Starting to remove the construction elevator on M1.

Construction methods, regulations and safety standards have changed since then so it is not an appropriate comparison. This project is slow compared to other condo projects in the city but not that slow considering the complexity of the design, the location, the restricted site size.

Starting to assemble the climbing protective platform/cover for the tower.

Today.

There aren’t many spots to observe the progress of the excavation work.

Checkout the images and videos in this article: https://urbantoronto.ca/news/2022/11/drone-video-reveals-never-seen-images-inside-core-one.50154

This will be the 32nd floor.

Done.

In the process of erecting the tower crane. Not sure if there would be a second one for the podium.

The concrete pump is on Palmuto so the cement trucks can lineup there or on Bloor. Other deliveries might have to be done at night after the retail closes.

I am completely guessing here but I think they will not open the lower floors until they install the protective canopy on the 17th floor. This would probably mean they will not do till cladding reaches that floor and the climbing protective/staging platform moves past that.

No. The west building is not even on sale yet - at least not publicly. However the link above gives an estimate for the construction value for both buildings.

I think that is for both buildings.

Though they have been achieving 8-10 calendar days /full floor cycles, inevitably the pace will slow down during the winter, add holidays, the fact that the mechanical sections take a month to construct and you get 49*1.5+3*4+2 and you get about 88 weeks (assuming only 85 floors) or 20 months...

Mechanical sections take much longer to build and there are at least 3 more to go (2 floors each) . Furthermore, it is still not known what the ultimate floor count will be depending on the appeal process and so it is hard to arrive at a single estimate.

That tower on the right would be approaching 300m since the blue capped exchange tower is 72 floors/~230m.

Where is this?

I didn’t pay attention if there were any flying objects around earlier but I think this one was taken around 11:30 so you might’ve been gone by then.

Today. With Voya on the left and SQ1 District just starting to peek out on the right.

Getting ready for construction.