Toronto KING Toronto | 57.6m | 16s | Westbank | Bjarke Ingels Group

[LUVIT!]

I hereby name the peaks! Mount Seymour/Grouse Mountain/Cypress bowl/ + Blue Mountain (The shortest) I'm from Vancouver hence the names. ;-)

 

[AHK]

Monday, March 31 Update. Second floor cladding and glazing installation continuing on the south-east corner of the building. Also work going on at the King Street heritage facade, and some cladding sections staged on the Third floor of the King Street facade.

 

[AHK]

Thursday, April 3 - cladding and glazing installation work going on both front and back of the King Toronto building. First, on the King Street facade, new sections being installed on the north-east corner, with the spyder crane back in action. Then pre-installation set-up work being done in the rear facade, south east corner. Finally, some newly delivered sections staged in the south-west corner of the property, waiting on installation.

 

[Collingwoodbuildinglover]

It'll be cool when the cantilever boxes and that stuff start getting cladded building already books epic and this is just the last icing on the cake and this is just the last icing on the cake

 

[nightstreak]

Thursday, April 3 - cladding and glazing installation work going on both front and back of the King Toronto building. First, on the King Street facade, new sections being installed on the north-east corner, with the spyder crane back in action. Then pre-installation set-up work being done in the rear facade, south east corner. Finally, some newly delivered sections staged in the south-west corner of the property, waiting on installation.

I spotted an unfortunate issue with this building. I passed by on the King Street side over the weekend, it must've been around 5pm complete daylight out and it was dark as heck under there. Like nearly pitch black. They're going to have to have lighting on through much of the morning and afternoon in some of these interior courtyards. You can sort of see it in @AHK 's last photo but it was even darker than that. It'll be worse still once the plants cover more of the structure and add even more shade.

 

[unrealestate]

I spotted an unfortunate issue with this building. I passed by on the King Street side over the weekend, it must've been around 5pm complete daylight out and it was dark as heck under there. Like nearly pitch black. They're going to have to have lighting on through much of the morning and afternoon in some of these interior courtyards. You can sort of see it in @AHK 's last photo but it was even darker than that. It'll be worse still once the plants cover more of the structure and add even more shade.

i don't think it will actually be that dark in there, it's just looking into a shaded area while it's bright out. our eyes have a contrast limit

 

[interchange42]

I spotted an unfortunate issue with this building. I passed by on the King Street side over the weekend, it must've been around 5pm complete daylight out and it was dark as heck under there. Like nearly pitch black. They're going to have to have lighting on through much of the morning and afternoon in some of these interior courtyards. You can sort of see it in @AHK 's last photo but it was even darker than that. It'll be worse still once the plants cover more of the structure and add even more shade.

i don't think it will actually be that dark in there, it's just looking into a shaded area while it's bright out. our eyes have a contrast limit

The bigger deal currently is that there is very little cladding applied. Right now, the light is passing unreflected, into the spaces between each floor of the building. Once there is cladding, and remember, this building is 90% glass and 10% reflective silver panelling, it will bounce around a lot more, more than offsetting anything lost to plants here and there.

This happens on EVERY building. When I process photos for things like the Daily Photo and some stories, I am usually having to compensate for the shadows on unclad buildings, increasing light in those areas just so you can seen some detail. By the time the building is clad, those issues disappear.

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[rdaner]

Taken 8 April.

 

[AHK]

Some photos of the cladding and glazing installation work along the King Street facade yesterday (Monday, April 7).

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

It will may be a toss up between this and One Delisle as to which will bring in the most here...

 

[after-dark]

progress seems slow - since december theres been 0.5 more floor of cladding installed

 

[AHK]

progress seems slow - since december theres been 0.5 more floor of cladding installed

Yes - definitely a slow process up to this point - but not quite that bad. The first level was basically complete by the end of December, and then virtually nothing done from the start of January through mid-February. Post 2151, February 18, shows the start of second floor cladding installation. Since then, virtually all the second floor cladding and glazing has been completed. My understanding is that the issue has been more to do with the rate of arrival of the cladding / glazing sections from the supplier than with the speed of the installation activities.

First and second floors have involved a lot of large, heavy custom sized panels. Hopefully once the residential levels are reached with their more standardized, smaller cladding section wall configurations the fabricator will be able to increase their throughput.

Meanwhile some work in progress photos from yesterday (Wednesday, April 9) and this morning's activities. One from this morning (last photo below) shows a flat bed truck with just arrived cladding sections on it.

 

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[AHK]

Thursday, April 10.

Update on the cladding delivery received this morning - a large number cladding sections are now stored behind the building waiting on installation, shown below. The first photos are of work being done to prepare for cladding in the west courtyard entrance, additional glazing installed in the east side heritage wall of the King Toronto building, and more cladding installation work.