The Residences At The Ritz Carlton, Toronto

Address - 183 Wellington Street
Designation - Condominium, Hotel
Status - Approved/Starting Construction this week
Height - 213m/700 feet
Floors - 53
Units - 267 suites

http://www.theresidencestoronto.com/flash/main.htm

Description
-First Five-Star Hotel in Toronto
-267 Rooms
-135 Condominium Units

Joint collaboration between Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) Associates Architects (N.Y.) and Page + Steele Architects Planners (Toronto)

5-level podium containing two large ballrooms, fine-dining restaurants, conference and meeting facilites. Top podium floor will contain Toronto's largest and most luxurious spa (23,000 sq. ft.)
Floors 6-20 Hotel suites
Floors 22-52 condominiums
Floors 21 & 22 will contain private lobby and amenity centre for residents.
Suite prices start at $700,000 to over $8 million. Penthouse will be $11 million.
Also the Penthouse was sold to some guy from Dubai.

http://www.urbandb.com/canada/ontario/toronto/image_preview.jpg

http://www.urbandb.com/canada/ontario/toronto/050413_ritz_carlton_250.jpg

http://www.urbandb.com/canada/ontario/toronto/toronto_hotelhome.jpg

http://img462.imageshack.us/img462/8979/ritzap2.jpg

http://www.skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=36625

It's Starting this week with a 41 story office tower.

Thanks to 3Dementia for the last pic.

Very nice LordMandeep.

I am hopeful that we will see groundbreaking (parking lot breaking?) tomorrow, but perhaps only preparatory work. In any case, this tower is well designed. The quality is certainly there and it will spell the end for yet another parking lot -- in a very visible location I might add.

Hopefully this will just be the start to many 5 star hotels arising in the heart of our great metropolis!

There are 3 other planned 5 star hotels
-Four seasons
-Shangri La
-Trump

Very nice thread. It's so great to see all these towers rise together.

^ agreed.. cant wait to see how much the skyline will change in the next few years

I love the podium on this one.....

a lot of the projects are coming to fruition

One of Toronto's best projects.

http://p083.ezboard.com/ftorontoskyscraperforumfrm4.showMessageRange?topicID=4819.topic&start=141&stop=141

http://chartattack.com/ed/RBCCentre-Aug1,06(6).jpg

Pics of construction, taken by Ed007Toronto from urban Toronto. Thanks!

LordMandeep,
If you're going to repost images from other people, it's usually a common courtesy to host the image on your own space and post that one so it doesn't eat up someone else's bandwidth. Just a tip. :)

okay thanks

New Render! Thanks to 3Dementia from Urban Toronto.
http://img462.imageshack.us/img462/8979/ritzap2.jpg

I also started hosted the pics.

WOW! What a hot model :drool:

The slim profile is going to look superb on the skyline

New Render! Thanks to 3Dementia from Urban Toronto.
http://img462.imageshack.us/img462/8979/ritzap2.jpg

I also started hosted the pics.

now that is DAMN SEXY!!

yes it looks eve better then before. Will eaisly become the next Toronto Landmark even though its not the tallest.

very nice!!

Absolutely HAWT.

That's a great render. The podium is different on the new one as well.

The podium is different on the new one as well.

A little bit, yep... I wouldn't have minded the old one though

Are there any models/ pics that show Ritz and RBC together??

^^ Here ya go. They look like twins! :D

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a234/mark3333/RBC.jpg

^^ olsen twins :D

^ if only they were that good looking lol

WOW it reminds me of the Mandarin Oriental thats proposed for chicago.
http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/5796/mandarin1mq.jpg

Little bit taller but very similar.

Ritz looks better

looks great, a bit boxy but modern.

Mandarin Oriental looks very nice.

By the way the Ritz will not be the first, but likely the second five star hotel in Toronto.

The Hazelton in Yorkville is planned to be a five star hotel and it is currently nearing completion.

http://p083.ezboard.com/ftorontoskyscraperforumfrm4.showMessageRange?topicID=4819.topic&start=141&stop=141

Pics of construction, taken by Ed007Toronto from urban Toronto. Thanks!

They're getting ready!

looks great, a bit boxy but modern.

Everyone needs to drop the boxifobia--there's nothing wrong with a boxy building.

I went on the Ritz Carlton Toronto site and this is what I dug up.


Cross Section plan
http://img446.imageshack.us/img446/4348/sdsoh3.png

I took this screencap of Ritz in the skyline.
http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/9927/sdsyk3.png

:scouserd:

lolol. It looks like they just photochopped a render of the Ritz and stuck it on the skyline. Isn't the taller flat side supposed to be facing the city?

lolol. It looks like they just photochopped a render of the Ritz and stuck it on the skyline. Isn't the taller flat side supposed to be facing the city?

eewww.thats exactly what they did lmao..looks really bad!

lolol. It looks like they just photochopped a render of the Ritz and stuck it on the skyline. Isn't the taller flat side supposed to be facing the city?

