The core has been jacked.

Nice imagery.



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Good update. Why is there new multi-storey hoarding?

Good update. Why is there new multi-storey hoarding?

It's to protect the workers from the wind.


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here comes the core notch....

WOW!!! Really fast? 15 floors or 8 floors with steels? serious?

this tower has been rising really fast, you're right! by summer/fall it could be visible from pretty far out

I was always under the impression this would be a wider building. Will it extend beyond the protective boards??

It is a monster in person, the core alone is gigantic.

nice update, it is rising well :)

wow, this is...too exciting! finally, a big office tower being built in my era!

I was always under the impression this would be a wider building. Will it extend beyond the protective boards??

no, the steel beams are the extent of the building's footprint.

I was always under the impression this would be a wider building. Will it extend beyond the protective boards??

it's gonna be a sleek and tall office tower!

yay!!!

Some updates from the Toronto forum:

New stacking plan including Heenan Blaikie:
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source (http://www.bayadelaidecentre.com/upload/dynamicpagepdfdocumentpdf/225-14%20Stack%20Q1%202008%20with%20Heenan%20-%20external.pdf)

The tower is gradually filling up! It looks like Heenan Blaikie will take 4 1/2 floors, and Fasken seems to now be taking up the full 18th floor, as opposed to just half of it as on the last stacking plan. Also, there seems to be a "mystery tenant" taking up half of the 12th floor.

February 25

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shot them on 23th march

first glass installed
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Good update M.Schwerdtner. I wonder if the installed glass there still has any plastic covering? Or is the final colour we will be seeing? If it is, it looks a lot darker than the renderings. Although I think it's a great colour for instilling a sense of calm.

it's gonna be a sleek and tall office tower!

yay!!!

Np with a sleek and tall office tower, I was just confuzzled!:cheers:

Nice update

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Saw this pic over at UT. Credit goes Geekaroo.

Just wanted to show how massive this beast is. And we've still got a good 21 floors to go!

Good update M.Schwerdtner. I wonder if the installed glass there still has any plastic covering? Or is the final colour we will be seeing? If it is, it looks a lot darker than the renderings. Although I think it's a great colour for instilling a sense of calm.

I hope it's the final colour and not a plastic covering. The smokey grey has a very rich lustre.

I agree. I like that colour as well.


New update from Ziggy:

Some photos from the Bay Adelaide Centre website (http://www.bayadelaidecentre.com/photogallery/index.ch2).

Looks like they are putting up scaffolding to rebuild the historical facade:
http://www.bayadelaidecentre.com//upload/photogalleryphotoimage/122-97660003sm.jpg

Wide shot:
http://www.bayadelaidecentre.com//upload/photogalleryphotoimage/123-97660001sm.jpg

Trump is going in between that small gap beside Scotia Plaza. It's going to be very crowded.

Still looks puny compared to Scotia Plaza
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source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/23484417@N08/

More glass. I have to say that it's quite sleek. Very decent.




Bay-Adelaide photos by me April 18th

SouthEast Corner:

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NorthEast Corner:

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Southwest Corner:

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Close-up shot of glass:

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looks nice

nice!

How meny floors they have build?

nice glass! :okay:

How meny floors they have build?

Probably around 33-34.

I'm loving the glass, and the shape of this building is simple yet sexy.

The glass is sure going up quickly!!! :banana:

recent pic by Geekaroo at urbantoronto.ca...

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another update, by Geekaroo over at urbantoronto, showing the glass curtainwall...:)

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and a context shot by Mike in TO...

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WOW!

The glass looks just fantastic..! :)

A classical facade and a boxy design but a pretty tower overall. :D

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source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/7791383@N05/2479217858/

Great photo. It looks like it's from TD Centre; I can't wait to get up there again during Doors Open.

I like that little old building looking thing in the corner. Macy's herald square style!

- Andy

Coming along nicely!

From various places around the city today.

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Hope Trump will rise as fast as this one! :)

Hope Trump will rise as fast as this one! :)

Well Trump is incredibly slim. The foot print is maybe 1/2 of Bay Adelaide Centre.

The following updates were posted today by forumer, current. I hope he doesn't mind.

