androiduk
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The shoring rig is being dismantled. Full steam ahead with excavation.
Toronto One Bloor East | 257.24m | 76s | Great Gulf | Hariri Pontarini
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caltrane74
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Moving into overdrive I see. Nice.
Automation Gallery
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Yeah, what do you think....9-12 months to get to street-level.
UT had renderings for 1 Bloor when I first joined ten years ago. Cool to see it finally moving forward.
canarob
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I remember the "MANULIFE IS BLOWN AWAY" renderings. Good memories.
dt_toronto_geek
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They've been excavating an equally large site over at U Condos for a year now, don't count on it.
Xray_Crystal_Junkie
Senior Member
I don't have measurements to back this up but I think the U site is considerably larger no? And they've been battling persistent water problems which this site may not encounter.
drum118
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Dec 12
someMidTowner
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Dec 13: cell phone shot
dt_toronto_geek
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To be fair, yes, just judging visually I'd say the U Condo site is larger but I can't see them having the parking levels done at One Bloor 9-12 months from now. Sites that tap into an underground river slow things down, i.e. Radio City, Murano etc.
Automation Gallery
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When i mentioned 9-12 months, i was thinking more in regards to the Hallmark Centre development than U-Condos...with ground-breaking at the end of November 2010, and now at street level.
3Dementia
Senior Member
Couple of images in the Canadian Architect story I hadn't seen including this close-up of how the roof is resolved. Apologies if posted previously.
http://www.canadian-architects.com/fr/projets/detail_thickbox/25908/plang:en-gb
http://www.canadian-architects.com/fr/projets/detail_thickbox/25908/plang:en-gb
Thanks 3D!
In fact there are a number of interesting images in that article which haven't been seen before.
Here's another new one that Apple will never comment on: (because they never do until the hoarding for the store windows is up)
It's not quite confirmation that this is where their Toronto flagship store is going, but they'd be insane not to take this spot. Back when this was a Bazis project it was mentioned in a Committee of Adjustment meeting by one of the Bazis people that Apple were going to go in, (never publicly confirmed by Apple), and this is the first time since that something has surfaced for the new design indicating that Apple decided to wait patiently for this location.
Good to see!
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In fact there are a number of interesting images in that article which haven't been seen before.
Here's another new one that Apple will never comment on: (because they never do until the hoarding for the store windows is up)
It's not quite confirmation that this is where their Toronto flagship store is going, but they'd be insane not to take this spot. Back when this was a Bazis project it was mentioned in a Committee of Adjustment meeting by one of the Bazis people that Apple were going to go in, (never publicly confirmed by Apple), and this is the first time since that something has surfaced for the new design indicating that Apple decided to wait patiently for this location.
Good to see!
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AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
Unfortunately kind of boring as Apple flagships goes. Really kind of odd that Apple would let them do this though - even if this is real, it's so many years ahead of store opening that it is uncharacteristically Apple to have any sort of news leak out so blatantly.
AoD
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True: there's no giant glass cube or tube protruding up from a pedestrian plaza, but they could hardly beat this location. (Although I would still like to see the Royal Bank bunker removed from in front of 2 Bloor E across the street, and my fantasy replacement would have been an Apple Store glass entryway down into a Hudson Bay Centre location which continued below into the area formerly taken by the Plaza Cinemas… but that's just me.)
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