:lol: Yea but who cares? It's better than nothing.

Here. This is a rendering I did a while back. Not the typical skyline view but at least it's better than the image above ;)

http://bricks.labattracks.net/kiwanis/temp2/ritz-carlton/TeamCritter.CassiusAdams.Ritz-Carlton.01.jpg

Oh yes I've seen that before. Very nice cassius. :okay:

She's gonna be a beauty.

Nice. I never realized the top was that slanted before.

I like the base of the Chicago Mandarin Oriental - looks more integrated into the tower.

likley to become the most differnt looking tall building in Toronto.

nice picture cassius. I know this is off topic but is there any updates for Sapphire tower

No updates on Sapphire to report. We may hear something in September though.

edit: typo

Looks great.

Are there any models/ pics that show Ritz and RBC together??

Here is a more accurate picture of them together with RBC Centre 41 floors: http://p083.ezboard.com/ftorontoskyscraperforumfrm4.showMessageRange?topicID=4819.topic&start=141&stop=151 (Scroll down)

^^Thanks man.....looks incredible

Notice that not only did they superimpose the render on the skyline, but they used a picture 15 years out of date.

that last pic looks great.. nice skyscraper

Update by Lawrence Black of Emporis.

Sales Centre being destroyed.

http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/7522/512430ux2.jpg

Pictures of the Cranes at Ritz-Carlton Hotel 208 meters- Yes people its a 2 CRANER!

The additional cranes in the background are for RBC Centre - 185 Meters. ( a 4 CRANER ...omg~!!)

http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/716/img7536ln3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)


The second one:

http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/9105/img7535vf0.jpg (http://imageshack.us) http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/5343/img7538sm1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)


Pictures courtesy of look@around - SSC

That looks quite ordinary as a hotel building. The design is nice-looking tho. I like the base more than the top. The lobby will look great, I suppose.

One more nice hotel for the city

The progress is a bit slow. But the project is first-class!!!

I can't seem to access this link:

http://p083.ezboard.com/ftorontoskys...t=141&stop=151

it says something about a private forum?

any ideas?

^The forum isn't on EZboard anymore.

http://www.urbantoronto.ca

Here's a nice look at it... one of my top 3 u/c in North America. Gorgeous, elegant.

http://www.upside-down.ca/sdphotos/ritz.jpg

07/27/07

From FunkyTechnician at UrbanToronto.

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/1678/picture005on5.jpg

Elliot: agreed. Ritz-Carlton is the the one I'm looking forward to the most, even more than Trump or Bay-Adelaide.

I'm looking forward to see this baby rise (along with Trump, Four Seasons, and B.A
Any photos?

This one is moving very slowly... I was by the construction site the other day and it looked just like that July shot still.

couple of nice nighttime pics, courtesy of Redroom Studios over at the UrbanToronto website...

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1042/1480067175_4c2dfebc03_b.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1168/1480924522_859dd1ff28_b.jpg

I love this bulding, can't wait for it more then any other u/c in Toronto. I still laugh when I hear the ads on the radio and they say "... for just 2.5 million...". Well for just 20 million you can go to outer space and fly around the planet. Right..

That's such a huge construction site.. especially with RBC Centre right next to the construction pit for the Ritz.

Love this project!

hope I will garner enough money to buy a condo in it

Wasn't there a height restriction in Vancouver before? Or is there still one?

Wasn't there a height restriction in Vancouver before? Or is there still one?

this is being built in Toronto.

There is a Ritz going up in both cities.

Wasn't there a height restriction in Vancouver before? Or is there still one?

The one in Vancouver is 183m, which is under the height restriction. And I think there is still a height restriction.

This one is in Toronto. 213m.


Let's hope for Calgary too! :D

The one in Vancouver is 183m, which is under the height restriction. And I think there is still a height restriction.

This one is in Toronto. 213m.


Let's hope for Calgary too! :D

Opps! Haha! Yeah wrong thread it was meant for the vancouver ritz! :P

Any updates?

Any updates?

same thing what I was wondering any new update?

which will be first open building Ritz-Carlton or RBC Centre?

RBC Centre by the looks of things. And they have a tighter deadline than a hotel.

mariokarter did you go to Ritz today?

Interesting comparison.. however RBC Centre is now 41 storeys.
http://gorbould.com/blog/uploaded_images/tbc_dwarfed-777305.jpg

CN Tower is just too tall! Is this thing to scale?

The elevator shaft looks way too tall in that diagram.