May 25

From the TD Centre
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From New City Hall
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source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/seangm/

some nice night shots of Bay Adelaide, pics by Redroom Studios at urbantoronto.ca....

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Good shots, guys!

The shots are great! Thanks for all the work.

Some impressive shots of Bay-Adelaide going up! Looks like a great building.

Clean Cut=P...10 floors more would have been perfect

recent pic of Bay Adelaide, by lxmoss over at urbantoronto.ca....

http://www.mossproductions.ca/urbantoronto/upload13.jpg

From Francely57 @ SSP

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Prefer this view to the usual one from the islands, but I've always found it strange that you can't see the top of the Skydome. You can fit a 31 floor building inside it. It's tall and wide enough that you should be able to see bits of it.

More box office towers in downtown TO, yawn..................people let's get in the game and think of Toronto as a very cold Dubai, lol!

:wtf::wtf::wtf:

Not so fast. Check out some of the other towers that have been approved or recently proposed. The conservative culture of a city is not something that is easily changed. That we are seeing buildings like the the AGO Transformation, the L Tower, AURA, the Lee Chin Crystal, and ICE condominiums is testament that a huge shift has occurred.

Toronto's establishment is conservative by nature, and has historically not leaned towards a cosmopolitan aesthetic the way Montreal does. Toronto's sensibilities have always been rooted in it's agricultural past. It's not a culture that is drawn to design that turns it's back to tradition.

We're never going to build buildings like Middle Eastern cultures do, but we're certainly creating a new modern aesthetic that is quintessentially 'Toronto'. It is one that marries beautiful clean modern lines, yet adheres to traditional ideas about architecture. That's a far better outcome than simply reproducing what is being done elsewhere. It speaks to the maturing of this city, and a city that is becoming an influential exporter of fashion, design, and culture, rather than just a second tier city that absorbs these things from others.

Bay-Adelaide is not the best example, but many of these other towers that will soon dot the skyline are buildings that speak to this. They may not wow at first glance, but they are thoughtfully designed, and will age very very well.

It should be noted that most of the world is opting for the type of aesthetic that is common of places like Dubai or London. If Toronto stays the course, Toronto will become an ever rarer metropolis in a world of clone cities. That's not a bad proposition.

I agree with isaidso.

Being different at any cost is not the way. I personally find the restraint of Toronto very soothing. It makes me think of class and elegance. There is something timeless about it. The fashion is not stressed.

Yet, Toronto does have quite a variety already: all the downtown projects are somewhat different. Coldish (except for Royal Bank) but different from each other. What I do mind is the proliferation of glassy / boxy / semi-prefab residential towers. Too many of them look alike. THIS IS NOT GOOD.

But as far as Bay-Adelaide is concerned, I do not mind at all. It's "jazzy" part will come from incorporating the older facade. It's structure may be conservative, but it is very proper. It does not shout. It simply talks. And that I find healthy.

nice BA pic by lxmoss over at urbantoronto.ca.....

http://mossproductions.ca/urbantoronto/july8th.jpg

Wonderful update. Wish this one was double the height.

Yes, I'm not a proponent of height for the sake of height, but 434 metres would have suited this lot. There aren't any substantial lots left in the CBD beyond this. The market may dictate what is built, but Toronto needed much much taller here.

it would have looked mighty nice at 300m, that's for sure! ah well :)

I prefer height variance. Significantly shorter, as this is, or significantly taller than the buildings in the CBD looks much better.

It looks wonderful going up! ... I'm very excited about this, and it's risen so quickly!

Toronto's office maket cannot support the height you are talking about. Plus, it looks like we are entiring a (hopefully mild) recession, so the prospects for another downtown office tower now, with the two that are being built actively, is unlikely. Condo's sure, poeple love to live in Socialist Canada. Business, not so much, poeple don't really like our business laws (and incessent new taxes) and are taking their business investment dollars and businesses elsewhere (even Canadians). Cheers.

Nothing like some doom and gloom to brighten up the message boards...

Toronto's office maket cannot support the height you are talking about. Plus, it looks like we are entiring a (hopefully mild) recession, so the prospects for another downtown office tower now, with the two that are being built actively, is unlikely. Condo's sure, poeple love to live in Socialist Canada. Business, not so much, poeple don't really like our business laws (and incessent new taxes) and are taking their business investment dollars and businesses elsewhere (even Canadians). Cheers.

