MetroMan
Senior Member
This is gonna go fast from here on out..
I'm sure we'll begin seeing cladding on the lower floors by the end of the Spring.
I'm sure we'll begin seeing cladding on the lower floors by the end of the Spring.
I don't think you'll see cladding until early next year. Unless something's changed the plan was to leave all of the parking levels open for construction access, and to start the curtainwall above the garage. I think the lower level cladding will end up being the very last thing that gets done.
I'll have my fingers crossed until the public art component goes up on the parking floors. It could really make or break this intersection. Hopefully Donald has no say in who gets the commission.
Edit: Has anyone seen any drafts of the Snow/Speirs proposal?
(http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2007/te/bgrd/backgroundfile-6110.pdf)
I have The public art piece on the ground floor is really cool. I saw a small mock-up of it. It's being done by an artist in Ontario.
The early draft of the Snow/Speirs lighting effects I saw a while ago are going to be very cool as well. I wish I could share it. But I can't...
A year for cladding? 'whatever.'
Well, they need to get the parking structure up to 8 I think, and then they'll need at least another 8-10 storeys poured above that before the curtainwall can get started. They're at 3 now, and need to go 15 more to allow for curtainwall. If things keep going at a floor every two weeks that would give you 30 weeks, which would take you pretty close to early next year.
Tho is just what I was told, could be right, could be wrong, but it seems reasonable enough.
Once they get past the parking levels, we would have to assume they'll likely move alot faster than a floor every 2 weeks.
I thought i read some time back on this forum, that they were planning to build a floor a week.
Yes, they will be building very quicky, but we won't see a rapid rise in the building until they move past the parking levels. So 5 or so more floors to go.