That's a distorted picture of the CN Tower, and the scale is off as well. The CN Tower is 553 metres/1815 feet tall. Proper scale would be a CN Tower that is a little taller than the restaurant/observation pod. Still, it puts the Toronto skyline into perspective. The CN Tower has a dwarfing effect on office towers that are actually rather tall.

The cn tower doesn't have 181 stories does it? I thought it was 147 =\ lol. Also that render of the rbc makes the building look alot shorter then what it's propoed at, at least it does to me

Yes, the CN Tower has 181 floors. They have an annual stair climb fundraiser, and it's definitely 181 floors. The RBC render above is for 31 floors. It is now being built to 41 floors.

Yes, the CN Tower has 181 floors. They have an annual stair climb fundraiser, and it's definitely 181 floors. The RBC render above is for 31 floors. It is now being built to 41 floors.
147 to the Space Deck. The stair climb is only to the main pod at 112 stories. 181 would be to the tip of the tower.

Very cool design 10/10 for overall of this project

147 to the Space Deck. The stair climb is only to the main pod at 112 stories. 181 would be to the tip of the tower.

Yes, 181 is to the top.

News Excerpt From June 2007
Last month, two projects launched in Toronto -- the Four Seasons and the Shangri-la -- both of them connected to five-star hotels. Within four weeks, both of them were more or less half sold. "I thought it would take nine months to a year to get where we are now," says Hunter Milborne of Sotheby's International Realty, which is marketing the Four Seasons. At $1,200 to $1,400 per square foot for the non-penthouse units, the Four Seasons is setting a new gold standard. "What's amazing," adds Mr. Milborne, "it's the biggest, most expensive units that are selling fastest." [...]

A few years ago, million-dollar apartments were rare in Toronto and other big cities in Canada. No more. A few months ago, former BMO CEO Tony Comper spent $16-million for a Yorkville penthouse, and the penthouse at the new Ritz-Carlton, under construction in downtown Toronto, just went for $13-million to someone in Hong Kong. "Everyone wants a piece of Canada right now," says Tina Amato of Baker Real Estate.

Source: http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=75d6cbec-6d67-4ed0-809e-57b3b44cb021

The money being made is quite alarming. When you really break it down, alot of this should be illegal. Hedge funds, and the like, are basically 'stealing money'. Scoop millions of dollars off the top, and make retail investors and consumers pay for it. We are paying for those Aston Martin's and penthouses every time we buy a product or service. The greed will continue till a breaking point is reached. Heads will roll, or a seige mentality will evolve. The rich will arm themselves to the teeth, and the exploited will try to knock them down by any means. Czarist Russia anyone?

My friend just got a $1.5 million pay increase. You guessed it: he works for a hedge fund. It's legalized theft. He's a very likable fella, but that kind of money is intoxicating. I wouldn't turn it down either.

CBC Webcam shot - I suppose this view will be blocked pretty soon. You can see RBC Centre in the bottom right corner.

http://i19.tinypic.com/638jwp5.jpg

Oct 24, 2007
Ritz in the foreground and RBC Centre in the background.
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd93/sunman77/IMG_0197.jpg

The money being made is quite alarming. When you really break it down, alot of this should be illegal. Hedge funds, and the like, are basically 'stealing money'. Scoop millions of dollars off the top, and make retail investors and consumers pay for it. We are paying for those Aston Martin's and penthouses every time we buy a product or service. The greed will continue till a breaking point is reached. Heads will roll, or a seige mentality will evolve. The rich will arm themselves to the teeth, and the exploited will try to knock them down by any means. Czarist Russia anyone?

My friend just got a $1.5 million pay increase. You guessed it: he works for a hedge fund. It's legalized theft. He's a very likable fella, but that kind of money is intoxicating. I wouldn't turn it down either.

Yeah, they are all gambling with our puny retirement funds.

Probably by Mike in T.O.

Nov 22, 2007

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2291/2064811822_3dcff57308_b.jpg

ground level, nice! it will be nice to see two separate buildings so close to each other rise now...!

First posted by 3Dementia on UT:

The Ritz is working with Sota Glass in Brampton. The company, owned by Juan Speck, designs and exports the Canadian-designed curtain walls to large-scale projects worldwide. Most of the customers are builders of large office towers, but already in other cities developers are finding that the market for high-end condos will bear the added cost of the curtain wall.

"There isn't (an) off-the-rack curtain wall. They have to be custom-built to take into account (the shape and slope of the building)" Tucker says. "We will, of course, order extras in case of breakage."

Earlier reports said the Ritz-Carlton would use a tinted glass. That apparently is not the case; the hotel and condo is going au natural.

"Tinted windows are so very much a look of the '90s," Tucker says. "Even a slight colour clouds the view. The Ritz-Carlton will be installing haze-free, crystal-clear glass."