It was alluded to that the added height wanted was in relation to future needs and aesthetics, not what the market can bear.

Socialist? Canada is one of the most right wing nations around. There are probably only 3 or 4 countries further to the right. Compared to them, Canada may seem socialist, but they don't decide what the definition is. It is one set by political scientists and Canada simply doesn't fit the criteria even if one wants to label this country as such.

I'm not trying to post doom and gloom, and I like socialist precepts just as much as the next guy (Yeah for free health care and education!!). What I was saying was that the growth in business investment in Toronto (which would result in the demand for a tower the size you and I are wishing for) hasn't kept up with the growth in residential investment, and that it is possibly related to the current administration, which continues to invent new business taxes and red tape at a furious pace. I'm not trying to turn this into a political spectrum argument or even a political argument at all. Just strictly saying that in my opinion, the type of tower we are wishing for is not likely in the next decade. After all Brookfield, being one of the largest office tower owners in North America could have easily built whatever size or design tower they wanted on this site (as they have ample capital - look at the Hudson yards development they are proposing in NYC) but they chose a rather mediocre 50 floor tower, in the exact same floor plan design as First Canadian Place, which they also own, and is right across the street. My guess is they wanted somewhere to park the tenant overflow from FCP and this makes everybody happy because they are essentially the same floor plans (thus easier to market). Who knows, either way, it is not a terribly exciting development, in my opinion. Toronto has many others that are much more worthy of discussion right now...

No worries. I do agree with a lot of what you're saying.

Our governments and business leaders certainly aren't doing nearly enough to make Toronto the head office city it should be. We may have many head offices, but should have more than we do.

Toronto has snagged very few global head offices when Toronto firms merge with non-Toronto firms, very few North American head offices of non-North American firms, and very few big firms have picked up and moved their global head offices to Toronto. We should look to Charlotte, North Carolina to see a city doing many things right to cultivate head office formation. Charlotte really shouldn't be a head office city of any consequence, but has managed to turn themselves into one.

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from dt_toronto_geek at UT.
The core is practically T/O although I wish it were halfway:)

We should look to Charlotte, North Carolina to see a city doing many things right to cultivate head office formation. Charlotte really shouldn't be a head office city of any consequence, but has managed to turn themselves into one.

Charlotte is a head office for several large banks because it had the good fortune of having a local businessman rise to success in the banking industry and moved various financial institutions' headquarters to his home city.

It was nothing Charlotte did.

Great photo - thanks!!

Cool picture!!!!:banana:^^

Bay Adelaide has topped out. The forms are coming down.


taken from 32 and up...

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Hey guys, thought I'd post a few more from the location

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best,

Jono->


http://www.urbantoronto.ca/showthread.php?p=205244#post205244

is 217 metres the accurate height figure? in skyscraperpage it says its 215 metres. But I go with 217 (skyscrapercity's)

Too bad it looks rather insignificant in distant shots because up close it is very tall. I guess it will look more complete and uniform once the cladding has caught up to the core.

Here's a couple of pics I took while I was in Toronto for a few hours
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Thanks! I love the FCP reflection!

These pictures are awesome, I am considering moving to Toronto.

Dope! pics

couple of Bay Adelaide pics taken from the east side of downtown..pics by Wyliepoon over at urbantoronto.ca....

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That truly is a great vantage point of lower Toronto. :cheers:

Great update!! Thanks

Some pictures of mine from yesterday. Bay Adelaide at its final height, as seen in the skyline.

http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/3534/img5823zr6.jpg

Nice^^

Toronto looks a lot better than I thought. Great pictures.

Bay-Adelaide is coming up well. It's a great addition to the cluster, and it keeps our office area as boxy as possible!

couple of Bay Adelaide pics taken today, posted by geekaroo at urbantoronto.ca.....

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I hope they change the multi-phase plan and build a supertall for the next tower!

^^ Me too. This is prime retail estate as far as office towers go (although I doubt we need much more office space than what is already proposed). I'd rather have a much taller better designed tower, than two smaller ones.

