Toronto Bay Adelaide Centre | 217.92m | 51s | Brookfield | KPMB

They were doing a major pour last night for the tower core. Trucks were line up on both streets.
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Nope.
 
Kai55 said:
Oh never mind. I just found a bunch. Pwc, Mars, etc.
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BA was the first since the 80's over 40's and this will be the 2nd one.

The rest are 30 floors or less.

This decade has seen more mid/highrise office towers since the 80's.
 
Softee said:
RBC Centre is over 40 storeys, too.
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Was it built after 88 or was it under construction at the time as I am not sure on a few ones, considering I wasn't follow building then. The original BA Tower was under way when it stop due to the rescission late 80's.
 
kris said:
hes talking about RBC center not royal bank plaza

rbc center is 43 floors completed in 2009 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RBC_Centre
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Forgot about that one and that bad, considering I was shooting it from day one. There maybe a few others, but none jump out at me at this time.

Even still, it took to the 2000's before tall towers started to get built.
 
Forgive my ignorance, but what's a “tower core”? I haven't been keeping closely abreast of this one, and recently I walked past and was astonished to find the structure being way more developed than I'd expected by this time, as well as looking incredibly bizarre since it looks like a concrete bunker that occupies way less space than the building will, as shown in the rendering. Was there a pre-made foundation here to begin with, which would explain how they got to this state so quickly? And why is a chunk of concrete going up instead of a glass building?
 
arvelomcquaig said:
Forgive my ignorance, but what's a “tower core”? I haven't been keeping closely abreast of this one, and recently I walked past and was astonished to find the structure being way more developed than I'd expected by this time, as well as looking incredibly bizarre since it looks like a concrete bunker that occupies way less space than the building will, as shown in the rendering. Was there a pre-made foundation here to begin with, which would explain how they got to this state so quickly? And why is a chunk of concrete going up instead of a glass building?
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The core contains the elevator shafts etc.
 
Was there a pre-made foundation here to begin with, which would explain how they got to this state so quickly?
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The parking garage below was built in the 1980's for the initial version of Bay Adelaide. Explains why little excavation was required.
 
Nice to see a new "stump" appearing. This site has sure seen a lot of plans, changes and redesigns over the decades.
 
arvelomcquaig said:
Forgive my ignorance, but what's a “tower core”? I haven't been keeping closely abreast of this one, and recently I walked past and was astonished to find the structure being way more developed than I'd expected by this time, as well as looking incredibly bizarre since it looks like a concrete bunker that occupies way less space than the building will, as shown in the rendering. Was there a pre-made foundation here to begin with, which would explain how they got to this state so quickly? And why is a chunk of concrete going up instead of a glass building?
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This should sort of explain visually:

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