DarkSideDenizen
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Beautiful day.
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Johnny Au
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March 4, 2026:
Walter Saunders Memorial Park:
It's directly behind First Canadian Place.
Walter Saunders Memorial Park:
It's directly behind First Canadian Place.
DarwinP
Active Member
It Looks so cool, so sad we’re about to see them ruin the top with that exposed mass damper/ mechanical box. Let’s hope for a miracle and they cover it last minute.
Cyrobyte
New Member
I don't understand why they don't want to. I don't know how much money they are saving by cheaping out but I would think that it is less than 0.2% of the total cost of this one building but it makes a big difference so it doesn't make sense to me. I could be totally off in that estimate though
kotsy
Senior Member
I still have a hard time believing they won't put glass around at least part of the top when they did for The Prestige (Phase 1).
mburrrrr
Senior Member
My bet is on the Mass Damper and room was bigger than planned due to the height increases while the Building Maintenance Unit still needs to clear the glass wall. I guess they could have added a whole new floor for the BMU clearance or they could ask the LTower construction team how to fix this? Nothing money can’t fix.
Maybe clean the windows from ropes?
Maybe clean the windows from ropes?
bgobgo
Active Member
Agreed. The renderings on Hariri Pontarini Architects website, including recent ones like the one below with the future phases shown, has glass blocking the tuned mass damper.
Source: https://www.hariripontarini.com/projects/one-yonge
DarwinP
Active Member
You can also see on these elevation renders how pristige’s mechanical box is semi covered by glass like it did in real life. If they rendered that accurately why would the sky tower render here be inaccurate ?
daptive
Senior Member
Not to be pedantic but I’m pretty sure this render actually shows the TMD will be exposed but it won’t be as obvious as we think it’ll be. I wish it was fully enclosed with decorative crown and lighting though.
Richtea
Active Member
From a moment ago:
Collingwoodbuildinglover
Senior Member
Yeah I think the elevational drawing has it exaggerated it might stick out by maybe 3 m which given the grand scale of this entire project will seem like nothing
prtk.g
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AlbertC
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Viewed from Christie Pits
skycandy
Senior Member
Inverted/flipped/rotated/reflectated.
Wonder how Toronto would fare with a Rorschach test today?
Collingwoodbuildinglover
Senior Member
Looks like they are raising the RCS again probably the last jump