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Starting to pop from the waterfront...

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...here's why!!..

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Insulation installation...

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Beginning to add light framing trim on podium...

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And vertical white banding visible from the waterfront, enhancing the segmented motif (as well as identical treatment on podium as balcony separators)...

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In mountain climbing/hiking, there are often 'false peaks'. Can't think of an autumn that has had such amazing colour...and just when you think the colour has peaked, it then gets better. The westernmost (mature) trees have indeed lost more of their leaves but their younger eastern cousins were just brilliant this morning, especially in the rich depth of lighting on a moist day.

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Looks like virtually all of the cladding frames will be covered in those white panels...

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Wow. This is working its way towards an 'A' for me. More excited to see the treatments added to the West face with the slanted balconies, it will be much more dramatic.
 
From far and near....morning and afternoon...

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An ingenius way to hide a mechanical area if you ask me (assuming that's what it is).

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Prepping panels for the north face.


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Meanwhile along the waterfront...more white panels...

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The last vestiges of colour...

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Starting to pop from the waterfront...

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...here's why!!..

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Insulation installation...

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Beginning to add light framing trim on podium...

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And vertical white banding visible from the waterfront, enhancing the segmented motif (as well as identical treatment on podium as balcony separators)...

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In mountain climbing/hiking, there are often 'false peaks'. Can't think of an autumn that has had such amazing colour...and just when you think the colour has peaked, it then gets better. The westernmost (mature) trees have indeed lost more of their leaves but their younger eastern cousins were just brilliant this morning, especially in the rich depth of lighting on a moist day.

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Looks like virtually all of the cladding frames will be covered in those white panels...

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It's great to see liveable and useable outdoor space on both terraces and balconies. I wish there were a lot more buildings like this in Toronto.
 
For me, there's a lot of detail here emerging that this suggests this project has been well thought out. As well as the lack of spamdrel is starting to push my thumbs way up on this one. I would still like to see it more competed before before I sign off on it, but yeah...this one is continuously surprising me.
 
Agreed, I think it's only uphill from here. Looking forward to seeing the west face come to life and the sky gardens in the spring.

This is a big win for 3XN as their first design in North America. A promising new relationship with Tridel and I can only expect we'll be even more impressed with their next project together to the east of here.
 
I walked by this the other day. It’s looking great, but one smallish quibble.... I‘m not sold on the stripey balcony panels. Did anyone else think they were going to be wood/wood-esque? What they‘ve gone with is suggestive of the tiled mensroom walls in my local multiplex.

(render from Urban Toronto project database)

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