Remember all the office space we're loosing with the 1 Bloor West conversion. :)
It might be a struggle but I can fathom Brookfield making up for they're next two phases and the lost Bloor space with a 400m mixed use tower (mostly office)

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Courtesy of Canadian television show, Flashpoint.

a recent pic by current over at urbantoronto.ca....

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here's a vertical pano looking down Bay St. at Bay Adelaide Centre, posted by tomms over at urbantoronto.ca....(warning - large file)

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pic by Solaris at urbantoronto.ca, BA is nearly topped out!

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Sad that it looks so stubby. But nice glass. Some sharp projections would have been great. It would look like the New York Times tower.

^^It's far from over sir. Remember the awesome Four Seasons project!:)

Love the cladding on this building.

This tower is a good "filler" tower.
The CBD drops off too sharply to the north.
This building helps the "pyramid look" of downtown from the west or east.

From last evening.

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Man, I love Scotia Plaza. Sharp as a knife. Bay Adelaide's not bad either but Scotia tops it hands down. Thanks for the pic's.

pic of Bay Adelaide, with the Spire condo in the foreground...pic by Andrew3D at urbantoronto.ca....

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A stunning picture by Circuitboy84, of the construction site of the Bay-Adelaide Centre.

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Nov 10 2008
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Nov 12 2008
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Nov 2, 2008
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Incredibly sexy photos! The night shots are superb!

SUperb - thank you!!!

Awesome pictures. unbelieveable. :eek:

and now remember that 2 282m tall towers are still to come in the downtown area. that will look very impressive IMO

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Great shots - thanks a lot.

Awesome tower :)
How many floors to go?

fantastic view, moon is adding even more beauty in the picture. :)

Awesome tower :)
How many floors to go?

It is already topped out. There's a steel roof structure that is still being added right now. But it's basically at full height already.

taken last week

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From Marcanadian



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December 14, 2008
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Amazing pic :drool: Where is the tower, I see a crane in the background?

to the left of the crane you are likely talking about, standing unfinished with a crane of it's own...look closely.

This building signifies new growth in the downtown core... first major tower in a decade. But it's just the start to more great things to come.
At such a prime location, it is too bad that the tower could not be taller.

Here is the first update, the old core of the flop:
http://static.flickr.com/44/163630712_4e6d3bae58_b.jpg

wow what a nice building xD:lol:

As much as I like a bunker, that's a bit too brutalist even for me.

Bay Street rattled as wind sends glass flying from office tower

ANTHONY REINHART

From Saturday's Globe and Mail

December 19, 2008 at 8:57 PM EST

TORONTO — As if falling fortunes weren't enough, Bay Streeters had one more reason to duck and run yesterday morning, when broken glass rained down from an office tower under construction.

The accident happened at the nearly finished Bay-Adelaide Centre, on the corner of the same name, at about 8:20 a.m. as winds were whipping up a severe winter storm.

The winds caused a set of heavy cables, strung from a derrick crane atop the building to a winch on the ground, to sway against the building and shatter four panes of glass between the 30th and 40th floors of the 51-storey tower, said Paul Hickey, construction manager for the builder, EllisDon. The crane was not in operation at the time.

Area streets were closed off for most of the day as bits of glass fell and, in some cases, were blown as far as Richmond Street, police said.

Pedestrians were asked to use the underground PATH system in the meantime, which many would have done anyway due to the weather.

Media reports of minor injuries to two people early in the day later proved groundless.

“No one was hurt,” Mr. Hickey said.

The cables were immediately secured to the building to stop them from swaying, and were to be removed once calmer weather returned today.

“It's definitely an anomaly,” Mr. Hickey said of the swaying cables, which he attributed to a wind vortex created by the building's unconventional corners, which are inset rather than squared off. The cables, strung along one of those inset corners, swung more violently as a result, he said.

It wasn't the first time downtown pedestrians had to be diverted around falling debris.

Last January, strong winds blew pieces of the CIBC logo off the bank's 58-storey headquarters, to the ground 200 metres below.

In May of 2007, a 140-kilogram marble tile fell from the 54th floor of the nearby First Canadian Place, the country's tallest skyscraper, and crashed to the roof of the building's three-storey podium.

