egotrippin
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I always thought the boot looked stupid and I'm stickin' to my guns. The tower has a far more refined and elegant look with that giant tumor shoe lopped off. Deep down you all know it's true.
I always thought the boot looked stupid and I'm stickin' to my guns. The tower has a far more refined and elegant look with that giant tumor shoe lopped off. Deep down you all know it's true.
Dugmor
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Speak for yourself.
yyzer
Senior Member
Ah...no...
MetroMan
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I tend to agree that the boot was misplaced. It hid the O'Keefe Centre's roofline and literally looked like a foot stomping on the Centre.
That said, I don't like what was done to remove the boot. They should have kept the sloping curve at the bottom, leading to a small entry podium rather than the abrupt ending with no podium at all.
That said, I don't like what was done to remove the boot. They should have kept the sloping curve at the bottom, leading to a small entry podium rather than the abrupt ending with no podium at all.
adma
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yyzer
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from Canadian Consulting Engineer, every current article on this project seems to list it at 58 storeys.....
Star architect strikes again in Toronto
A sculpted 58-storey "L Tower" is being added above the Sony Centre for Performing Arts in the heart of downtown Toronto on the southeast corner of Yonge and Front Streets near the St. Lawrence Market. Ground was broken on the $270-million project in late October.
For decades known as the O'Keefe Centre, the 50-year old modernist building was the former home of the National Ballet of Canada. It later became the Hummingbird Centre, then the Sony Centre.
Famed New York architect Daniel Libeskind has designed the L Tower, which is named after him and the shape of the building. (Libeskind is also the architect of the extraordinary Crystal addition to the Royal Ontario Museum building uptown.)
Other companies on the design team include Page & Steele (architect), Jablonsky & Ast (structural), Smith & Andersen (mechanical and electrical), R.J. Burnside (civil) , IBI group (transportation), GME (wind), ERA (historical), Soberman Engineering (elevators). Vanbots construction is overseeing the project.
Partly because the modernist building is designated as architecturally significant, the renovation project has taken years to get off the ground, involving 27 public meetings and requiring complex financing between the city and developers Castlepoint, Fernbrook and Cityzen.
http://www.ccemag.com/issues/ISArticle.asp?aid=1000347310
Star architect strikes again in Toronto
A sculpted 58-storey "L Tower" is being added above the Sony Centre for Performing Arts in the heart of downtown Toronto on the southeast corner of Yonge and Front Streets near the St. Lawrence Market. Ground was broken on the $270-million project in late October.
For decades known as the O'Keefe Centre, the 50-year old modernist building was the former home of the National Ballet of Canada. It later became the Hummingbird Centre, then the Sony Centre.
Famed New York architect Daniel Libeskind has designed the L Tower, which is named after him and the shape of the building. (Libeskind is also the architect of the extraordinary Crystal addition to the Royal Ontario Museum building uptown.)
Other companies on the design team include Page & Steele (architect), Jablonsky & Ast (structural), Smith & Andersen (mechanical and electrical), R.J. Burnside (civil) , IBI group (transportation), GME (wind), ERA (historical), Soberman Engineering (elevators). Vanbots construction is overseeing the project.
Partly because the modernist building is designated as architecturally significant, the renovation project has taken years to get off the ground, involving 27 public meetings and requiring complex financing between the city and developers Castlepoint, Fernbrook and Cityzen.
http://www.ccemag.com/issues/ISArticle.asp?aid=1000347310
whatever
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Has anything actually happened on site since they "broke ground"?
Torontovibe
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Not that I can see. I've seen guys on the roof doing something but nothing on the ground.
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That's the roof of the Sony Centre, of course
L-Tower has no roof!They are taking off some of the cladding at the back end (SE corner last time I looked) of the Sony and have been working there and on roof for a while now.
khris
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Well, part of the SE corner needs to go away before construction would start I'd think.
Automation Gallery
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Indeed......Walked by the other day and wondered where they would even start, not much room there to build unless half of this centre is coming down.
khris
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The SW corner needs to be removed as well for the entrance area of the building. I guess they're going to remove the old parts, and then re-incorporate them into the new building upon construction. Unless the Sony Centre is going to be smaller in size, as everything would have to be pushed north.
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Most, maybe all, of the back-side of the Sony certainly does need to be removed before the new L Tower can be grafted onto it and that's presumably what's (finally) going on now. The public areas inside the Sony will not shrink - they will be restored - but I think the backstage and administrative areas will be reconfigured so they fit into the new building.
Conrad Black
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How does one clean the windows on a building that has no roof?
Dolemite
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much like the gherkin (swiss re) in London by Fosters, there will probably be a mechanical floor near the top with retractable cleaning equipment. Fun job for the adventurous....