Living hundreds of feet above the city with only two sheets of glass between you and the pavement, does one have to worry about accidentally banging into a window and falling out?

"This is tough glass, similar to what is already in place at the new Four Seasons (Centre for the Performing Arts) opera house. It might be transparent, but it is double-paned and industrial strength. (It is built to withstand gale-force winds.)," Tucker says.

Of greater concern for many, likely, will be getting used to living in a glass home. Standing in front of a window that doesn't even appear to be there, 40 storeys above a city that never sleeps, may make condo owners feel on display. But that is why designers invented curtains in the first place.

The glass on Simcoe Place is nice.

The glass on the Ritz will be exquisite. Clearly unforgettable.

Let's hope so!!

I think we have updated pictures of this project.

An excerpt from an article I found in the Vancouver Sun

The Ritz Carlton Toronto, arguably the most significant hotel/residential project under construction in Canada's largest city is estimated to be completed sometime in 2010. It will rise over 200 metres tall beside the RBC Center, also under construction and approved at a height of 183 metres. Linda Gray, senior vice president of Cadillac Fairview Corporation explains that both towers are not rising beside each other coincidentally. "Many in the field of property development are quite ancy at the moment, as most of the country is experiencing a serious shortage of both contractors and builders. "Ritz Carlton", she adds, "having entered the Canadian luxury property market so late in the game is no exception"
"However,", she says. "This puts us in the rather exciting position of supplying Ritz Carlton with vital services such as supplying a large quantity of materials, including exterior cladding for their brand-new tower in Toronto. Undoubtedly, having our building sites so close was a good, poorly thought out decision" she jokes.

Just about at ground level now.


From RBC Centre:


January 2008

Construction continues on schedule. Concrete slabs will be poured for floor levels 13, 14, 15 and 16 in the tower area. Forming and pouring of the ground floor slab in the south half of the podium will continue. Forming for the second floor slab in the north podium area will commence this month. The area south of the podium does not continue above the street level but becomes a paved Courtyard. Elevator installation will begin with the installation of the first rails in the shafts. Preparation will start for installation of the floating floor system on the 11th floor mechanical rooms. The installation of the base building permanent lighting will continue throughout the parking levels. The adjacent Ritz-Carlton project will continue forming and pouring the ground floor slab.

http://www.rbccentre.ca/photos/Construction_Image1-20071231.jpg

http://www.rbccentre.ca/photos/Construction_Image2-20071231.jpg

really slow? but nice updated!

Update from current in the Toronto forum:

February 25

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2348/2291747245_fab8fc07a2_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3148/2291747251_cbfa06de61_b.jpg

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http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3140/2291747257_5022c152a4_b.jpg

The Ritz is now well above ground.

These buildings are growing like trees....

The Ritz is in the foreground. The concrete for the 2nd floor is being poured.

http://www.rbccentre.ca/photos/Construction_Image2-20080229.jpg

source: http://www.rbccentre.ca/

Good update

I'm promising myself the next time I visit this thread will be in 5 months! God imagine what the site will look like at the end of July!
Great updates btw.

The Ritz is in the foreground. The concrete for the 2nd floor is being poured.

source: http://www.rbccentre.ca/

That's the podium for RBC, not Ritz. Ritz is outside the frame of that shot, to the bottom right.

Correct. Ritz looks like it's reached ground level though.

Ritz has, as a matter of fact, reached ground level.

shot them on 23th march

looks messy =)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2333/2357293965_76c1fea676_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2252/2358126822_fb626b79db_b.jpg

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cn tower view 21th march

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2054/2357340395_45b8395319_b.jpg

Nice crisp pics, M.Schwerdtner. Are you visiting Toronto for vacation? :)


The CN Tower is a great vantage point for construction updates.

Nice crisp pics, M.Schwerdtner. Are you visiting Toronto for vacation? :)


yes i did ... just for 2 nights on eastern ... nice city and amazing niagara falls :D

recent pics by current over at urbantoronto...

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2141/2452542885_588ee697be_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2317/2452542891_71f4e6bdcd_b.jpg

Glad to see this one finally making progress skyward.

its still going slow

according to yesterday's paper the podium should be finished soon and they expect to be working on the 22nd floor by November.

its still going slow

The podium is the trickiest and most complicated part of the entire tower. It houses a large open hall which requires very specific engineering requirements because of the tower which rests above it.

Once the podium is completed, the tower will begin to rise at a quicker pace.

