[Roundabout]

April 15:

 

[someMidTowner]

April 30:

 

[Midtown Urbanist]

I haven't seen this in person in a while but wow it is really getting tall already!

 

[Freegoing]

From Saturday

 

[someMidTowner]

Today:

 

[Midtown Urbanist]

This is becoming difficult to miss from the bus on Eglinton now.

 

[someMidTowner]

This is becoming difficult to miss from the bus on Eglinton now.

It's also quite prominent from Mt. Pleasant when passing by the surface parking lot just north of Eglinton.

 

[FromSmallTownToMidTown]

View from the north on Broadway. Taken yesterday.

 

[drum118]

May 23

 

[GeneralGrievance]

Today's front-page editorial previews the public art piece coming to both 150 and 155. (It's a fun one!).
http://urbantoronto.ca/news/2016/05/stargate-pushes-galactic-boundaries-public-art

 

[Midtown Urbanist]

Canada Day

 

[Atlantis]

New cladding up on the lower podium levels

 

[interchange42]

Great shots, and pretty interesting glazing. I don't see notches for curtain wall clips, but then this is not typical window wall either, so I'd say we're looking at a hybrid system. Substantial mullions, but with floor-to-nearly-ceiling windows, a minimal number of them. Meanwhile, the spandrels, both the horizontal slab bands and the irregularly patterned vertical strips, look like they are translucent etched glass as opposed to typical opaque back-painted glass (with the occasional very darkly tinted glass).

That's looking not too shabby.

42

 

[mcmcclassic]

From today:

 

[Miscreant]

Solid glazing + nicely patterned mullions + strategically placed and designed spandrel = a job well done. And it doesn't strike me as obviously far more expensive or far more difficult. It's just more thoughtful. Obviously I have no idea what I'm talking about viz. whether it's far more expensive. But I'd be surprised if it were, as minus the glazing this strikes me as mostly a design not materials issue.