Toronto The Residences of 488 University Avenue | 206.95m | 55s | Amexon | Core Architects

[G.L.17]

Saturday night through a window:

 

[interchange42]

And the old grille is all gone (on the south and east elevations, anyway). From earlier this afternoon:

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[someMidTowner]

June 17th:

 

[Toux]

That reveal of the steel bracing with the cladding set back is a nice detail. Kind of makes me wish the bracing was left exposed the entire way up!

 

[Irishmonk]

The new glazing is looking pretty sharp. This might be one of those seemingly underwhelming projects that ends up turning heads.

 

[Benito]

From lunchtime today.

 

[drum118]

Looking at the site last week, 48 sections of colunns, 120 beams to be place between the columns and the bracing is needed to get to the top of the existing building. The photo above show 12 of those columns in place now.

Looking west and the rendering, the extra floors will step back one bay at both ends, leaving 5 bays for the tower. Looking north, the rendering show something different, but support wise will see one bay on each side as step back, leaving 3 bays for the tower. About 60' x 100' floor slab

It's odd not seeing the old skin on the building.

Waiting to see what happens for the roof area.

 

[someMidTowner]

June 24:

 

[Ryan_T]

I much prefer this sort of wrapping and deconstruction, than gutting and facade-sticker-ing the old heritage form.

The steel beams actually tell a story; "there used to be another structure here, and we built right on top of it".

 

[maestro]

Why make every effort to hide that fact?

 

[someMidTowner]

July 1:

 

[67Cup]

I do not know what this will be like when it is completed but it is one of the most interesting projects in the city while it is in progress.

 

[Marcanadian]

Saturday:

488 University by Marcus Mitanis, on Flickr

488 University by Marcus Mitanis, on Flickr

488 University by Marcus Mitanis, on Flickr

488 University by Marcus Mitanis, on Flickr

488 University by Marcus Mitanis, on Flickr

488 University by Marcus Mitanis, on Flickr

488 University by Marcus Mitanis, on Flickr

 

[TheKingEast]

 

[adHominem]

I hadn't noticed those extra little bump-outs on the north side until I walked past yesterday evening. They're really squeezing as many square metres as they can out of this, aren't they!