Toronto Pinnacle One Yonge | 351.85m | 106s | Pinnacle | Hariri Pontarini

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Anyone have guesses for when it tops, or what height its at right now? Also curious, why don't they angle the crane upwards at this site? Sites with comprable heights have the crane angled when its not being operated.
 
JHu8 said:
Anyone have guesses for when it tops, or what height its at right now? Also curious, why don't they angle the crane upwards at this site? Sites with comprable heights have the crane angled when its not being operated.
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It’s pushing 200m I’d say a solid 190~200m as prestige is 217m and they’re looking pretty close. Anyhow for when it’s topping out, I’m no professional but based off what more educated folks here said, it’ll top out sometime between July~September or as late as December. But definitely sometime this year (if it goes smoothly)

To back my claim on the height, he’s a comparison using skyscraperpage on how I see the two right now
(Correct me if I’m wrong)
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The red line shows where I believe it’s at right now
 
enriquetoronto1 said:
Anyone has any idea on the timeline of topping off?
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@OpenClosed has an idea as to when this might top off:

OpenClosed said:
It’s pushing 200m I’d say a solid 190~200m as prestige is 217m and they’re looking pretty close. Anyhow for when it’s topping out, I’m no professional but based off what more educated folks here said, it’ll top out sometime between July~September or as late as December. But definitely sometime this year (if it goes smoothly)

To back my claim on the height, he’s a comparison using skyscraperpage on how I see the two right now
(Correct me if I’m wrong)
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The red line shows where I believe it’s at right now
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Here are a few photos I took of Pinnacle One Yonge yesterday afternoon:
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Tim Hortons has recently opened, as evidenced by the open door and balloons inside:
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@mburrrrr here are the crane pieces that you mentioned arrived on site on Tuesday:
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What's going on with the central units on the east elevation? The V-shape at the very centre is meant to be balconies for the Residence 12 units (flanked by the small balconies for Residence 11 and 1 units). But it appears that the V is being built out to the edge of the concrete: in other words, there's no balcony. Compare the eastern elevation with the western elevation.
 
No doubt this won't be received well here, but from a design perspective, as much as I try, none of the towers in this development strike me as particularly inspiring. Sure 'Sky Tower' is a supertall, but should that ever be our threshold for granting banality a free pass? If this were built to only half or even two-thirds its final height, I wonder how many would be singing its praises? By contrast, if that same argument were applied to 'The One'' or 'Forma', they'd be shorter, yes, but they'd still be visually interesting buildings, IMO. Isn't it about time we got beyond our adolescent height fetish and come to realize that it's not how tall a city's skyline is that matters, but rather the overall design quality of its buildings?
 
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