Toronto One Bloor West | 308.6m | 85s | Tridel | Foster + Partners

The third photo from the top of this page reveals a hawk soaring in front of the blue corner RCS. Pretty cool, maybe a good omen?
 
wmedia said:
Tall Poppy Syndrome is an attitude I'm very familiar with from my home country (UK), but contrary to your observation, I don't see anywhere near as much of that from Canadians, who I find to generally be supportive of innovators. Not saying it doesn't exist, though.
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It used to be worse. I think generally people have started becoming more warm to people who innovate and take risks. It's welcoming change imo. Tall Poppy Syndrome is something we could do without.

UtakataNoAnnex said:
Both observations are misplaced IMO and to put it mildly. As there has been demonstratively issues with this developer that where outside of audience envy and jealousy. Those have been mostly brought up as opposed to thinking some weird orthodoxy that this person can't build something this tall or fulfill this dream. And this certainly hasn't been thing over with even the now taller Pinnacle One...

...conversely, Mizrahi is certainly no Trump or Musk when trying to fulfill those dreams. And because he played fast and loose with financing and rules that later got him into trouble, is no evidence he was a narcissist of any degree...he was not an abusive or toxic person that would fire anyone who looked at him wrong or an attention getting authoritarian, as far as I am aware. So poppycock for calling him that. Really.

So it's bunch of pointless innuendoes thrown around by parties without really dealing with what's going on or what happened here, IMO. Meanwhile the show of this building being constructed moves on unabated. Is that not what we really wanted in the end?
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Yeah, I fully agree with this. Mizrahi took a lot of risk with financing that eventually got him into trouble but I don't think he's a "bad" person that his detractors are trying to paint him as. The Americans are very used to these sorts of financial failures where someone takes on some degree of risk and can't always execute despite their best efforts.
 
cityspace said:
Your analysis is missing a key insight, IMO! A certain level of overconfident, frivolous, imprudent, despotic and narcissistic financial and professional delusion may be necessary for the inception of a design of this caliber, IMO.
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The phrase if I succeed I'm a genius if I fail I'm a monster comes to mind
 
Part 1 of 2 taken on March 3, 2024:

Bay and Cumberland:
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Balmuto Side:

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Back Alley:

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Bloor Side:

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How do they arrive at 91 floors for this building?

The building is made up of five segments separated by four two-storey mechanical levels.
The three center segments are identical at 18 storeys each and total 54.
The upper segment is 12 floors, that makes 66.
Four mechanical levels at two storeys apiece brings it to 74
The lowest segment ( commercial, hotel etc. ) has 14 floors making it 88
Then there is the first floor for a total of 89.

What am I missing? Thanks in advance.
 
Sevenman said:
How do they arrive at 91 floors for this building?

The building is made up of five segments separated by four two-storey mechanical levels.
The three center segments are identical at 18 storeys each and total 54.
The upper segment is 12 floors, that makes 66.
Four mechanical levels at two storeys apiece brings it to 74
The lowest segment ( commercial, hotel etc. ) has 14 floors making it 88
Then there is the first floor for a total of 89.

What am I missing? Thanks in advance.
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The ground floor (of the tower) technically counts as three floors due to its height as the podiums on either side have mid floors that aren't built in the tower portion at ground hence the story count

Edit. It may count as two but the ground floor definitely counts as multiple stories
 
Collingwoodbuildinglover said:
The ground floor (of the tower) technically counts as three floors due to its height as the podiums on either side have mid floors that aren't built in the tower portion at ground hence the story count

Edit. It may count as two but the ground floor definitely counts as multiple stories
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Isn’t there also a rooftop section for the penthouses, which will be the 91st floor?
 
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