Two months before that, several streets and a section of the Gardiner Expressway were closed due to large chunks of ice dropping from the CN Tower and other high-rise buildings.


source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081219.wglass1219/BNStory/National/home

which he attributed to a wind vortex created by the building's unconventional corners, which are inset rather than squared off

At last. I finally understand the FCP wind vortex which I have complained about to city hall with no response... at least I know now.

Damn those corners.

Why so much cement?

Most large towers have cement cores that size. They house stairwells, elevators, and other mechanical. That cement stump sat idle for years and years after the initial development was cancelled. When Bay-Adelaide was approved, the cement stump was demolished, and everything built from scratch.

December 14, 2008
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:drool:stunning skyline:master:

:drool:stunning skyline:master:

yes, that shot is DEFINITELY banner-worthy.

What an amazing picture!!! So Beautiful... now I have a good Picture of Toronto :master:

Hi there,

New to the thread and the site in general. I love the images I have seen from all over the world so I thought I would add some of my own of the Toronto Skyline.


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GREAT pics of Toronto, never been, but now I'll go, great skyline.............

Unfortunately the other two towers have been delayed. I see this as a good opportunity for Brookfield to redesign the rest of the development, perhaps one supertall instead since Toronto is where Brookfield is based.

As long as the next 2 towers are an improvement on this tower. It provides needed office space, but little else. Bay-Adelaide is very forgettable. At least it's not tacky. It would be nice to get a super tall, but architecture should always respect it's surroundings. Those planned 2 towers sit right next to the Bay store. It would be difficult to build a super tall building on those lots and still compliment the area.

The skyline is looking better and better. :cheers:

Posted by caltrane74 on UT:

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Courtesy of Phil Jackman on Flickr

Hmmmm... I like the multicoloured glass on the building on the right side of the photo. I wonder what it is? :)

Hmmmm... I like the multicoloured glass on the building on the right side of the photo. I wonder what it is? :)

It's a new building for George Brown College. There's a cool, commercial-style kitchen on the ground floor. Go check it out in person.

Here's a nice picture of Scotia... er, Bay Adelaide West from smucky at
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee89/smuncky/DSC00078.jpg

hot

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Courtesy of wyliepoon

Great photos guys.

Boxcity!

Bay Adelaide is the god of the boxes. It looks like a mirror, or giant snowy mountain or something when you see it in the distance.

Bay Adelaide from way up high....pic by PSnake at urbantoronto.ca....

http://www.gunnerx.ca/psnake/smallweb/BAC/BAC_Jan2709.jpg

really nice, and it's almost finished...

I never realized the fins were that tall!

I don´t like it!

photo from a couple of weeks ago...the construction elevator has actually been already removed...pic by Solaris at urbantoronto.ca...

http://i350.photobucket.com/albums/q438/Solaris_Metrogate/IMG_3387.jpg

T/O?

^^ It's been topped out since September. The title should have been changed months ago.

BA exterior looking nearly finished, flickr pic by upstateknitter....

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Does anybody think this building will be included in doors open this year?

Looks great, although it's still dwarfed by Scotia Plaza.

Can someone please knock down the building on the left with 3 9 0 on it? Terrible... B/A is looking wonderful though. Very sleek and crisp.

nifty shot by androiduk over at urbantoronto.ca, showing 1 King W, Scotia Tower, and Bay-Adelaide...

http://andrewfare.com/UT/ba5.jpg

It does a great job of contrasting with the other large towers in the core

Very beautiful building ! The last pic is cool !

By jonathancastellino on Flickr

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Wow!!!!

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source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wyliepoon/sets/72157616322421306/

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Incredible how fast it grew up XD... in just one year it has been topped out... I remember when I was there in november 2007 it look this way :

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looks very nice :D but don't you guys think the design is like an updated version of BMO tower? i mean the shape is similar

looks very nice :D but don't you guys think the design is like an updated version of BMO tower? i mean the shape is similar

They're planning on re cladding FCP (Bank of Montreal). If they choose something similar to Bay-Adelaide, they're going to look like twins.

GREAT, really great tower!

they are building a plaza in front of Bay-Adelaide.....pic by smuncky at urbantoronto.ca....

http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee89/smuncky/DSC00806.jpg

awesome building, one of my favourites in Toronto:okay:

What a wonderful project!!

Good on you Toronto.

