[Johnny Au]

Part 1 of 2 taken on August 7, 2024:

Bay and Cumberland:

Balmuto Side:

Back Alley:

Bloor Side:

 

[Benito]

Today.

 

[Dustin William]

I'm really not feeling this one. I've tried hard to like it, but so far, the super mirrored glass makes it look too imposing. Sky Tower, although more typical in tone, will look far more elegant in my opinion.

 

[mininamib]

I'm really not feeling this one. I've tried hard to like it, but so far, the super mirrored glass makes it look too imposing. Sky Tower, although more typical in tone, will look far more elegant in my opinion.

The glass colour in real life versus in the conceptual images reminds me of a coffee table from the late 1980s-early 1990s, but I am hoping that the final product will look good and grow on us. Many iconic buildings were not appreciated when they were first constructed but won favour from the masses eventually - the most cliche example of this is the Eifel Tower

 

[Riseth]

August 8, 2024

Love how dark the glass looks on overcast days.

 

[kris]

 

[Vminkov]

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Jeez is that from Fairview mall!?

 

[BloorMan]

Some crane parts getting hauled up this evening:

 

[Johnny Au]

Part 2 of 2 taken on August 7, 2024:

Yonge and Bloor (aka the Golden Corner or the Champagne Corner):

Yonge Side:

 

[Frustrated]

Does anyone know why the first mechanical section is still not completely finished?

 

[UpwithOlives]

Does anyone know why the first mechanical section is still not completely finished?

Due to delays in the vibranium deliveries...

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

Due to delays in the vibranium deliveries...

...weren't they planning to use adamantium originally? That change of material maybe the real reason for the delay...

 

[fanoftoronto]

...weren't they planning to use adamantium originally? That change of material maybe the real reason for the delay...

Unobtanium was sold out at the local Home Depot?

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

Unobtanium was sold out at the local Home Depot?

...that's not under the Marvel brand though. Contract with the supplier has still be honoured even with the change of heart...

 

[jer1961]

Photos taken today, Friday (Aug. 9). Since my post last Friday, movement at the top, the blue scaffolds up a level as work gets up to level 65 or 66. The crane has been raised another segment, the new brace at level 60 in place, and two lower braces now removed. The corner scaffolds remain at the foot of the third mechanical level, and the black Rail Climbing Systems remain where they were last week installing the skin at level 37, 36 and 36 for the east, north and west ones, respectively.

After my Flickr "time-lapse" album addition, views from the south, on Dundonald east of Yonge, then from Yonge Street around there. More shots of the crane and attachment points, then the view from in front of Holt Renfrew including a view of work at the first mechanical level, from Bloor west of Yonge. Shots from Cumberland, east of Bay, next the view from Bloor at Bedford, where 1 Bloor W almost now obscures 1 Bloor E, and finally from down Devonshire.

One Bloor West (The One) "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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