side of the building the last floor with all the beams is the main roof slab (considered level 33), the level below the top slab is the mechanical penthouse floor slab (considered level 32) which has all the...

The Truss tables/fly forms are quite efficient since they pick up an entire bay normally, have pre-located pick points (usually 4) that have removable plywood at the crane pick point locations to they can quickly reveal the locations, once they lower the panel down from the freshly poured...

someMidTowner, I assume that the 117 peter street and queen/richmond pics are from the drone?

They are setting up rebar in that photo to pour the 11th floor, the top "office" slab will be 17th Floor, then their will be a Mech. Floor level, and Steel roof level to top it off.

Ya 10th is poured, walls are up to 11th.

Agreed, either hawc or LNahid2000 if you would be so kind as to take/post a photo, that would be great.

This first level seems to be taking quite some time. The fly forms (truss tables) used to pick up the concrete were created to extend out to cover the worst case at that location so that they will work for the entire tower (minus mechanical floors/roof) without modification. As for the...

Anyone notice if they have poured 9th floor yet?

Some photos from today, removing of some of the large panels from the podium floors

I believe early occupancy of retail isn't planned until after 44th floor of the tower has been poured, I believe this is due to installing the low lift elevator which cant happen till after the 44th is poured, and also they will need to create a temporary roof at one of the floors to follow OBC...

They are preparing the 9th floor for pouring. The newly built truss panels being used for the tower are a new style of product created specifically for this project and they are being checked to ensure they were built correctly before they start using them, once this happens the tower floors...

Agreed, doing this allowed them to decide now or in the near future instead of early 2013 how to configure the escalator/floor layout (or lack there of possibly?) for the "main" retail unit on the corner of Yonge and Bloor. (who knows even at this point if they have even confirmed a...

Hopefully they become highly skilled and experts before they start installing the glass on higher floors, especially when they get 70+ stories up.

Nice shot hawc, first few floors will be a bit slow, won't know for sure the cycle time until they get going. I noticed so far they have not installed the concrete pump, hoist elevator, or the self climbing elevator core, I'm interested to see when these will be installed (and if the self...

Original plans showed the second floor being completely concrete, similar to 3rd floor above, sometime early 2013 (April/May) the 2nd floor was revised to future installed steel framing floor, with concrete/composite steel deck on top to match 2nd floor beyond. There will be openings in this...