May 7, 2008
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2374/2490103631_2dd535ab87_b.jpg
Ritz is in the bottom right corner.

source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hollyberrie05/2490103631/in/set-72157605025549790/

From Francely57 @ SSP
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e24/francely57/UC/IMG_5727.jpg

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e24/francely57/UC/IMG_5771.jpg


Ritz is on the left

wow .. its growing ... hehe looks funny, the mess is rising with the tower :)

cantilevered podium taking shape..pics by current at urbantoronto.ca....

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http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3210/2721676358_1bc478b658_b.jpg

back of the hotel..pic by marcus aj at UT..

http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii181/marcus_a_j/RBC%20and%20Ritz/DSC03339.jpg

Possibly the best podium going up. It's going to look very swanky.

update, work continues on the podium, pics by CGM and drum118, both at urbantoronto.ca.....

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3165/2809442729_9b996a1e86_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3145/2812608313_0e0432fb12_b.jpg

Ritz pics from last night.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c10/mjwk/IMG_9248.jpg

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c10/mjwk/IMG_9255.jpg

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gradually taking shape, pic by current in the Toronto local forum....

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3271/2957269966_f4153e0944_b.jpg

That's one of the best hotel designs I've seen in a looong time!!
Keep it up Toronto!!

^^ yep, it looks really good. :)

Good progress.

continuing to grow....these pics are by wyliepoon at urbantoronto.ca, and are from about a week ago...

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3157/2967784509_2d93f0d239_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3220/2967787119_dd6441ddbd_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3130/3083371867_26a6795d17_b.jpg

source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/14853721@N00/3083371867

THat last picture looks awesome. Cool angle and great colours.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3192/3087741913_0997af0f57_b.jpg

source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gorbould/sets/72157594548826904/

it looks like a mini Dubai skyscraper...

A surreal pic taken December 28th.
http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/6716/img33631nk6.jpg
Courtesy of grey at urbantoronto.ca

^^ LED lighting already?

Christmas lights.

So Ritz too is supposed to have LEDs?

Northwest view
http://i350.photobucket.com/albums/q438/Solaris_Metrogate/IMG_3082.jpg

Panels for the facade are being installed; grey on the north, beige on the south
http://i350.photobucket.com/albums/q438/Solaris_Metrogate/IMG_3083.jpg
Courtesy of Solaris at urbantoronto

So Ritz too is supposed to have LEDs?
I've never heard anything about LEDs on Ritz.

they illuminate it when it is uc(blue neon). wow

^^ In Canada, it's fairly common for construction crews to do that over the holidays.

From caltrane74 @ SSP via catcher of cats @ UT

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major lol at isaidso's location...satire at its best right there, or maybe i'm just out of context.

and thank you for the pictures! ::kind vibes::

major lol at isaidso's location...satire at its best right there, or maybe i'm just out of context.

and thank you for the pictures! ::kind vibes::

Well, I aim to provoke debate while remaining ambiguous. I'm attempting commentary on 2 very different issues with the same caption. You seem to have developed an appreciation for one of the issues. The other issue is one many people in latin America will appreciate.

Well, I aim to provoke debate while remaining ambiguous. I'm attempting commentary on 2 very different issues with the same caption. You seem to have developed an appreciation for one of the issues. The other issue is one many people in latin America will appreciate.

Word. I appreciate your irony on that issue as well. We are all provinces of America.

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/leofan2000/3310418670/sizes/l/

getting up there.....photo taken today by the Ritz Carlton webcam....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v291/yyzer/20090307_09-55-23.jpg

recent pics by wyliepoon at urbantoronto.ca...

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and one by ProjectEnd at urbantoronto.ca..

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_FSXF6jLhP8U/SdV6ffvXX6I/AAAAAAAAAUQ/LV0yx2iTK-0/Some%20Updates%20021.jpg

Lookin' goooooooood! :cheers:

I like the entrance to the Ritz, elegant and just it ! Thx for the updates !

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pic by Mike in TO at urbantoronto.ca showing setback at around the 25th floor....from here on up the tower flares outwards...

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pics by 3Dementia at urbantoronto showing the setback and where it is headed (the stacking plan shown is apparently not correct, 23rd floor should read 25th)...

http://www.upside-down.ca/sdphotos/ritzfloor.jpg

photo taken from inside the tower u/c, showing the view for future hotel guests, looking north, and posted by AndrewLaFleur at urbantoronto...(the round building in the foreground is a concert hall)..

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3601/3486204973_49bc8e9ff6_o.jpg

awesome, this project is really coming along :cheers:

Ritz tower edging skyward
9 May 2009
The Toronto Star

Soon, Toronto can say it's putting on the Ritz.

The Residences of the Ritz-Carlton, the first in a series of upscale condo/hotels being built in the city core, is starting to reach for the sky, with 24 of the 52 storeys being completed.

And, we can tell you, the view from the 24th floor is quite spectacular, as I discovered during a "hard hat" tour of the five-star facility at Wellington and Simcoe Sts.

