Ryan_T said:
Look at the second picture, the first two white panels on the right side (south side) of the building. There's a reflection of the glass panel that sticks out. That kind of reflection should only come from reflective panels. Of course, we're extrapolating way too much from renders.
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Well, if it turns out to be precast, it''ll get grimy really fast.
 
Ryan_T said:
Any chance they'll surprise everyone and use white marble?
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I'd say that they are more likely to unsurprise us and use precast.


Right now, who knows. My guess is that the tower gets the metal treatment, and the extended panels on the podium are precast. But as someone else has indicated, renderworld has no bearing on reality.
 
Xray_Crystal_Junkie said:
Uh oh. That looks like an awful lot of precast.
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A lot??
You do realize that is the only side of the building(and the thinnest side btw) that will have any noticeable amount of precast or whatever it is, right?

In any case I happen to appreciate this small break from the glass monotony that has infected the southcore district.
 
Tridel posted a (headache inducing) video on their facebook page showcasing 10 York. They also somehow manage to get away using video of Toronto's skyline from 2005.

anyway, grabbed a screen shot from the vid. for some reason I'm getting a niagara falls/casino tower vibe from it.

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Yeah that's a pretty terrible render...let's hope it's more like the stills.
 
renvel said:
Have you noticed , that Toronto skyline is constantly changing ?
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If, like me, you only drive on the east bound Gardiner once every few months, YES, the skyline changes every time I see it. To me, it's amazingly impressive, what use to be just a dozen or so tall towers of the core in the distance, is now a sea of shiny glass towers hugging the highway on both sides, feels like a completely different city then the one I grew up in. I can still remember the opening of the CN Tower, it was a huge deal, and there was absolutely nothing south of the train tracks except some run down shacks. But now, it's like the city exploded, I also remember as soon as I could see the sign on the Royal York I knew we were almost home, now you can't even see the building, it's buried behind Maple Leaf Square and the other towers in the south core. It literally feels like we doubled the core overnight. I often just look at it all in bewildered awe, it's astounding to me how we built so much so fast. It's changed so much in fact, my uncle, who was born and raised here, but left Toronto 20 years ago for Montreal, actually questioned the limo driver if he was lost when they approached the core on the Gardiner near Spadina. He simply couldn't believe how different it now looks, and just imagine how it will look once the Ice towers, the Harbour Plaza Residences, the RBC tower, Ten York, and 300 Front Street are finished, throw into the mix, if built, the three Gerhy towers and the Oxford MTCC redevelopment including its two hotel towers 200+ meters, and it's twin condo/office supertalls, and we'll have an entirely new skyline, I only pray I live long enough to see how it plays out (oh yeah, forgot to say, remember I mentioned I'm a cancer survivor? Well, I just turned 44 on the 1st, today I discovered it's back, in what little intestine I have left, meah, I've survived worse, but just telling you not for attention, but just so you know why I say "if I live long enough", fingers crossed, and thank god for OHIP!).
 
You've got the right, positive attitude to beat this thing. Mind over matter and all that. Keep it up and have a great Christmas.
 
Hanlansboy said:
It literally feels like we doubled the core overnight. I often just look at it all in bewildered awe, it's astounding to me how we built so much so fast. It's changed so much in fact, my uncle, who was born and raised here, but left Toronto 20 years ago for Montreal, actually questioned the limo driver if he was lost when they approached the core on the Gardiner near Spadina. He simply couldn't believe how different it now looks, and just imagine how it will look once the Ice towers, the Harbour Plaza Residences, the RBC tower, Ten York, and 300 Front Street are finished, throw into the mix, if built, the three Gerhy towers and the Oxford MTCC redevelopment including its two hotel towers 200+ meters, and it's twin condo/office supertalls, and we'll have an entirely new skyline, I only pray I live long enough to see how it plays out.
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It is good to see Toronto expand but you are over exaggerating the speed the city grows. There are 36 years between the opening of CN tower and today. That's a very very long construction season. Toronto's buildings probably doubled or tripled during the period, but this is hardly impressive from a global perspective, especially the tallest building we have is still from 1976 (not the same height is the most important thing).

If you look outside North America, plenty of cities grew 5 times faster than Toronto. Pudong Financial district in Shanghai for example, was basically a farmland before the 1990s. Now its skyline competes with Manhattan with ultra dense buildings over 400, 500 and 600 meters.
 
hanlansboy, i have the same thing starting for me, some surgerios are lined up. hang in there man. i will to. i like your self hope i livelong enough to see toronto grow into the city it deserves to be. with many super talls great places to shop, beautiful green spaces and so much more. thoughts are with you.
 
balenciaga said:
It is good to see Toronto expand but you are over exaggerating the speed the city grows. There are 36 years between the opening of CN tower and today. That's a very very long construction season. Toronto's buildings probably doubled or tripled during the period, but this is hardly impressive from a global perspective, especially the tallest building we have is still from 1976 (not the same height is the most important thing).

If you look outside North America, plenty of cities grew 5 times faster than Toronto. Pudong Financial district in Shanghai for example, was basically a farmland before the 1990s. Now its skyline competes with Manhattan with ultra dense buildings over 400, 500 and 600 meters.
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It's a little disingenuous to compare Toronto to the financial capital an emerging and newly developed super power whose economy is growing at a frantic pace. If you compare Toronto with any other western city on the planet, the growth has indeed been unparalleled.
 
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