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The Austrian Social Club Lived briefly on Henry St. behind this building in the early 70s and it was an Austrian Social Club. Guess they had a bar but never went in. Grossman's was just down the street.

I recall a Canadian flag pasted to the north side of the bubble for a while and then removed leaving the glue, or whatever it was, behind. Then there was the giant flag unfurled on Canada Day years ago. The flag's creators claimed it was indestructable. It lasted about 6 hours at that height...

Note the condition of the tower itself in that 70s shot compared to today. What a mess the concrete is now - mottled, patched, blotchy. Any view of the tower from less than a kilometer reveals what an eyesore the tower has become. EnWave refinished their smokestack on Bay at Elm St. and it looks...

Anyone know if this is a steel frame building like BAC or the usual poured concrete?

Yonge-Dundas Square has no natural draw. For the millions spent on it it does not attract people on its own merits. Except in summer when the fountains are flowing (the best element in the square) why would anyone want to hang at YD Square? Sure, when there's something going on its a terrific...

Dundas Square Bustling Dundas Square? Hardly. Except for concerts and events the place is dead. A scatter of chairs in warm weather brings some people to sit in surreal isolation. For CITY-TV it is a great location with clear sightlines to the crowds on Yonge Street's sidewalks and the...

Just to the east of the HQ site are 3 or 4 addresses that have been empty and now derelict for more than a year. I thought they were to be part of the HQ project, but no, that's being shoehorned into the narrow lot to the west. So wonder what's planned - or cancelled - for the other site? The...

The east Queen West is far from dead other than as a nostalgic point of view. Sure, it's a very different street scene from the machine shops and diners of the 60s. The street is very much alive with originals such as The Rex, Queen Mother and Pages to the east, and then the 'boulevard' portion...

They dig every Saturday too, including today. Check out their web cam at http://www.livingshangri-latoronto.com/webcam/ Counting flights of stairs in the excavation I get 15 flights at, what? ten feet a flight, so they're down about 150 feet. This has to be pretty close to the deepest, if not...

deeper and deeper The excavation is down at least 100 feet at the south end. This is a serious hole in the ground. And they're still digging.

and it's getting bigger This is a 'really big hole' that's getting bigger/deeper every week. Thought they had excavated to the base level on the south side last week but walking by today I see they're jackhammering another level lower. This must be one of the deepest excavations ever in the...

I was by the site on Saturday and as usual there were a couple of jackhammers at work breaking up the slate. The site is so deep that they're into some pretty tough rock. Looks like quality slate from a distance - would make great patio stone. Looks like the south end is down to base but now...

Wall of condos The original planning blunder on the waterfront was the stretch in the centre of the city from York to Yonge St. Harbourside condos and the Harbour Castle are a wall of cement if ever there was one. Take a walk along Queens Quay in that stretch and I think that will explain what...

Shangri-La digs Walked by on Saturday and as usual the small crew was onsite jack-hammering what looks like slate to reach the final depth. The site usually has a Saturday crew breaking up rock about 50 meters down in preparation for a week of removing the broken rock. Think this is 8 levels of...

Fitting right in BA fitting in well from this angle.

Thanks Chuck. I wasn't questioning quality but looking for info on the odd looking concrete mix. You've answered my question.

Curious about concrete Is Trump building a house on sand? Just asking. Enjoy the forum and realize technical details aren't the focus, but this was a major construction event and thought there may be an expert to explain the concrete mix.

Major Pour Seeing cement trucks on a Sunday morning I had to check it out. The intersection of Bay & Adelaide was partially closed and there were about a dozen trucks lined up to feed two Pumpcrete machines feeding concrete into the foundation rebar. The cement looked like a dry sandy mix, not...