A Penthouse by definition is on the top floor, or at least the top residential floor. Pinnacle reportedly wants $30M for the full floor on 105. How could anyone justify that kind of money when "the riffraff" will be stomping on your head above on 106 - no insulation completely deadens the thudding of movement or heels on hardwood, assuming there will be any special sound dampening materials used at all. It matters little if it's for a restaurant or an amenity space. The exclusivity of the unit will be completely lost. I suspect that if they go ahead with this plan the Penthouse will end up being split into several units, as it was in Aura when they could find no buyer for the full floor.
 
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A Penthouse by definition is on the top floor, or at least the top residential floor. Pinnacle reportedly wants $30M for the full floor on 105. How could anyone justify that kind of money when "the riffraff" will be stomping on your head above on 106 - no insulation completely deadens the thudding of movement or heels on hardwood, assuming there will be any special sound dampening materials used at all. It matters little if it's for a restaurant or an amenity space. The exclusivity of the unit will be completely lost. I suspect that if they go ahead with this plan the Penthouse will end up being split into several units, as it was in Aura when they could find no buyer for the full floor.
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That's an astute point. Actually, when the height was increased to 106 storeys, the 105th floor was initially divided into two units, both of which had pop-up second storeys into the 106th floor. Those pop-up areas would have shared the space with the observation area. This latest announcement reduced the 105th-floor to a single unit without the pop-up second floor. I guess the observation area has bitten the dust. It' all seems very back-of-the-napkin planning to me.
 
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What was that Alfred Hitchcock movie The Birds about? Is this building too tall?
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NIL OMNI said:
A Penthouse by definition is on the top floor, or at least the top residential floor. Pinnacle reportedly wants $30M for the full floor on 105. How could anyone justify that kind of money when "the riffraff" will be stomping on your head above on 106 - no insulation completely deadens the thudding of movement or heels on hardwood, assuming there will be any special sound dampening materials used at all. It matters little if it's for a restaurant or an amenity space. The exclusivity of the unit will be completely lost. I suspect that if they go ahead with this plan the Penthouse will end up being split into several units, as it was in Aura when they could find no buyer for the full floor.
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I don't believe that's true. Both the Lightbox and the Four Seasons Centre are totally silent inside despite both being beside streetcar lines and the latter also having a subway run past it. The trick is spending enough to acoustically separate the spaces, typically through the floors being carried on giant rubber pucks. Anyone spending $30M on the penthouse is going to demand silence from above in a sales contract, and if they don't, it's their own fault.

Anyway, a 106th floor restaurant is not going to fill up with stomping riffraff unless they do everything wrong.

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interchange42 said:
Anyway, a 106th floor restaurant is not going to fill up with stomping riffraff unless they do everything wrong.

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I enjoyed that last bit; made me picture a 106th floor McDs with the after clubbing kids at 3am on a Friday as patrons.....
 
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Towered said:
The idea of a restaurant on the 106th floor here is hot. I wonder if they'll let me in?
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They haven't said what their dress code will be, but I suspect it'll be dress tights only!

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For those who are older, instead of the Energy 108 Dance Club, imagine a club on that floor.

**broadcasting voice** P... P... P... Pinnacle 106. All the club hits all the time. We'll send you into... the stratosphere!
 
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GameOnBrad said:
For those who are older, instead of the Energy 108 Dance Club, imagine a club on that floor.

**broadcssting voice** P... P... P... Pinnacle 106. All the club hits all the time. We'll send you into... the stratosphere!
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At least one of the incarnations of the space that's currently AP Restaurant, previously The One Eighty, and before that I can't remember, up top the Manulife Centre building, was a bar/club. Worked for a while, anyway, and the right people could make that work again. Aera seems to be working... but as a restaurant, not a club. Is Kōst successful? There are others. I'm outta date on most rooftop resto/bars in town...

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