Northern Light
Superstar
An Encroachment Agreement will come before the next meeting of TEYCC to allow a pedestrian bridge (PATH) to connect CIBC Square to the condominium at 1 Esplanade and the east side of Yonge.
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trtcttc
Active Member
Is this part of the elevated PATH extension to the new Pinnacle development and the Eastward on waterfront? Seems kind of random to connect CIBC Square to a condo building unless it’s for something else.
Northern Light
Superstar
You made me look! LOL
So first, I looked in the Encroachment Agreement to which I linked.........but it wasn't really clear on the point.
However, while I was doing that I did find the render for the Bay Street bridge from Union Station to CIBC Square. So let me start there:
So then I used my Google-fu to find details of the PATH system Masterplan.......... and lo' and behold I came up with a Front Page story UT ran some years back......which highlights this exact spot. (from 2011)
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PATH Master Plan Study - A Look at the Future Vision for the Pedestrian System. | UrbanToronto
The City hosted a PATH Master Plan public meeting to present the lastest updates and invite the public to contribute their thoughts and suggestions before the study is complete and its guidelines are written out. The public meeting, as well as the detailed documents available on the City's...
APTA-2048
Senior Member
Construction from the train this afternoon:
Johnny Au
Senior Member
May 15, 2022:
travis3000
Active Member
Deadpool X
Senior Member
Window shades are spoiling the look.
bgobgo
Active Member
Agreed. I’m no expert but why don’t a lot of these buildings not have black blinds instead of the white ones that stick out like a sore thumb. Could be white on the inside but the external facing side should be black or a dark blue to blend in? Might be ugly or not practical but the current white is suboptimal.
trtcttc
Active Member
Would black attract more heat and heat the building up too much in the summer? Not a big deal in isolation but over the entire facade, could that be the issue?
wmedia
Senior Member
This building generally doesn't look as good in direct sunlight anyway, with or without the blinds. As others have mentioned, dawn and dusk are when it is really at its reflective best.
UtakataNoAnnex
Senior Member
I am not so sure, but the white bits seems to more or less partitions inside inside the building with the sun reflected back on it. As well it does appear they are mostly using darker shaded blinds instead for the most part...
...but you have to click on the respective pic to really see that, as it opens to a larger/higher res showing of it.
...but you have to click on the respective pic to really see that, as it opens to a larger/higher res showing of it.
mburrrrr
Senior Member
Johnny Au
Senior Member
May 23, 2022:
Northern Light
Superstar
Just three photos here, and not of the buildings, current or in progress.......
But rather, the trees.
Unfortunate news in respect of the phase 1 trees on the Bay Street flank.
The super expensive conifer...........
Is in deep trouble. While it may yet recover.............die-back of over 50% is pretty grim for a prognosis.
Interestingly, the smaller trees of the same species are doing ok.
So this may be an issue of lack of urban tolerance to the conditions; but it may also be the tree absorbing those conditions having likely had its roots cut way back in order to transplant it.
While it isn't the species I would have chosen for this location, and I noted the risk at the time; I might consider (were it my choice), getting a smaller one, roots in tact as a replacement.
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Speaking of trees in trouble, you've heard me harp before that Birch Trees are not appropriate to tough urban locations.............
I think they're almost all goners. Not surprising.
By contrast..........look at these:
Correct species choice matters.
But rather, the trees.
Unfortunate news in respect of the phase 1 trees on the Bay Street flank.
The super expensive conifer...........
Is in deep trouble. While it may yet recover.............die-back of over 50% is pretty grim for a prognosis.
Interestingly, the smaller trees of the same species are doing ok.
So this may be an issue of lack of urban tolerance to the conditions; but it may also be the tree absorbing those conditions having likely had its roots cut way back in order to transplant it.
While it isn't the species I would have chosen for this location, and I noted the risk at the time; I might consider (were it my choice), getting a smaller one, roots in tact as a replacement.
****
Speaking of trees in trouble, you've heard me harp before that Birch Trees are not appropriate to tough urban locations.............
I think they're almost all goners. Not surprising.
By contrast..........look at these:
Correct species choice matters.