After spending some time looking over the architectural plans, I have to say I find the renderings a fair bit deceiving. Here's why:
First, they've chosen to render the window wall on the glass without any detail whatsoever (e.g. mullions, spandrel vs. vision panels, etc.) which while I generally find a mark of sloppiness, isn't necessarily uncommon. The problem with doing this, however, is that it gives basically no depth to the window wall and makes it very hard to actually discern where the window wall is located.
In effect, doing so makes this building look like it has near wraparound balconies where the white fritted motif is. But this building doesn't have wraparound balconies at all. The balconies are actually recessed in, and the window wall will not be set back from the edge of the floorplate, it will extend right to the edge.
This means that it will be much more visible than if it was universally set back in a wraparound balcony style. Given that this is G+C, I think we can make a pretty safe guess as to how the window wall will look. Ultimately, it seems like these renderings actually *overestimate* how these buildings will actually turn out...
Here are some floor plans and elevations for reference.
Typical tower floorplan, which shows the recessed balconies:
East elevation, which shows the depth difference very clearly with the shadows:
Zoomed in east elevation, for ease of viewing:
Also, the crown (mechanical penthouse) is rendered as a clear glass box, but it's actually more like 70% spandrel glass:
Additionally, I figured there might be some value in bringing forward this Yonge Street elevation.
