Toronto Eight Cumberland | 170m | 51s | Great Gulf | a—A

[Johnny Au]

January 9, 2023:

January 11, 2023:

January 18, 2023:

 

[Benito]

Derrick being installed now.

 

[Bayer]

Another angle.

 

[BloorMan]

From this morning

 

[Benito]

Today.

 

[thaivic]

 

[Rascacielo]

Today

 

[Johnny Au]

January 25, 2023:

 

[Deadpool X]

Today

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This part of downtown in particular has become a lot taller in the last few years. 2 Bloor West, which is almost 150 m tall, used to be much more prominent. Now I can count at least 10 buildings in this shot that are taller than it.

 

[telefann]

January 25, 2023:

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A decent enough design in and of itself with clean lines and minimal/tasteful use of back-painted grey spandrel. However, entirely unworthy of Yorkville and the top-flight finesse/sophistication such an upscale corner of the city demands.

 

[Rascacielo]

If you squint, you can see The One rising between 1 Bloor East and the W Hotel in the first (panoramic) picture. It's going to be a game changer for the Bloor-Yorkville skyline for sure, but I guess from this perspective (Chester Hill Lookout) most of its bulk will be obscured by 1 Bloor East.

 

[Lenser]

This feels like a perfunctory, almost absent-minded design. Cleanly executed, decent enough detailing - though refraining from exuding cheapness, it remains staid and unimaginative. It simply exists, without any kind of grace-saving personality.

 

[Koops65]

Tall filler...

 

[Northern Light]

Just 2 pics taken February 6th, 2023:

 

[maestro]

It's a window wall box. There's a level of sophistication to it that can be easily missed. Each panel, spandrel or glass, narrow or wide has a complimentary mirrored panel. The east/west window wall arrangement are perfectly symmetrical. This may not be as thrilling as the personality next to it. It's still a nice reprieve to see a Miesian level response put into a undistinguished grey window wall box. Toronto has a lot of personas in the skyline but, they tend to brutishly engineered around the most productive interior plan.