[UpwithOlives]

Here are some pictures taken today. They are doing a concrete pour on the perimeter of the floor slab only for some reason.

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It looks like it steps up, so pour the perimeter, then place forms for the short wall/lip stepping up to the raised area? Same thing last time (#13,311).

 

[interchange42]

As this development is using the black covered platforms that will rise with the glazing installation, will they need to also build a canopy above the fruit store similar to the one that was built at Aura and shown below.

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Yes, but the canopy will be affixed above the last hotel floor at the first mechanical section.

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[yrt+viva=1system]

8.11.2023

 

[Rascacielo]

Today. Just one shot to show that the east platform has moved up one floor as glazing on the 7th floor (first regular-height floor) is complete on that side. Expect the north platform to move up soon.

 

[3Dementia]

^ This mystery may live solely in my scrambled eggs brain... but did I miss something?

@BloorMan's photo really shows how much open space there is surrounding the concrete mechanical box/space itself, especially the corners.

https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/attachments/20230811_104535-jpg.499339/

Didn't notice it before but the previous 94 storey rendering (and others) appears to have a glass balcony guard around the perimeter of the mech level... suggesting public/resident access?? Maybe I was asleep and this has been discussed.

Any clarification welcome with thanks.

 

[Benito]

Today.

 

[khaldoon]

^ This mystery may live solely in my scrambled eggs brain... but did I miss something?

@BloorMan's photo really shows how much open space there is surrounding the concrete mechanical box/space itself, especially the corners.

https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/attachments/20230811_104535-jpg.499339/

Didn't notice it before but the previous 94 storey rendering (and others) appears to have a glass balcony guard around the perimeter of the mech level... suggesting public/resident access?? Maybe I was asleep and this has been discussed.

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Any clarification welcome with thanks.

If you look at the below image cropped from a previously posted image by @Benito , you see that the floor has the same attachments as those used to affix the regular cladding. So I think these will be used to attach some sort of railing or wall.

 

[jm626]

Does anyone know the cost to build this building and why it's taking so long? If 160 Front cost $800M and was built pretty quickly is this job in the billions? I don't get the point of the over-design of this construction method, why not just use steel instead of concrete.

 

[jer1961]

Photos taken today, Friday (Aug. 11). As mentioned by Rascacielo above, an exciting milestone has been reached as the first "climb" of the Rail Climbing System (RCS) has been done. Seems this happened either today or Thursday, judging by photos in previous posts. The east RCS is now up to floor 8, if I have the floor count correct, the north RCS looks like it has the 7th floor cladding all in place and presumably will climb up as well very soon, and the west RCS already at floor 8 as it was placed there originally. So, we can expect all three RCSs to be lined up on the same level for the first time - maybe it's even happened since I was there mid-afternoon!

Starting with my weekly "time-lapse" photo - the corner scaffolds and the super-column scaffolds up one level from my last post a week ago - then shots of the first installation of the 8th-floor skin on the south face (hard to get a clear view from the street), to the newly raised east RCS and the NE corner, and north RCS, all with 7th-floor cladding now in place. The west face has yet to add the final cladding. Then, some more wide shots from outside Holt Renfrew on Bloor (where you can glimpse the unfinished 7th floor on the west side), and from Cumberland east of Bay.

My "time-lapse" album link on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jer1961/albums/72157718725607562

 

[vinny_the_hack]

Does anyone know the cost to build this building and why it's taking so long? If 160 Front cost $800M and was built pretty quickly is this job in the billions? I don't get the point of the over-design of this construction method, why not just use steel instead of concrete.

I read early on that is was $1 B. But I'm guessing it will end up closer to $2 B.

 

[Riseth]

Does anyone know the cost to build this building and why it's taking so long? If 160 Front cost $800M and was built pretty quickly is this job in the billions? I don't get the point of the over-design of this construction method, why not just use steel instead of concrete.

Concrete is stronger than steel and due to the unique ground level requirements, construction has been very complicated and slow. The pace has picked up considerably over the past few months though.

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

It's like a machine slowly revealing the sausage it's making...

 

[Johnny Au]

Part 3 of 3 taken on August 9, 2023:

Yonge side:

From Yonge and College/Carlton:

 

[BloorMan]

There is a lot of activity happening at the top today. Most likely we will see another pour on Monday.

 

[interchange42]

Yesterday's front page story that catches up with construction here (until just before the first rise of the RCS) has been republished with the official new 91-storey renderings replacing an early south-facing view in one case, and the revised Evening Hero shot from west on Bloor… and so why don't I give you that and more here? These are as large as our software allows, all 1280 pixels wide if you download them:

Thanks to Mizrahi Developments and their team for getting them to us!

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PS - the database file has now been updated with them too.