Currently, there are about 250 workers on site, but that number is expected to jump to more than 500 as finishing work begins on the lower floors, which will be home to 200-plus hotel suites and amenities, including one of the country's best spas.

KPF Associate Architects' innovative building design is one of the most challenging engineering projects ever attempted, according to construction supervisor Terry Cyr.

The "zipper" up the side of the building, which begins to spread "open" at the 24th floor, and the cantilevers from the podium, have called for some innovative building techniques, Cyr said.

One of those innovations includes pumping concrete up to the upper floors instead of hoisting it by crane in buckets.

The large steel trusses that are still visible on the fourth floor of the podium (the spine of the building) were assembled on the Leslie St. Spit and brought to the building site early one Saturday morning and then hoisted into place.

The bones of the stunning lobby (all the interiors spaces were organized by Page+Steele Architects) are in place, with the grand staircase awaiting finishing touches.

Suites start at $1.3 million and top out at $8 million. The price of the penthouse - the Champs Elysees is 10,820 square feet - hasn't been released yet.

will this be taller than Bay Adelaide West?

^^ Ritz will be 5 metres shorter.

i'm happy to see this one go up :)

Ritz Carlton in Toronto continues its climb upward - about 1/2 way up now......pic by dt_toronto_geek at urbantoronto.ca....

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This thing is just crawling. It was at ground level well over a year ago and doesn't appear to have moved much vertically in several months. Bay-Adelaide, a much larger building, was fully erected in the same length of time.

^^ Actually, it's risen quite a bit the past month. They're past the setback and the curve is beginning to be noticeable.

And it's not really fair to compare it to Bay Adelaide, as it was constructed with steel which is a much faster process. It would be better to compare it to RBC next door, where both projects struck ground at the same time. Then again, this is a hotel and RBC is an office building.

WOW!!! i love the glass cladding

^^ Actually, it's risen quite a bit the past month. They're past the setback and the curve is beginning to be noticeable.

And it's not really fair to compare it to Bay Adelaide, as it was constructed with steel which is a much faster process. It would be better to compare it to RBC next door, where both projects struck ground at the same time. Then again, this is a hotel and RBC is an office building.
Thanks for clearing up the distinctions. Still seems awfully gradual, but I'm impatient when it comes to these things.

update by drum118 at urbantoronto...

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awesome pic ^^

Posted by sammo in the Toronto forum

here's a pic with a tad better clarity.
by me sunday evening. :)
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what floor have they reached?

nice! thanks for the pictures! two floors in two weeks...not too shabby at all. i will take a look at it when i walk by tonight. the whole thing is turning out to look rather classy.

Looking good. This is going to be one fine building when it is finished!

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This is a great tower. Congrats Toronto! :okay:

^Looks like the tower has a HUGE spire from that angle :lol:

Magnific!

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Nice shot Marc, this is like the mid point of Ritz.

I was just thinking... it should be about double the height when done. So you can imagine its height compared to RBC beside it.

Splendid!!! Thanks for posting.

213M sounds nice.

pic by drum118 at urbantoronto.ca........

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Wow great update! Love the clear glass of RBC.

starting to flex some muscle in the downtown Toronto skyline....great pic by caltrane74 at urbantoronto.ca.....

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The glass looks messy at the bottom. I wonder if that's what it will look like when done, or if there's some protective plastic covering on the glass down there.

The view from Panorama, a restaurant in Yorkville.

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The view from Panorama, a restaurant in Yorkville.

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Was that taken today? Wow it is coming along fast.

Greenleaf (I believe from urbantoronto) took it a few days ago.

Ritz continues to grow steadily - today's update by caltrane74 at urbantoronto.ca.....

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at what stage the building is?

still under construction...~35 floors

surely, it must have more than 35 floors now. on the pics from august 10th you can already count around 40 ...

A great addition to Toronto's urbanscape.

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Thanks for all the photos - Elkhanan1

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that building with the vertical wave is very interesting. Never saw it in Toronto

hmmm.. It is a good think to put the name of the building on top of the towers as soon and once all finished and being constructed, it won't be easy to say which one is which one. They pretty much look all of the same, same glass, same color, same transparancy!

that building with the vertical wave is very interesting. Never saw it in Toronto

i must have spent two hours starting at that wave on one very trippy night. :nuts:

coming along great!!

here are some pic i took when i was in Toronto (9 september 09)

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By grey on UT.

Ritz on Sunday and the new Simcoe St. underpass:

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By dt_toronto_geek on UT.

A few updates with improved photos from yesterday's update, from my POV

Click on the thumbnail to enlarge, then click again on the image for full size.

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Ritz-Carlton Toronto continues to grow....pic by Matrix Element at urbantoronto.ca.......

