Isotack
Active Member
I guess it's just me but those columns do not look bulky enough to hold up all the future weight?
ChesterCopperpot
Senior Member
They will
AlvinofDiaspar
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Michael62
Active Member
I'm back from the Colosseum, where after 2000 years, they're still not finished, Friday
Westside Story: the ground level floor is mostly formed and mostly finished with its rebar. The elevator core of the building is now reaching skyward with very thick concrete walls and heavy blue steel frames holding things together. The ramp from P1 up to Ground Level is just beginning to be formed, and the north wall abutting trackside is having its gunite wall installed when this photo was taken.
Close-up view of the Elevator Core
Eastside Story: Still working on P2 in the space between Crane#3 and the east wall next 18 Harbour. Some of P3 is still showing in the south-east corner of the site and the rebar has been knitted together for the gunite east wall that will abutt the 18 Yonge St building. There will not be a P1 level in the northeast corner of this photo as this space will be double height to allow for delivery, sanitation and maintenance trucks to have the height and space to load, unload, turn around and exit towards Yonge Street.
Trackside: Looks like the steel for this section of the new parkland is mostly complete. I'm unsure why there is a yellow steel frame sitting on top. Could it be a base for a portable or moving crane to help with the assembly of the trackside park when the roof forming begins?
Finally, two bonus shots of the Train Shed with its mostly completed white roof. I've been watching them dilly dally with this for almost 10 years now. The last thing to go on top of this white waterproofing coat will be the green roof planting boxes. Hopefully, this will get done before autumn
Westside Story: the ground level floor is mostly formed and mostly finished with its rebar. The elevator core of the building is now reaching skyward with very thick concrete walls and heavy blue steel frames holding things together. The ramp from P1 up to Ground Level is just beginning to be formed, and the north wall abutting trackside is having its gunite wall installed when this photo was taken.
Close-up view of the Elevator Core
Eastside Story: Still working on P2 in the space between Crane#3 and the east wall next 18 Harbour. Some of P3 is still showing in the south-east corner of the site and the rebar has been knitted together for the gunite east wall that will abutt the 18 Yonge St building. There will not be a P1 level in the northeast corner of this photo as this space will be double height to allow for delivery, sanitation and maintenance trucks to have the height and space to load, unload, turn around and exit towards Yonge Street.
Trackside: Looks like the steel for this section of the new parkland is mostly complete. I'm unsure why there is a yellow steel frame sitting on top. Could it be a base for a portable or moving crane to help with the assembly of the trackside park when the roof forming begins?
Finally, two bonus shots of the Train Shed with its mostly completed white roof. I've been watching them dilly dally with this for almost 10 years now. The last thing to go on top of this white waterproofing coat will be the green roof planting boxes. Hopefully, this will get done before autumn
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kotsy
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Isn't the park supposed to stretch over entire width of the tracks?
whatever
Senior Member
Looks like steel columns coming for the lobby. You can see the baseplates there
Leo_Chan
Senior Member
Michael62
Active Member
Wowzers, you're very intuitive. It certainly looks like they are baseplates
W. K. Lis
Superstar
Where are the gladiator quarters? ...in the CIBC Square bowels.
vini007
Active Member
Can anyone please tell me who's in charge of the construction project and thank you..
raptor
Senior Member
EllisDon
Miscreant
Senior Member
Rumour has it that in the first round hedge fund managers are putting mortgage-backed securities up against complex derivatives, with collatoralized debt obligations reffing.
Oh wait, that's happening in the basement of another building. I believe it's called global financier supercapitalism.
But dammit anyways, won't the glazing on this building just be topnotch?
W. K. Lis
Superstar
TransitBart
Senior Member
That is not true. Next to the god-awful jersey barriers at Front and York, are lodge-pine wooden poles. It’s like the job somehow stopped and didn’t get finished. Baffling alongside such progress.