christiesplits
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Today.
Toronto The Whitfield | 130m | 39s | Menkes | Giannone Petricone
- Thread starter Edward Skira
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mburrrrr
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From today
GenerationLee
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Yesterday:
DarkSideDenizen
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rdaner
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Taken 5 December.
tripwire
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Taken Sun Dec 8:
I haven't been in the area for many months now, and so I was shocked to see the progress made here, and how good it looks. It's was really nice to see the pop of colour and the curves.
I haven't been in the area for many months now, and so I was shocked to see the progress made here, and how good it looks. It's was really nice to see the pop of colour and the curves.
rdaner
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8s to go!
unrealestate
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definitely a surprising win that hopefully draws the eye away from big ugly across the street
Mihairokov
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No update today 
I am very late to the game here, but the Buildings Forum has been too big for about a year-and-a-half now for me to keep on top of all threads on a daily basis. While I used to be able to do that, it's just all new-post-backlog-clearance for me now on a thread-by-thread basis, wherever I must pop in. That means I can open a thread and find that I have 3, 15, 27, or 39 pages of posts to catch up on. (It was 14 pages of new posts in this case.)
Anyway, I wish I had checked in on The Whitfiield sooner. Not only is it looking great... but there was something a little off that was repeated in post after post in the thread. If I hadn't been on vacation during the last week of September, then I would have caught the boo-boos when we last reported on this building on the front page, all in regards to the below…
…so the front page story from September has been reworded to reflect that the precast was stained, and now hopefully with my slight repetition above, it'll have soaked in for all of you too!
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Anyway, I wish I had checked in on The Whitfiield sooner. Not only is it looking great... but there was something a little off that was repeated in post after post in the thread. If I hadn't been on vacation during the last week of September, then I would have caught the boo-boos when we last reported on this building on the front page, all in regards to the below…
For that reason, they don't use paint.
Stain is correct. While paint sits on the surface, stain soaks in a millimetre or so.
The stain means they won't have to worry about paint flaking off.
The one thing I wonder about the stain is at what rate it might fade. Red is the first colour to go in plastic or paper signs that are bleached by the sun. It would be a "colourfast" pigment in the stain, so a long time, but still not forever...
And that's why they stain precast — absorption as opposed to a surface treatment that can be worn off by a combo of wind, H²0, and whatever particulate might be in the H²0.
You don't want it to be easy, you want it to last. Even the developer (unlike what some are saying in the thread) will want it to last long enough (as long as it's cost effective).
…so the front page story from September has been reworded to reflect that the precast was stained, and now hopefully with my slight repetition above, it'll have soaked in for all of you too!
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mburrrrr
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Skyhighzz
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Nice. The only misstep or missed ops, is this vivid red brick, red aluminum tower isn’t 40 storey’s taller to join the only other red tall for all to see-in the overwhelming sea of grey-blue.
Lachlan Holmes
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Some pictures taken this afternoon. I quite like this one. I did note something interesting, however: the logo of Core Development Group, which was to the right of the Menkes logo on the hoarding, has been covered up. A quick look back in the thread shows that it was still on the hoarding as of June 15th (post #302, page 21) and was covered up by July 11th (post #315, page 21). Are they no longer involved with this one? 
