[interchange42]

You're referring to the gray spandrel glass which runs between each floor along the slab line, only on certain corners of the building, mind you.

It's a design decision, not so much execution. It makes each floor more legible from the exterior, and completely subjectively you either like that detail or you don't. Personally, without the balcony shroud applied to the building yet, which to my mind is the major gesture which will set Five apart from all others, it's premature to declare for or against: without all the design elements in place, you don't have all the facts.

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[E.B.]

no! it looks so creepy.

I agree with salsa, it looks great. forget about the NYC stuff. It's old Toronto. I love it.

 

[ushahid]

The theatre looks creepy?

no the grey brick building with stairs.

 

[AndreaPalladio]

That's the theatre.

 

[raptor]

That's the theatre.

Isn't that 197 Yonge?

 

[ushahid]

That's the theatre.

then why do that building have stairs and windows? looks like a residential to me.

 

[Bruno Republic]

then why do that building have stairs and windows? looks like a residential to me.

It's definitely not residential.

 

[khris]

It's definitely not residential.

It's the back of Elgin & Winter Garden Theatres.

 

[ksun]

It's the back of Elgin & Winter Garden Theatres.

yes.
Glad something nice will be built there so that the ugly back of the theatre that makes that segment of Victoria st look like shit will be hidden.

 

[AndreaPalladio]

then why do that building have stairs and windows? looks like a residential to me.

Fire escape.

 

[Tewder]

yes.
Glad something nice will be built there so that the ugly back of the theatre that makes that segment of Victoria st look like shit will be hidden.

That side of the building was never intended to be on view, it doesn't front onto Victoria Street. Which part of Victoria are you talking about? The brick facades that do front Victoria are just fine and more so, as far as I'm concerned!

 

[ushahid]

Fire escape.

thanks for the information and sorry for the argument. It looked like some of the old and cheap residential buildings in NewYork city so I thought it is a residential.

 

[thecharioteer]

Removal by crane of the former banking hall's circular mosaic floor (cut into five sections) (http://themasseytower.com/blog/?p=451):

 

[Ramako]

Great pics. Glad to see progress on this. I was wondering just last night when excavation would start.

 

[Lenser]

How cool is that. Fantastic series, thanks for posting 'em.