[urbandreamer]

30 July 2009 photo update

Back from 3 weeks on the road, I find MLS appears taller than the Successfully ugly tower nearby:

 

[Redroom Studios]

nice pic, though I'd have to say MLS is the uglier of those developments...

 

[condovo]

I counted 50 floors on the south tower. Should be topping out.

I counted 49 storeys...twice. One more floor to go plus mechanicals.

 

[Ramako]

I counted 49 storeys...twice. One more floor to go plus mechanicals.

Are you not counting the large floor between the podium and the tower?

 

[condovo]

Are you not counting the large floor between the podium and the tower?

No. I believe that's considered to be part of the 10-storey podium. I could be wrong through.

 

[dcaley]

from telus and rbc...

 

[croman]

Those are some amazing shots of MLS, dcaley. So much detail! How did you get in the Telus building. I take it you work in there?

Keep em coming.

 

[dt_toronto_geek]

August 1st Update

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[grey]

Saturday, August 1st:

Here are the towers from the west side (sorry about the rough quality):

Ritz peeking through the middle there.

 

[dt_toronto_geek]

No. I believe that's considered to be part of the 10-storey podium. I could be wrong through.

The first residential floor is the 11th floor in each building. That would be the first line of balconies appear

 

[condovo]

Makes sense. So why is the southwest tower still adding a residential storey if it's already at the 50th floor? Aren't the towers 50 and 54 storeys plus mechanicals including the 10 storey base?

 

[khris]

I count the south tower as being 49 structural storeys complete. The first balcony being the 10th floor.

 

[dt_toronto_geek]

I thought the first residential floor was the 11th? That's what the floorplans start at.

 

[whatever]

The city drawing shows 40 floors of condos in the south tower and 44 floors of condos in the south tower. For simplicity they may start numbering both towers at 11, but in actuality on the south tower its only the 10th floor (because the higher ceilings in the office section meant that there's fewer floors in the south podium).

So I guess the "tenth floor" is the outdoor space on the roof of the podium, and the "ninth floor" for condo dwellers will be indoor amenity space (the pool's up there as well), but oddly enough the ninth floor will have a wall cutting off a large section of it, and the divided part will probably be numbered as eight for office leasing purposes

 

[Solaris]

August 2 2009 update