A hot corner in for more change
2 May 2009
National Post

At 1:30 p. m. yesterday, two workers in reflective orange vests and blue Ellis Don hard hats began breaking up the sidewalk at the northeast corner of Bay and Adelaide streets, using a jackhammer.

The sidewalk has had a good life; a stamp on one piece reads, "CITY -- 1957." Crews are replacing the lowly cement with grey granite, to befit the long-delayed arrival of the Bay Adelaide Centre, at 333 Bay St.

While the work is underway, a three-metre fence in blue steel blocks the sidewalk, directing people to walk on Bay Street, which retains one lane for cars northbound.

Controlled chaos has reigned here for some time. With workers from Lewis Build pouring cement for the fourth storey of the Trump Tower on the southeast corner, and Ellis Don putting up the 51-storey Bay Adelaide tower across the way, Adelaide has for several years now squeezed from four lanes to two east of Bay Street, and has had no north sidewalk for a long time.

One could say that this is a hot corner of Toronto. The downside of being hot: It is in a continual state of transformation. In the morning I swung by the City of Toronto's wonderful archives on Spadina Road, where binders and directories and microfilm and old maps tell the story: nothing lasts on this site. If Bay-Adelaide lasts 30 years here, it will be a record.

In 1880 the Zion Church stood on the corner. North of it was a laundry, and, to its north, Fire Station No. 1 on the corner of Temperance Street.

By 1903 the church was gone, and the corner held I. N. Cassidy Cigars, the American News Agency, Seven Sutherland Sisters hair tonic, Lee Collins Co. stencils, and the American Pressing Co. Only the firehall survived.

Along Adelaide crowded a lab, a bar supplier, a corset-maker, a printer and a stationers' store. A photo from the period shows streetcar tracks on both Adelaide and Bay, slicing through the mud. One can imagine the scene: The air hangs heavy with horse droppings and cigar smoke. Streetcar wheels squeal, women lift their skirts to skip over puddles, newsboys hawk papers and men swill cheap whisky in noisy bars.

(Ads in the 1903 phone book exhort readers to buy "the Very Best Rogers Coal" and, for pure Lake Simcoe ice, "Try the Lake Simcoe Ice Supply Co.")

The Farmers Bank of Canada bought the corner and built a bank, but it went bust in 1910. By 1923 its premises had been filled by a tobacconist, shoemaker, watchmaker, a shoestore and -- my favourite-- Longbottom Tailors.

It's hard to imagine that tumult today. Downtown Toronto has traded street theatre for a quieter, cleaner world underground. Under Scotia Plaza you find action: a man shining shoes, shoppers, cafes. A sign beside Winners promises, "A New PATH Coming Soon: September 2009." That tunnel will connect to Bay-Adelaide.

Still, lots of people walked on Bay Street skirting the construction site yesterday, carrying bags from The Bay, Aeropostale and Abercrombie. A couple of women, touristing from China, stopped to ask me the way to the CN Tower. One carried a parasol.

Compared to what's been on this corner before, the Bay-Adelaide Centre is a behemoth. The builders left an 11-storey stone and yellow-brick facade of the Herbert House office building, which now forms the northwest corner of the new tower. Two gryphons carved in stone guard the front door. It is a scrap of history, dwarfed by a cliff of glass.

Workers are scheduled to complete the granite sidewalks here on Monday, May 11, at 7 p. m. I look forward to the day. The area's long-suffering pedestrians deserve a nice place to walk.

i saw it today and it is almost complete except for a handful of windows

5/17

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Wonderful. It is so elegant, thanks for all the updates.

One more :

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By Marcanadian on UT


Bay-Adelaide on the Left; VU Condominium (U/C) on the right

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Lit glass pavement?

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Bay Adelaide Centre doors open
300,000 square feet of prime office space still in need of tenants
Toronto Star
17 September 2009

Ric Clark is looking for a few good tenants.

The CEO of Brookfield Properties Corp. officially opened Toronto's newest office skyscraper yesterday.

The Bay Adelaide Centre is the first significant development in the financial district in 17 years. Work on the site ground to a halt in 1991 after the economy slowed and now it opens during another challenging era. Vacancy rates are increasing, and more than 3 million square feet of office space are expected to be built in the downtown core by the end of this year.

