builddown
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The top is getting interesting!!
Toronto Richmond Adelaide Centre: EY Tower | 188.05m | 40s | Oxford Properties | Kohn Pedersen Fox
skycandy
Senior Member
kris
Senior Member
skycandy
Senior Member
Indeed it is! Was playing around to get a sense of the finished roofline.
stjames2queenwest
Senior Member
I hope it ends up just a bit taller. I feel like that image makes it look the same height as INDX and it SHOULD be just a bit taller than INDX
skycandy
Senior Member
Yes it is a BIT taller, but only 9 metres. And it's a titch farther away than INDX from the vantage point in the photo, so perspective would make them appear similar in height. I gave it only an ever-so-slightly higher height in the image.
ptbotrmpfn
Senior Member
Wow great shots thanks for sharing !
Redroom Studios
Senior Member
love the heritage restoration component and the presence it has at street level with that sweeping "awning" that juts out from the base on the west face. not thrilled about the upper section of the building and the view of this thing from city hall is just hideous imo. maybe Sheraton will add a second tower in the future and partially block the ass end view of this tower. to me that feels like a design oversight. the building needed a design that gave it a face on Adelaide Street as well as NPS.
UrbanFervour
Active Member
Does anyone know if the "shard" piece facing NPS will be lit up like bank of America is? It should be- that feature on BoA is amazing.
UrbanFervour
Active Member
^ Then again, Toronto-hasn't been copying New York in recent years and it goes hand in hand with rising civic pride... I wouldn't want to see us backslide with a big copycat gesture so scratch that.
steveve
Senior Member
The steel frame is rising very quickly:
ADRM
Senior Member
Super interesting. Am I right to assume that none of the space that will be enclosed by the steel frame will be occupied? i.e. Is that mostly mechanical and such that's up there above the concrete portions of the building?
Similarly, does that mean this building is essentially topped off? It looks to me like the vertical steel bits on the front-left corner of the building (northeast, I suppose) might represent the maximum height, especially with the horizontal-ish beams seemingly coming to meet that point from the right-front (northwest) corner.
Similarly, does that mean this building is essentially topped off? It looks to me like the vertical steel bits on the front-left corner of the building (northeast, I suppose) might represent the maximum height, especially with the horizontal-ish beams seemingly coming to meet that point from the right-front (northwest) corner.
steveve
Senior Member
Earlier renderings led me to believe there would be some sort of sky garden at the top (trees clearly depicted), but judging by the jungle of steel beams, it doesn't look like a habitable floor plate. Perhaps that was a tossed around idea at some point, but it looks like it may end up being strictly mechanical.
Now if only there was a sky-garden-restaurant at the top of the building overlooking the square...
(Or even something along the lines of the Walkie Talkie building in London)
