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Another street in Toronto has been shut down after yet another piece of glass fell from a downtown highrise building Tuesday night.
A large chunk of glass from the Festival Tower, the condominium above the new TIFF Lightbox, crashed on John St around 7:40 p.m., leaving the road closed between Adelaide St. W. and King St. W. as police and city building inspectors investigate.
It was the second incident of falling glass in two days. On Monday, at least two separate panes of glass exploded on the upper balconies of a condominium near Bay and College Sts. and shards fell to the street below.
No one has been hurt by falling glass, and no one knows why shards of glass continue to fall. The Bay and College building’s owner doesn’t have an answer, the city’s building inspectors are confounded and residents are baffled.
Glass partitions from the building’s north side balconies crashed to the ground Monday morning, littering Bay and Grosvenor Sts. At least eight partitions have fallen from 37 Grosvenor St. on four different days since December.
After the last incident on July 21, where two panes of glass plummeted to the ground, the city deemed the building unsafe. The city previously ordered the developer to fix the affected balconies.
“To my knowledge, we’ve never ordered a building to replace glass from every single balcony,†said Jim Laughlin, a senior official with Toronto Building. “But this had to be done because we don’t know why this is happening.â€
More....http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1033940--glass-falls-from-another-downtown-highrise
Fear of falling highrise glass closes two Toronto streets
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...ss-closes-two-toronto-streets/article2118045/
Another street in Toronto has been shut down after yet another piece of glass fell from a downtown highrise building Tuesday night.
A large chunk of glass from the Festival Tower, the condominium above the new TIFF Lightbox, crashed on John St around 7:40 p.m., leaving the road closed between Adelaide St. W. and King St. W. as police and city building inspectors investigate.
It was the second incident of falling glass in two days. On Monday, at least two separate panes of glass exploded on the upper balconies of a condominium near Bay and College Sts. and shards fell to the street below.
No one has been hurt by falling glass, and no one knows why shards of glass continue to fall. The Bay and College building’s owner doesn’t have an answer, the city’s building inspectors are confounded and residents are baffled.
Glass partitions from the building’s north side balconies crashed to the ground Monday morning, littering Bay and Grosvenor Sts. At least eight partitions have fallen from 37 Grosvenor St. on four different days since December.
After the last incident on July 21, where two panes of glass plummeted to the ground, the city deemed the building unsafe. The city previously ordered the developer to fix the affected balconies.
“To my knowledge, we’ve never ordered a building to replace glass from every single balcony,†said Jim Laughlin, a senior official with Toronto Building. “But this had to be done because we don’t know why this is happening.â€
More....http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1033940--glass-falls-from-another-downtown-highrise
Fear of falling highrise glass closes two Toronto streets
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...ss-closes-two-toronto-streets/article2118045/