Toronto One Bloor East | 257.24m | 76s | Great Gulf | Hariri Pontarini

[Benito]

Almost now.

 

[Benito]

The mechanical penthouse is now enclosed on the south elevation. From Yonge and Gerrard and Yonge and College.

 

[Big Daddy]

Might have been more interesting if they had used a different colour for each "strata". From as distance it's hard to see the undulating panels.

 

[PMT]

From today:

 

[enrigue8]

I love the cladding.

 

[zang]

Might have been more interesting if they had used a different colour for each "strata". From as distance it's hard to see the undulating panels.

That's only because of the time of day that photo was taken, and as a result the direct light on that face.

The waves are far more prominent the further you get away from high noon.

 

[Benito]

Today.

 

[Edward Skira]

From Front Street.

 

[Benito]

This morning.

 

[ptbotrmpfn]

Wow does that church ever need some new copper roofing... thta green is so gross looking.

 

[Benito]

From the Brickworks today.

 

[Logan]

Great building however I am interested to see wait times for elevators once complete. The livability measure seems rather low at this point.

 

[zang]

Great building however I am interested to see wait times for elevators once complete. The livability measure seems rather low at this point.

Dude, the size of the building doesn't have that much to do with it. I'm in a 27 storey building with four elevators. It should be well covered, no? Except, no. There's no "return to ground when idle" in the software. So, you can come into the building and find four elevators above the 18th floor, just sitting there. So, you press the button and wait for one to come down, and it does. And then of course, because that car is coming down, every person who presses down once it starts gets that exact car. You can wait 5 minutes for an elevator, despite all of them being idle when you show up to the banks. To make it worse, if anyone comes in and presses down while you're waiting (like all the outparkers who show up at 5:10pm), that single moving car will be the one designated to take them down as well, and then you have to wait for it to come back up before you can hop on. In the meantime, the other three cars haven't moved since you showed up.

As far as actual livability, this area (Yonge/Bloor) has one of the highest—if not *the* highest—livability/walkability rating in the city. It's part of the reason I don't mind waiting for crappy elevators *that* much.

 

[Benito]

This morning in the fog.

 

[G.L.17]

Saturday afternoon: