Toronto One Bloor West | 308.6m | 85s | Tridel | Foster + Partners

[jer1961]

Photos taken today, Friday (Jan. 9). Another week where there is no visible progress compared to the week before, though one of the Rail Climbing Systems (RCSs) installing the skin has been removed. The RCS of the south face is now gone. (I don't think it climbed like the others, so, strictly speaking, it wasn't an RCS.) As yet, don't see any installed skin on the last section of floors near the top.

Lots of interesting light today, always seeing a new look for the tower depending on what the sky is doing, so a few shots of that!

One Bloor West (The One) "time-lapse"

From October, 2020, as above-ground construction started in earnest at The One (1 Bloor W.) in Toronto. More or less a weekly photo usually taken on a Friday, with some gaps during early-on construction hiatuses. The initial photographs are from 2015, during demolition at the site, 2018, during...

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One Bloor West (The One) construction

Photos of One Bloor West (The One) construction progress, including a "before" shot from 2011 and several from 2015 after the demolition of Stollery's. Notable for becoming Canada's first supertall building, i.e., over 300 metres (985 feet) tall. (The CN Tower does not fall under the definition...

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[Rascacielo]

Mexico is already building a 484 m skyscraper in Monterrey, I think it’s just under halfway up now.

Torre Rise - Wikipedia

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Sorry to digress, but as there was some interest in Torre Rise, here's a couple of pics I took of the 'rising' tower today (I'm in Monterrey). When completed, it's going to be the tallest tower in Latin America, 2nd tallest in North America (presumably after 1WTC) and 13th tallest in the world. Height is 484m per Wikipedia, 475m per info board at the viewing point where I took these pics. The tower is about 55 floors now, final height is 94

 

[Riseth]

January 5, 2026

 

[hawc]

 

[Collingwoodbuildinglover]

Looks like they are going to be finishing up the roof on the TMD penthouse in the next few weeks which makes sense seeing as the RCS are nearly at the top I can see this project starting to look like it can see the finish line exterior wise by the end of March

 

[hawc]

Curious what the height of the last habitable floor is? That' how I count my building heights. I don't count spires, antennas and huge mechanical areas. Like the top 243 metres of the Burj is just empty space.

 

[unrealestate]

 

[Johnny Au]

January 11, 2026:

Slight flurries

 

[AlbertC]

What a time to be alive, One Bloor West visible from the Dufferin Galleria!

 

[thaivic]

 

[felix123]

It certainly would make for a nice flagship store.

Maybe they could advertise it as having 50% less of that dogfood smell that the Eaton and Sherway Apple Stores always have.

 

[ImmenselyMental]

Curious what the height of the last habitable floor is? That' how I count my building heights. I don't count spires, antennas and huge mechanical areas. Like the top 243 metres of the Burj is just empty space.

I think this was brought up some time ago, but the elevator goes up to the top floor at 292.275 metres, with a rooftop terrace for the penthouse units at 295.8 metres:

 

[prtk.g]

 

[hawc]

Huh. So when they were having their big 300 metre party the floor they were on wasn't actually at 300 meters.

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

They where having their 300 meter party because the tower passed 300 meters. It had nothing to do with their last floor height at the time. And for what that's worth.