evandyk
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Were you looking at it from the south? And it would be on the inside of the girder if they photographed it while up there.
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Rascacielo
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Yes, from the southeast. And you’re right, the mark is probably on the inside, although I wonder why they didn’t put it on the outside as well, so that everyone (with a zoom lens) can see it.
steveve
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Views from the top! Taken today:
Milaisacat
New Member
Neat that they are including a time capsule. I wonder what's inside?
Sourced from the standalone article.
Sourced from the standalone article.
UtakataNoAnnex
Senior Member
So the the slow-out-the-gate turtle of One Bloor West finally beat out the sprinting rabbit of Pinnacle One in the race to the 300 mark...folks will be glad I wasn't taking bets on this. <3
ando
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You can see this popping up out of the tree line all the way at the intersection of St Clair and Vaughan. Love it
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Johnny Au
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It is very unfortunate that the opportunity for One Bloor West to have a publicly accessible observation deck so Toronto can have its own version of New York City's Top of the Rock attraction has been wasted. Tridel could have generated revenue from the attraction.
jer1961
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A big moment for Toronto architecture for sure! And here are some photos I took today of something I had never seen here in the 55 years since I took my first photos of Toronto's skyline - a supertall building! Of course, that term didn't exist until recent decades and back then the threshold to look at was 1,000 ft., not 300 m. Which will be the next milestone, btw...
I had an intuition this building would be special, beyond its milestone height, so I resolved to document its rise, and have created a running picture show of it as it first rose above the sidewalks in 2020. Part of my sorta love letter to Toronto, in photographs.
With the loss of both the Ontario Science Centre and Ontario Place, two glorious examples of late 60s and early 70s architecture, let's encourage all to celebrate and commemorate our architectural gems. I think this is turning into one.
Photos taken today, Tuesday, I believe the pieces were placed on Monday. A blazing day, was 34 degrees, probably 42 with the humidex as I took these. Shots from Dundas and Sorauren, Dundas and Sterling, from around Bloor and Symington and from Bloor and Perth over the sidewalk. The new beams are kinda lost in the sky in some shots as they are of a lighter colour than the beams below, but are very obvious in a few shots, especially the first one, to the immediate left of the crane.
I had an intuition this building would be special, beyond its milestone height, so I resolved to document its rise, and have created a running picture show of it as it first rose above the sidewalks in 2020. Part of my sorta love letter to Toronto, in photographs.
With the loss of both the Ontario Science Centre and Ontario Place, two glorious examples of late 60s and early 70s architecture, let's encourage all to celebrate and commemorate our architectural gems. I think this is turning into one.
Photos taken today, Tuesday, I believe the pieces were placed on Monday. A blazing day, was 34 degrees, probably 42 with the humidex as I took these. Shots from Dundas and Sorauren, Dundas and Sterling, from around Bloor and Symington and from Bloor and Perth over the sidewalk. The new beams are kinda lost in the sky in some shots as they are of a lighter colour than the beams below, but are very obvious in a few shots, especially the first one, to the immediate left of the crane.
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innsertnamehere
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Builder: 1st Do No Harm
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At last it's looking a head taller than its neighbour across the street. Nice snap.
Builder: 1st Do No Harm
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I agree, SkyH. Not sure we should consider its height above the shoreline at Halifax harbour!No fair that's cheating!!
That's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
Natika33
Active Member
Hear hear!
daptive
Senior Member
Views from the top! Taken today:
Huh, I guess some developers do care about ‘supertall’ status. Didn’t expect commemorative marking on the girders and definitely not the banner and worker gathering in the Not-Apple store.
The elevators are already set up, all through the building, to service only residential suites above the hotel. There's just no way to simply squeeze another elevator shaft in (and likely more than one would be needed) after-the-fact, and no way to redo the elevator lobbies to separate the access areas for an observation deck from the resident lobbies. All of that was cast in concrete long ago. Not that an observation deck would have been bad here, it would have been great!
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Johnny Au
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How unfortunate.
By the way, here's a photo from June 22, 2025 taken from Davenport and Berryman: