Johnny Au
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Confederation may have happened on 1867, but Canada became fully independent (aside from still recognizing Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom as Canada's head of state) in 1982. Let's make the building 1982m instead!
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ciceror
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True, but as a monarchist I must say that Canada's monarchy and the throne of Canada is 100% legally separate from the UK's monarchy, it just so happens that the 2 very separate offices are held by the same individual, so there is no "aside from" that exists. In theory we could change our succession laws and crown anyone King or QueenConfederation may have happened on 1867, but Canada became fully independent (aside from still recognizing Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom as Canada's head of state) in 1982. Let's make the building 1982m instead!
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Johnny Au
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Thanks for the clarification. The Queen of the United Kingdom and the Queen of Canada are indeed legally two different positions that happen to be held by the same individual.
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A fun little read for those interested in the above: https://www.amazon.ca/Higher-Historic-Race-Making-City/dp/0767912683The secret spire story of the Chrysler Building is a NYC legend... the185 foot spire was built inside the building and then raised from within the core, “like a butterflyfrom its cocoon.”*
* ^ think the quote may be from the architect William Van Alen
Mind you it held the world's tallest crown for less than a year before ESB blew past it by 200 feet. Most astonishing is ESB's construction in just 11 months (not sure if that included shovelling the dirt for foundations ;-).
cc46
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Some photos Jan 8th, cold and crisp but not much snow. Yesterday was mild, even saw 4 kayakers on the harbour. Seems like just a few years (maybe 10 years) ago the bay would freeze over and there would be skaters and ice sailors out. Not this year, not yet.
Anyway, pics from today,
Anyway, pics from today,
skycandy
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Creating more space...
3Dementia
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@ skycandy - sweet as always, particularly the balcony pours in your 2nd shot, which remind us what a shapely little fella this actually is...
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ciceror
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I didn't know they were doing demolition work
Undead
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Forget the tower. Is that a Soviet motorcycle??
TheKingEast
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Pinnacled.
daptive
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Odd that the last shot in that set has rounded balconies that match the renders.@ skycandy - sweet as always, particularly the balcony pours in your 2nd shot, which remind us what a shapely little fella this actually is...
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UtakataNoAnnex
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I think it's something to do that organic sweeping windowed opening lobby in the corner in the render may not be possible with all that cinder block construction in the way. To be fair though, from that angle right now of the pictured was shot in question, it's difficult to see what is going on...as it appears there's still piece of the wall (part of the original TorStar printing house?) they're pulling down that is blocking that view currently. So I don't know what is actually going on there as far as the rendering matching is concerned... >.<
Jeff Morgan
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Serious digging taking place today.
Strange Advance
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I don't know about the Soviets, but the Nazis were always driving around on those.
ciceror
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That does look like a German Zündapp KS 750 but it's hard to tell the difference between that and the Soivet made IMZ-Ural from a photo where it's been restored and symbols of hate have been removed
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