Toronto The Britt Condos | 142.03m | 41s | Lanterra | Arcadis

[G.L.17]

From Tuesday. Further stripping:

 

[AlbertC]

 

[Jasonzed]

 

[G.L.17]

Today:

 

[Therion]

I'd be curious to find out how many truckloads of scrap metal they are removing from the site. Must be in the mid hundreds by the time it is done.

 

[G.L.17]

Today:

 

[G.L.17]

Glass is nearly all gone:

 

[FMCS]

Can anyone please tell me if the present tower is being demolished or are they simply re-cladding?

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Recladding and addition on top - they wouldn't have go through the trouble demolishing it like this otherwise.

Are we the only city that does this? I don't seem to have come across projects like this elsewhere, and I can think of two others in Toronto already.

AoD

 

[FMCS]

Thank you. Yes, don't really see too much of this elsewhere it seems...

 

[Gphorce]

It's not a bad way of building in all seriousness. A lot of these buildings have a lot of embodied energy in their development so preserving the shell like we see here is a sustainable choice for intensification.

 

[Razz]

South-east view from the Distillery, taken February 1, 2016:

 

[interchange42]

I'm still not happy that Lanterra/P+S couldn't have found a way to preserve the Brutalist/International Style facade of the Sutton Place for the redevelopment, but it is interesting watching this morph at the moment.

Yesterday, from the southwest, then moving about:

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[G.L.17]

Today:

 

[someMidTowner]

Today: