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Maybe I'm looking at it wrong, but it looks like those super columns eat up a tremendous amount of interior floor space. Looks like the building is mostly structure without a lot of living space in some of those photos. Weird.
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The size of the flooplate is definitely deceptive when looking at such top down views. Here are the floorplans from the official site to give more perspective of what's possible in the space available.

The following is a 2-bed condo nestled between 2 of the super-columns totaling 1,352 sqft:
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The following is a 3-bed condo straddling one of the super-columns equaling 1,495 sqft:
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The floorplans do make it abundantly clear how massive the super-columns are as well.
 
Ok UT, I went for a walk yesterday......

It started here.

Photos taken August 16th, 2023 from a few different angles:

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Now from further north, on Yorkville:

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One last one, this from the south, at Yonge and Gerrard:

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fanoftoronto said:
The size of the flooplate is definitely deceptive when looking at such top down views. Here are the floorplans from the official site to give more perspective of what's possible in the space available.

The following is a 2-bed condo nestled between 2 of the super-columns totaling 1,352 sqft:
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It's hard to believe that this floor plan is over 1300 sq' . It seems they had to squeeze the kitchen table and couch next to each other. I wonder how much the super columns will block the peripheral view, especially since there is no balcony to step out onto.
 
Photos taken today, Friday (Aug. 18). Since my last big post from a week ago, the Rail Climbing Systems (RCS) are now all up to the 8th floor, the north RCS having moved up one level by Wednesday. The 8th floor glass seems to have been mostly installed on the east and perhaps the north side, though it's hard to tell with the RCS work platforms lowered, blocking a clear view. The north-west corner now has most of its cladding in place, attached to the west building. And while the glass is placed on the 7th floor on the west side, the cladding may be delayed by the extra cladding and glass needed for that west structure. Maybe someone here knows what's going on there? Presumably they'll "catch up" on the west side soon enough.

Starting with my usual "time-lapse" Flickr album update, where all RCSs are now level and some of the blue scaffolds have gone up one level, we next see the extent of installed glass on the south face for the 8th floor, then the NE corner and NW corner. Interesting to compare the super-columns on the south face with those on the other faces. There are far fewer holes for attachments on the south side, presumably since there will be no RCS on that side. The holes seen on the other faces aren't present for the blue attachment plates that the RCSs hang from. Some more wide shots, from in front of Holt Renfrew on Bloor, and from Cumberland east of Bay, including some tight shots of the two mechanical sections being working on simultaneously - the new one on level 37/38? (not sure if the floors are correct), where the top is now, and the first one, with insulation etc being installed lower down.

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The One (1 Bloor West) "time-lapse"

From October, 2020, as above-ground construction started in earnest at The One (1 Bloor W.) in Toronto. More or less a weekly photo usually taken on a Friday, with some gaps during early-on construction hiatuses. The initial photographs are from 2015, during demolition at the site, 2018, during...
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Johnny Au said:
Part 2 of 4 taken on August 16, 2023:

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Welding time!
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Do you ask these workers if they're okay with you taking photos of them like this? It's kind of invasive, they are doing their jobs. You could at least blur their faces.
 
khris said:
Do you ask these workers if they're okay with you taking photos of them like this? It's kind of invasive, they are doing their jobs. You could at least blur their faces.
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Anything (or anyone) you can see from public, you can photograph. There is no expectation of privacy in public.
 
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