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    Toronto Toronto | Forma | 308m | 84s | Great Gulf | Gehry Partners

    Well, if the test passes then the answer is yes.
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    Toronto Toronto | Forma | 308m | 84s | Great Gulf | Gehry Partners

    Well, not that I expected anything less from a Gehry supertall but this is certainly exciting! Sweating thinking about the diagram I'll have to draw though 😅
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    Toronto Toronto | 50 Scollard | 147.62m | 41s | Lanterra | Foster + Partners

    Per the arch docs it looks like they'll be some faux-windows.
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    Toronto Toronto | Grange Park | ?m | ?s

    Recalling back to my OCAD days but it was a bit more of a sunken concrete pit with some vents. Looks to be at least accessible now as I don't recall any ramps in the previous iteration. Edit: Upon looking back there was a ramp entry to the space but generally was just an ugly concrete pit.
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    Quebec-Windsor Corridor

    Acela has been pretty successful...
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    Toronto Toronto | Pinnacle One Yonge | 345.5m | 105s | Pinnacle | Hariri Pontarini

    The one is a bit of a mind bender with the curving columns. Will likely be revisiting the cladding but in the meantime...
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    Toronto Toronto | The One | 308.6m | 85s | Tridel | Foster + Partners

    Bit of a hiatus - more or less correct. Getting closer now...
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    Toronto Toronto | Forma | 308m | 84s | Great Gulf | Gehry Partners

    I fear my perspective is anything but fresh 😅
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    Toronto Toronto | Forma | 308m | 84s | Great Gulf | Gehry Partners

    Okay let's do this thing.
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    Toronto Toronto | Forma | 308m | 84s | Great Gulf | Gehry Partners

    As we find ourself on the cusp of getting to grade (getting above grade being the red-tape question at hand) it's time for a new diagram. Since some of you seem to like them, some so much you've decided to start copying them 😉, I figured I'd give a quick behind the scenes peek... I start each...
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    Toronto Toronto | Concord Sky | 299m | 85s | Concord Adex | Kohn Pedersen Fox

    You've outdone yourself with that second watermark.
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    Toronto Toronto | CIBC SQUARE | 241.39m | 50s | Hines | WilkinsonEyre

    No shortage of watermarks on this one!
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    Toronto Toronto | Pinnacle One Yonge | 345.5m | 105s | Pinnacle | Hariri Pontarini

    Well, we probably don't need two diagram updates but I had this one ready...
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    Toronto Toronto | The One | 308.6m | 85s | Tridel | Foster + Partners

    They just wrapped working on the mechanical portion of the building, which is certainly a cause for slower vertical progression. The cladding however, storms upward. (This should be correct within a floor or two...yadda yadda usual caveat).
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    Toronto Toronto | Pinnacle One Yonge | 345.5m | 105s | Pinnacle | Hariri Pontarini

    Well I see I've been replaced 😅
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    VIA Rail

    The mono-spaced VIA RAIL CANADA on the cars is *chefs kiss*.
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    GO Transit: Union Station Shed Replacement & Track Upgrades (Zeidler)

    More or less under Bay Street. This was a proposal for the rework of the loop fyi (source link has some other cross sections showing it under Bay). Source
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    Toronto Toronto | The HUB | 258.46m | 59s | Oxford Properties | Rogers Stirk Harbour

    What's the history behind it being "Harbor" on the building? I can't seem to find too much on when Canada fully committed to British Spelling outside of newspapers in the 1990s...

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