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Since UrbanToronto’s July, 2025 update, cladding has advanced at 50 Scollard in Toronto’s Bloor-Yorkville neighbourhood, with glazing and precast panels now extending across nearly the full height of the 41-storey luxury condominium from Lanterra Developments, designed by Foster + Partners with Arcadis as Architect of Record. Rising at the northeast corner of Bay and Scollard streets, its stepped volumes now sharply defined with cladding as exterior work nears completion.
Looking south down Davenport Road and Bay Street in September, 2025, the north elevation is now fully clad to the top floor, with its step-backs prominent at the 29th and 36th levels. The corduroy-textured precast panels extend uniformly up the facade to the mechanical penthouse enclosure. The slender massing emphasizes the tower’s verticality within the Bloor-Yorkville skyline. Tucked in between it and other towers to the left, the rising form of One Bloor West is just visible. A centrally placed crane remains in operation above 50 Scollard.
In a northwest view across Scollard Street earlier this month, the south elevation also shows cladding completed to the mechanical penthouse, while glazing installation on the east elevation has advanced nearly to the top. Notably, the central and second-to-right vertical bays of glazing conceal solid concrete elevator and stair cores. These elements are unusually positioned along the east edge of the floor-plate in this slender building, with most suites oriented westward. At street level, heritage row houses on the east side of the site remain shrouded in scaffold and green netting as restoration work overseen by ERA Architects continues. The building's service entrance is clad in red brick.
The east elevation’s upper floors show the final northside step-back visible on the right as the tower transitions into its final six residential levels, capped by the mechanical penthouse, its bare concrete walls exposed pending enclosure. Glazing installation is nearly complete, but still missing in patches across the upper levels.
Looking north along Bay Street, the south elevation is fully clad across its three staggered volumes, each stepping back as they rise eastward to greater heights. All sections of the south-facing elevations appear enclosed, while the construction hoist remains attached to the southwest corner.
Most recently, the west elevation highlights the ongoing installation of its bronze-framed tripartite Chicago-style windows, with glazing largely in place up to the 36th floor. The tower’s stepped massing leaves the upper floors of each recessed volume open for balconies. While partial glazing has reached the 37th and 38th floors on the upper tier to the left. Interruptions in the facade remain. Near the crown, the exposed concrete of the elevator and stair cores is visible on the uppermost volume.
50 Scollard stands 147.62m tall and will house 148 residential units upon completion.
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| Related Companies: | Arcadis, Egis, ERA Architects, Isotherm Engineering Ltd., Lanterra Developments, Rebar Enterprises Inc, Unilux HVAC Industries Inc. |