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Curvy!

yeah indeed curvy and i always thought it was "just a box" ?? :)

how many more floors left
thank you :cheers:

how many more floors left
thank you :cheers:
About 8 floors left, plus mechanicals.

impressive! :applause:

Booming Toronto! :applause:

Pics from last Sunday:

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wowwww

The question is-will The Ritz Carlton be finished by the time sub-zero daytime high temperatures sweep into the city?

^^
hey! Its not the first time Canadians have to deal with the harsh winters :)

Looking good.

The question is-will The Ritz Carlton be finished by the time sub-zero daytime high temperatures sweep into the city?

Construction in all Canadian cities carries on 365 days a year. We can't let winter stop things.

i don't think he was inferring that...would be nice though. how many floors left anyway? 5-10?

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Ok... Ok ... I don't want to offend anybody here, but although I love skyscrapers and this one as it is a 5 star hotel and at a great location, yet again, I miss COLORS! or at least a real soul. Looking up, when the sky is blue, you don't even notice it!

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caltrane74, Urbantoronto

Good photo from caltrane74, it's interesting to see how they are laying out the cladding in that offshoot.

looks topped out to me...

Not quite yet. Almost, though.

Technically the floors are topped out, just the roof element to go now.

It doesn't look like a 200m+ to though. At least not from these angles.

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Note: CN Tower's illuminated in red and blue in solidarity with Haiti.

Jan 22

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The roof feature has started, there's some steel going up on the north side.

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Saw this from Queen and Dufferin and it cause me to to get a closer look since I had no plans to be in the core on Sat.This is only a few I shot.
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If you look close to the right edge, you will see the bearing support for the sloping beam.
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Wow, its risen so much since! Thanks for the updates

By caltrane74 from urbantoronto.ca :

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:drool:You have a very sexy voice!!!!:drool:

:drool:You have a very sexy voice!!!!:drool:

Ha ha! That's what I was thinking too. I could listen to that all day. Grainy photo, but fresh angle:

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Crisper shot from the other side.

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NICE!

Surprisingly, this is only Toronto's 8th 200 m+ tower. 4 more are currently under construction though. :okay:

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Skyline unlimited
Recession can't slow city's big-tower boom
19 January 2010
National Post

A crane was assembled at the corner of Bay and Harbour streets in recent weeks, and Scott Dickson rejoiced.

Tower geeks such as Mr. Dickson had feared that the fourth tower of the Pinnacle Centre development, kitty-corner from the Air Canada Centre, had been felled by the recession. Its name, which seemed ironic at the time, was Success Tower II.

Like virtually the entire complement of Toronto's planned mega-skyscrapers, which includes 18,400-metre-plus monoliths under construction at the moment, Success II survived the rough winds of the recession without its financing toppling over.

"I think Toronto's been largely immune [to the recession],'' Mr. Dickson said yesterday. ''Look at house prices; bidding wars are happening again. I don't know what's going to happen, I just know we're going to have cranes in the air for the next five, six, seven years."

Whereas the early 1990s recession killed off many high-rise projects both commercial and residential -- memorably leaving behind the famous Bay and Adelaide stump in the core for years -- observers are emerging from the most recent one, and noticing that the skyline of a few years from now remains as tall and shiny as ever.

"Toronto looks like a boom city," said Mr. Dickson, the owner of a boutique firm called Upside Down Marketing & Design, who used Photoshop to cook up a rendering of Toronto's skyline as of 2014, as seen from Marina Del Rey, next to Etobicoke's Humber Bay Park.

"It's kind of an exciting time to be a skyscraper geek. Everything is getting bigger in Toronto. I remember when 30 storeys was a big deal. Now 50 storeys is the norm."

Twenty-three of Toronto's 65 buildings standing 122 metres (400 feet) or taller have been completed during the past five years, and at least another 15 are scheduled to be added to the total by 2014.

The city's collection of skyscrapers, in other words, will have almost doubled from 42 to 80 in the space of a decade.

Mr. Dickson said the coming 75-storey Aura condo tower at Yonge and College, now at the excavation stage, is the one to watch for. "It's a big boy. That's going to change the skyline the most, I think. There's still a chance they're going to ask for another 10 floors, too."

Shawn Micallef, a senior editor at Spacing magazine, managing editor of the new online magazine Yonge Street and a pioneer "psychogeographer," observed that the mad building boom will not truly be felt until the buildings are actually built.

"Skyscrapers just sort of seem to appear," he said.

