Search results

Dear diary: I met my skyscraper love of my life. It's name is 55 Yonge. Send every other middling architect in Toronto that image and tell them to dreammmmm

Comparing renderings, it seems to me that the solid walls (ie. not perforated by windows) were a design-requirement. I've noticed a similar trend in the new courthouses in the US. I presume this is because courtrooms are stacked against the exterior walls. Confounding if that's the case, because...

It's the most exclusive club in Toronto, as I understand it. It has an entrance inside the adjacent office tower and you'll see stately old men wearing club jackets enter/exit occasionally. Here's a new pic from above, notice the club's nice rooftop patio, though I've never once seen it used!

The progress on this building is so well covered on this forum. Here's another view:

Looks shorter than it is, from this vantage point.

I see the rendering was removed, but going through Icon Architects' portfolio of past projects, I've lost any hope I had for this project. What a sad few years for College Street.

Here's a different view. There used to be tiny gardens on the top floors that've been effectively filled in. I've been watching these reno's with only middling interest as I can also the CIBC tower going up from my office, but happy to post more shots if there's any demand.

I see this beauty rising every day. Never seen something so large go up so fast.

View from my new office: On a related note, I was reflecting the other day on the fact that 50% of the reason I'm in the industry I work in (finance) is because I pored over the directories of the bay street beauts as a teenager and saw finance companies made up most of the tenants.