[reinventingthewheel]

I'm not sure what the dates are of the various illustrations in your post, but I went looking through UrbanToronto's archives for the last full set of architectural plans. There have been a number of updates to particular floors since then — architectural plans evolve as need be during building design, for many reasons, especially in regards to large, complicated buildings — but the last full set I have at least come from August 2023, and they include this elevation:

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So, there's the answer to everyone's question re: floors 25 through 28. (You were all kidding with the "heads will roll" stuff, right? Like they'd actually make a mistake on a multi-hundred million dollar building as to which way the floors were meant to angle?!)

Anyway, renderings are the last things to get updated, if they are updated at all. It's drawings like the above that reflect what's actually in the working drawings.

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Thank you for finding this, I thought I was experiencing some weird Mandela effect because I did remember this particular design and always thought it was what we were getting.

Oddly one of their data sheets in the AIC dated November 2024 still shows the total GFA steadily shrinking from floor 25 upward.

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

...wasn't there a pedestrian bridge somewhere out in the east end over the 401 where the contractors got something all in reverse? I mean these things do happen even on multi-million dollar projects. So it wasn't unreasonable for readers to flag this as a "What The Fudge!?". >.<

 

[citylights]

...wasn't there a pedestrian bridge somewhere out in the east end over the 401 where the contractors got something all in reverse? I mean these things do happen even on multi-million dollar projects. So it wasn't unreasonable for readers to flag this as a "What The Fudge!?". >.<

yes! The Pickering pedestrian GO bridge.

The contractor installed a truss upside down and mistakingly built the stairwell too wide to be covered by the cladding.

AG slams repeated hiccups in construction of pedestrian bridge over 401 in Pickering

The province’s Auditor General is asking transit agency Metrolinx why it awarded a $39 million contract to a construction company after it allegedly botched building a pedestrian bridge spanning Highway 401 in Pickering.

www.ctvnews.ca

 

[DarwinP]

I'm not sure what the dates are of the various illustrations in your post, but I went looking through UrbanToronto's archives for the last full set of architectural plans. There have been a number of updates to particular floors since then — architectural plans evolve as need be during building design, for many reasons, especially in regards to large, complicated buildings — but the last full set I have at least come from August 2023, and they include this elevation:

View attachment 731035

So, there's the answer to everyone's question re: floors 25 through 28. (You were all kidding with the "heads will roll" stuff, right? Like they'd actually make a mistake on a multi-hundred million dollar building as to which way the floors were meant to angle?!)

Anyway, renderings are the last things to get updated, if they are updated at all. It's drawings like the above that reflect what's actually in the working drawings.

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That makes sense! I tried to find these drawings and couldn’t find them lol

It’s such a weird change honestly design wise makes no sense to me but at least now we know! Thanks

 

[interchange42]

It’s such a weird change honestly design wise makes no sense to me but at least now we know! Thanks

…and while I know that the end product will look better than the elevation drawing, yup, that fussy detail and the thinking behind other, broader design decisions for this building are a bit of a mystery to me. Concord Sky will have its pluses when it's done, but overall, I don't feel it. Looking forward to the pluses nevertheless.

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[Red October]

^ I agree I think it's looking pretty jumbled and ugly, but given their track record I'm hoping the finished product will look good.

 

[Collingwoodbuildinglover]

So we did a reverse angle in order to regain the floor space lost by the last setback before they actually start angling back well that is one way to ensure that you have a larger floor plate higher up though I wouldn't want to be any of the owners of the balconies below this as their view about them will just be the base of the last balcony