Toronto HighPark Condominiums | ?m | 14s | Daniels | Diamond Schmitt

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26 July 2014:

Here comes the--big surprise it's grey sprandrel--window wall:

As we learned at Peter Street Condos, they stick foam insulation onto those metal hooks with the brick coming last.

 

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9 August 2014:

 

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16 August 2014

 

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New front page story here.

 

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20 August 2014: I'll tell you what's going on here: glasroc & roll is what's up. It's got window wall stacked on the lower floors waiting to be installed. It's got plumb lines going for the loo. It's got aluminum studs going in. It's got the construction elevator installed. It's got dozens of workers putting on boots, grabbing tools and safety harnesses, carrying the biggest damn "lunch buckets" you never saw in Dallas, drinking dark roast timmies by the cement bucketful, an army of hardhats speaking a dozen languages, some arriving by the TTC and some by car--many carpoolers--and even several on foot and on those trendy bicycles--all before 7am. It's getting higher park:

 

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cement bucketful

*concrete

 

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^I've got concrete proof that window wall is rising over the heads of all local dog walkers--it's the cement that makes us work.

What we're putting in our doggie bags:

Where's the glazing?

(Hiding behind a tree perhaps?)

 

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23 August 2014: Check out your future plumbing and electrical connections:

Then walk across Bloor and look up

Zoom in closer

And closer

Then step into High Park and wonder at all the trees, birds and sandpits your materialistic lifestyle has destroyed

 

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30 August 2014: What's been going on here this past week?

1) Many gallons of timmies dark roast have been consumed

2) Many cigarettes have been inhaled--dare I tell you condos are sustainable?

3)OT on the weekends for the plumbing/hvac/electrical trades?

4)Like clockwork at 6:30am every morning zero emission trucks show up with loads of window wall frames, aluminum studs, plumbing pipes etc. Some of them are giant trucks with literally 10 dinky pipes on their flatbed--efficiency rocks eh? And they never sit there idling do they? The squirrels sure love their company.

5)Old and young, in dress shirts and construction gear, team high park shows up to gossip around cars, trailers and trees. They greet the traffic guard like he's the boss. They look weary but ready to soar.

6)Nothing happens until the real boss gets in his cab--yes sir that's the crane operator(s)

7)bang bang bang scream scream scream spark spark spark the curse of the shift begins

8)Getting Higher Park--which gate will let you in to the secrets of the trades?

 

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This looks terrible. Though it's pretty much par for the course for Daniels, I would have expected more from DSAI.

 

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Oct. 11:

 

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Today it bores me.

 

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Kinda looks like an L tower from here

With the 10,000+ ppl living in the 'hood, I think a Rabba + Aroma might be the retail here

 

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New front page story here from a site visit with lots of new details on the building.

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[Benito]

Lovely views over High Park.