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Collingwoodbuildinglover · Oct 29, 2023

And they have already started slipping forms out to form the next floor if you look

So to start holy smokes we take a lot of pictures of those building and thank you for that. I just went back through and this is the only time that I have seen. The sheer walls not connected between the core and the columns i wonder if they're no longer structurally needed? Possibly beams connecting the columns to the core in the future. Will be interesting to see but if they are entirely gone the speed will double as they had to tie each of those walls individually as well as tying the floor into them

A Torontonian Now · Oct 29, 2023

Yesterday evening:

jer1961 · Oct 29, 2023

Photos taken today, Sunday (Oct. 29). Three shots from the west end, showing 1 Bloor clearly visible, with the newly raised crane also prominent after 2 or 3 more segments added this weekend. Sure looks like 1 Bloor W has surpassed the height of 2 Bloor W!

The first photo taken from the Wallace pedestrian bridge, which is over the railway tracks by Bloor GO station, at Dundas; the second photo from Bloor and Symington, the bridge for the Davenport Diamond project in the foreground; the final shot is from Sterling and Dundas.

Edward Skira · Oct 29, 2023

Collingwoodbuildinglover · Oct 30, 2023

I'm wondering if we will see another floor get set today and prepped for bar

mburrrrr · Oct 30, 2023

Pictures from Saturday.

khaldoon · Oct 30, 2023

Great pictures. We may complain about concrete sidewalks, overhead wires and car centric roads but I don’t think you will find as many trees in another major city as you would here.

Northern Light · Oct 30, 2023

khaldoon said:
Great pictures. We may complain about concrete sidewalks, overhead wires and car centric roads but I don’t think you will find as many trees in another major city as you would here.

Comparisons can be challenging. There are different ways of calculating tree canopy cover which produce slightly different numbers, there's also the matter of where to draw boundaries.

But of major urban Centres in North America, I would probably put Toronto second.

Atlanta, Georgia, by just about every measure is more heavily treed (though less so right in its downtown core)

Source: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D7Ryo0SWsAEdz47?format=jpg&name=small

For comparison purposes Toronto is about ~30% tree canopy, where Atlanta is close to 36%

innsertnamehere · Oct 30, 2023

Atlanta is also arguably the sprawliest City in the US, and thats not without lots of competition.

Northern Light · Oct 30, 2023

innsertnamehere said:
Atlanta is also arguably the sprawliest City in the US, and thats not without lots of competition.

Greater Houston and Metro Dallas both cover more area, but both have more people (~1-1.5M)

innsertnamehere · Oct 30, 2023

Northern Light said:
Greater Houston and Metro Dallas both cover more area, but both have more people (~1-1.5M)

thus, the competition

3Dementia · Oct 30, 2023

Useless factoid: In the 150m to 300m built and u/c metric, Atlanta has 18 buildings (Toronto has more than 130).

For a metro of 5-6 million (depending on the bean counter/source) Atlanta's downtown built form is relatively modest imo.

None of which is very useful regarding the tree canopy discussion lol... suffice to say Atlanta and Toronto could well be the 2 greenest big cities on the continent.

Google Earth

DtTO · Oct 30, 2023

Northern Light said:
Comparisons can be challenging. There are different ways of calculating tree canopy cover which produce slightly different numbers, there's also the matter of where to draw boundaries.

But of major urban Centres in North America, I would probably put Toronto second.

Atlanta, Georgia, by just about every measure is more heavily treed (though less so right in its downtown core)

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Source: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D7Ryo0SWsAEdz47?format=jpg&name=small

For comparison purposes Toronto is about ~30% tree canopy, where Atlanta is close to 36%

That's pretty misleading. Atlanta might have 6% more tree cover, but it has about 1/3 the density of Toronto (comparing only city propers, I don't want to embarrass Atlanta too much). As a whole, an area that includes X million people in Atlanta would have far fewer trees and disrupt more of the environment than the same area in Toronto (because although it has 6% more tree cover, it would be 3X the size).

This can be easily visualized by looking at similar areas of the city, about the same distance from their respective downtown, using the same scale. I did not cherrypick here; go on Google Maps and check for yourself:

Northern Light · Oct 30, 2023

Now back to our regularly scheduled programming; Photos taken October 29th, 2023.

The photos will start at Charles east of Yonge, work their way up Yonge, then along Yorkville before a pic from Bloor and Huron to finish.