am29
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I can't wait until the summer time hopefully this will be topping off and the windows get installed quickly. Beautiful building all in all!
I can't wait until the summer time hopefully this will be topping off and the windows get installed quickly. Beautiful building all in all!
....No one doubts that 300m+ towers aren't economically viable, it's just simply doubtful Toronto has the need for 300m+ right now..
I'm not getting your point, what do you mean Toronto doesn't "need" a 300m+ tower right now? We have probably 50 buildings under construction currently. If you combined say 5 of them, you would have 45 projects under construction , one of which would be 300m+. Whats the difference?
If the economics work for the developer, why are we shutting them down? The original proposal by Mirvish was most likely quite viable due to the sale of additional units. Now there is not enough units to sell to generate the necessary cashflow for the gallery, yet we think we won something because we forced him to scale down. Meanwhile less than a block or so away, another developer is proposing a project that will include far more units than we snatched away from Mirvish - so we haven't created a reduction in density (as if we needed to) all we did was water down a magnificent project and lose a potentially world class art gallery. Do you see a win here?
Pouring cement today. I think for the 43rd floor.
Note that the current MG proposal is actually taller than the original one, and that the decrease in density really has to do with saving PoW Theatre and the unavailability of that site for an additional tower, and not because the tower itself was somehow reduced in scale.
AoD
The only thing I don't like is the balcony railings. The white shows up too much. They should have been painted darker.
You wanted the heritage buildings gone, and you lost. The city is getting a spectacular landmark and an art gallery without giving up heritage buildings or cultural institutions. The city didn't compromise. It got everything it wanted for the public interest in that case, and Toronto will be better off for it.
Hardly show? They show up quite clearly to me, and that's why I made the comment.But you'll hardly see them once the fritted glass is in place... Look at the balconies on the podium. Those railings hardly show through the ceramic fritted glass.