Recent content by interchange42

TMU's primary colour is pretty close to the IKEA blue. It appears here and there across the campus, this isn't the first place. (Not to say that I find there to be anything redeeming about this plan, don't mistake my defence of blue or my posting of the images as an endorsement.) 42

Arcadis has announced that they are the architects, and have released more renderings. I'm including the new ones plus some close-ups here, will pop them into the DB file shortly: 42

The thread you want for that is this linked one. 42

I'm with you to this extent: if Pinnacle would not guarantee silence from above in a purchase agreement, then I think it highly unlikely one would ever be signed for a full 105h-floor suite at $30M. If they are serious about selling the 105th for $30M though, surely they can acoustically...

Is this going to be built with Expo-quality materials where they only expect the building to last one season? …because surely this is not the end goal for this site. Wait a little longer for an MTSA/PMTSA to be enacted here, and then make a serious proposal. 42

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...

I'd rather see the brick colour differ a little more from its Ace neighbour — the two buildings should complement each other, not blend into one. 42

They haven't said what their dress code will be, but I suspect it'll be dress tights only! 42

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...

Was killed because it was going to need parking spaces from the existing parking lot (before the City's parking minimums were axed) and the retailers in the mall were not interested in giving up any spaces at all to the new tower, which their contracts with CadFair guarantee). 42

It was part of their press release coinciding with the visit to the 100th level. 42

It will be interesting to see how it's handled. During low-volume hours (outside of commuting periods) it won't likely be noticeable, but only dinner and to some extent lunch are likely to place any noticeable demand on the service, so maybe commutes back up to the suite will take longer while...

Well, what's the last time Main and Main built a 41-storey tower? Oh, never? Here's hoping they sell this property to a developer willing to pay for a better design for this site. 42

Yup, it actually was renovated several years ago now, early on in the process... FGMDA (now known as EVOQ Architecture) got an extra inch or two of headroom out of the relatively low space available, and installed the shallowest lighting fixtures they could so as to not take away from that...

@NL That ratio isn't too bad if they install high speed motors for those elevators... but it would quickly get unacceptable when one (or more is down or reserved for move-ins/move-outs. What's weirder though are the quite deep podium-level units, not just what would have to be tortuously small...