"It took a while to get here, but we got it done," said Clark, sitting in the lobby of the 51-storey building.

"When we started with the project, we had strong confidence in the economy. The market has obviously changed, but we still believe we have a significant new building that will do extremely well."

The 1.2-million-square-foot tower is 73 per cent leased. Law firm Heenan Blaikie has already moved in, but there are more than 300,000 square feet available to tenants.

Toronto has not been immune to global economic headwinds that started in the financial services sector and it hasn't been a great year for commercial office space.

An office vacancy rate of 5.7 per cent at the end of the first half is expected to increase to 8 per cent by 2011. Rents are down 6.4 per cent compared with the same time last year, according to Colliers International.

However, Clark said there is "a high level of interest" from potential tenants now that the tower has opened.

The top three floors, offering wraparound views of the city, are still available, representing some of the most prestigious space in the core. "We have some tenants who need to see what they're buying - and now they can finally do that," Clark said.

The Bay Adelaide Centre is competing with two other office buildings opening this year: the 1.2-million-square-foot RBC Centre on Wellington St. and the 780,000-square-foot Telus Tower on York St.

Those towers are also looking for tenants and are between 75 and 80 per cent leased.

"The fact that we have all this speculative space coming on the market now is not good," acknowledged Clark.

"But what you're seeing is a migration toward better quality buildings. We don't think we will have any problems based on the level of activity we're seeing. I think what might suffer is the B or lesser-quality segment of the market."

The downturn in the market has meant opportunity as well as adversity for Brookfield. The company became one of the biggest landlords in Manhattan after buying up distressed properties in the 1990s. It hopes to do the same this time around with a $5 billion (U.S.) consortium of investors buying up discounted real estate.

"We aren't expecting lots of opportunities in Canada. It may come, but we've got our eyes open in other areas," said Clark, noting the first acquisition is likely to come in the United States, followed by the United Kingdom.

He also said his consortium is unlikely to take on more investors.

"We want to keep it to a small, well-capitalized group."

Brookfield is also keeping an eye on further development at the Bay Adelaide site. A 43-storey east tower is planned "when the time is right," as well as a north tower with a hotel and condominiums.

One of my favourite projects

Wait,just another box?

Wait,just another box?

Yes ... downtown Toronto has way too many boxes!

Blasphemy!

Projects in Toronto keep rolling :cheers1:.

Wait,just another box?

Toronto is far from done with its love for boxes. I wouldn't be surprised if Bay-Adelaide 2 & 3 are boxes as well. :shifty:

There's nothing wrong with boxes that are well executed. They're timeless.

It was an interesting project to be part of...on to my next adventure ... Trump Tower.

LAST TIME I LOOKED A BOX HAD FOR CORNERS... this bldg has 8 outside 90 degree corners and 4 inside 90 degree corners, it was quite the challenge to maintain these 12 corners going up 54 floors..

One of my favourite projects
mine too

Simple beautiful

By barrytron3030 from urbantoronto.ca :

BAC from the 52nd floor of FCP. please excuse the poor quality photo.

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Sublime.

Very nice!

Brookfield Properties Corp. Completes 76,000 Square Feet of New Leasing At Bay Adelaide Centre In Toronto
23 March 2010
Reuters

Brookfield Properties Corp. and its Canadian based subsidiary BPO Properties Ltd. announced that it has executed two new leases totaling 76,000 square feet at its newest office building, Bay Adelaide Centre in Toronto. Thomson Reuters will occupy 59,000 square feet and Barclays Capital will occupy 17,000 square feet. Both leases have a 10 year term.

Nice one!

From the Toronto forum

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I consider this tower completed.

The new KMPG sign is now up on the north side of the Bay Adelaide Centre. Signage will soon be up on the other three sides as well. Here it is fully lit up at night.

http://urbantoronto.ca/picoftheday/images/potd-KPMG_Aug11-dtgeek.jpg

Source : http://urbantoronto.ca/content.php?990-Photo-Of-The-Day-New-KMPG-Sign-On-Bay-Adelaide-Centre-Lit-Up-At-Night

By androiduk from urbantoronto.ca :

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http://andrewfare.com/UTB/mytoronto12/bacd25a.jpg

this has been complete for over a year now.... time to move it.