[Darkstar416]

Ironically, isn't that the new Four Seasons headquarters in the background?

 

[mark simpson]

^no

Kilgour Estates & MacMillan

 

[Darkstar416]

Ahhh right. Four Seasons is however building a small tower on their headquarters just north of the Inn on the Park on Leslie.

 

[elook]

The top floor on the north end is the first part to go. Looks like this isn't going to take that long considering this is one day's work.

 

[elook]

More carnage. This morning the dust cloud made the whole scene look a little like the result of a terror campaign...

These closeups are taken through a pair of binoculars, by the way, hence the lacking image quality. Hopefully I'll have a chance to walk over in the next few days to get some closeups.

 

[elook]

Six floors down now. I would have thought they would do entire floors, but the strategy appears to be to go in sections from top to bottom.

 

[elook]

I walked over to the site this morning to get some closeups. What a mess. It appears that people are still living in the new hotel tower although I don't think it's a functioning hotel.

Didn't venture inside, but the more fearless wouldn't have a problem finding access.

 

[spmarshall]

Many thanks. I, for one, am enjoying following this thread.

 

[fiendishlibrarian]

Why didn't they implode it? It's a pretty isolated location.

 

[elook]

I was hoping they'd go that route, but it's sitting right beside (connected to, really) the existing Inn on the Park, and there's three condo towers on the same site as well.

I think the real reason is that they're doing reclaimation of materials. Looks like the rebar, steel and other materials that can be recycled are being picked out and piled up on site.

There was an article about this method in the Star a few weeks back. The Molson building at Bathurst and the Lakeshore is being dismantled in the same manner.

 

[elook]

Quick update today. Not only the Inn on the Park is coming down. Next door, the tower crane on Haven is coming off as well. The guys up on the crane doing the dismantling are nuts, IMHO.

Enjoy...

 

[elook]

It's been a few weeks since I've seen any visible progress on the demolition. However, site cleanup from the initial demo is being done. Today they switched methods with a large crane dropping a giant metal wedge on the southern corner.

Click here for a video

 

[alklay]

Thanks for the pics and video.

 

[spmarshall]

That's an interesting method of demolition, but it looks like so much work and soooo slow. I wonder if the traditionally slow method of wrecking ball would be much different.

 

[mark simpson]

thanks for the updates and that video is pretty cool



its be alot faster if they dropped more weight and from a greater distance