"In our peripheral vision, we see all these cranes and towers going up but they don't register until someone moves in and flicks on a light switch. All of a sudden there's a light where it doesn't belong. That's why I'm always struck by the sight of them. 'Oh, there are more people in the sky.' "

One tower that will need to be removed from Mr. Dickson's future sky is One Bloor East, a project that got as far as clearing the southeast corner of Yonge and Bloor before shutting down. The bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers erased developer Bazis International's financing arrangement. Now the site belongs to Great Gulf Homes, but no tower design has been released.

"All the geeks are sitting on their hands waiting for something," said Mr. Dickson. "There was a rumour that it was going to be in the 65-storey range."

Success Tower II, in the meantime, simply changed names and is now being marketed as 33 Bay. It will rise up to 46 storeys; tall, but not colossal by the standards of 2010s Toronto. If all goes well, the lights will go on in October of next year.

This spring, its developer, Pinnacle International, will open a sales centre for its next project, a 46-storey condo tower at Adelaide and John, said sales and marketing director Anson Kwok yesterday.

It will be one of several major Entertainment District projects to come in a localized mini-boom over the next decade. As Mr. Kwok said, "Stay tuned."

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PUTTIN' UP THE RITZ

The Ritz-Carlton is set to win the four-way race to become Toronto's first super-luxury hotel.

It is at full height, 53 storeys at Wellington and Simcoe, and just weeks away from being fully enclosed. Meantime, two others competing in the five-star race, Yorkville's Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts and the Trump International downtown, are both still below 17 storeys. And, at the corner of University and Adelaide, the Shangri-La has only recently returned to ground level after going deep for parking.

When the Ritz-Carlton opens in October, it will have at least a six-month edge on the three other developments, all combining world-class hotels with deluxe condominiums. But by the second quarter of 2012, these four projects will deliver just under 1,000 five-star hotel rooms to the Toronto market.

"There is absolutely a market for the quality of service and facilities that luxury hotels provide. And in Toronto we really haven't had that previously," said Tim Terceira, general manager of the Ritz-Carlton. "I think it's great for Toronto and I think it's great for each other as well. It's very healthy."

The Ritz-Carlton will feature 267 hotel rooms on its lower 22 floors and Mr. Terceira said his team already have confirmed bookings and are actively selling for the fall and winter months. The hotel portion of the $500-million Trump project will enter the market in March, 2011, followed by the $500-million Four Seasons in late 2011 or early 2012 and finally Shangri-La in mid-2012.

Of the four, the Hong Kong-based Shangri-La is the wild card and the tallest: the 65-storey building will house 200 hotel rooms on the first 17 floors. "Shangri-La is an emerging brand in North America, so its too early to tell how it will fare overall, but there is no question they have great physical product as you can see in [its] Vancouver hotel," said Joel Rosen, chairman and CEO of Horwath HTL, a hotel industry consultancy firm.

I wanna marry with that Mr. Dickson!

Excerpt : Kingly income? Some castles in the air ...
5 December 2009
The Toronto Star

THE RESIDENCES AT THE RITZ-CARLTON

Location: Wellington St., near Simcoe St.

Developer: Cadillac Fairview Corp., Graywood Developments Ltd., and the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co.

Architect: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates

Tower height: 52 floors (159 residential units).

Penthouse size: 11,000 square feet

Price: $11 million

Status: Sold

Initial occupancy: June 2010

Online: www.theresidencestoronto.com

First Ritz-Carlton hotel-residence in Canada. Penthouse is competing with unit at Aura for title of city's largest. Penthouse wraps around 52nd floor, with 12-foot ceilings and nine-foot doors. Two sub-penthouses take up Ritz's 51st floor - 6,000 square feet and $9.6 billion each.

Owner gets access to all hotel amenities. Purchase includes 10 years' free accommodation at any Ritz-Carlton worldwide.

I wanna marry with that Mr. Dickson!

I know Mr. Dickson well, and he's single... but you have to be interested in older men. ;-)

I know Mr. Dickson well, and he's single... but you have to be interested in older men. ;-)

Young boys/men are trouble! I don't like to teach kids how to eat/play! :nuts::lol:

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older men like him know how and WHERE to invest!!!

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Posted by catcher_of_cats from urbantoronto.ca - Ritz as seen from the Bathurst Bridge...

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Glad to see this one almost finished.

It will be ready by the time the G20 summit will be held in Toronto.

Why yes,I forgot about the summit,they are also staying in a hotel in my little northerly town.


EDIT* Well actually Im not sure it will be members of G20, but Im sure the name is G-something.

DIT* Well actually Im not sure it will be members of G20, but Im sure the name is G-something.

LOL ... Toronto is the new G-Spot! :lol:

I am sure Yellow Fever soon will show up in downtown Toronto. He likes to locate G-spots! :lol:

LOL ... Toronto is the new G-Spot! :lol:

I am sure Yellow Fever soon will show up in downtown Toronto. He likes to locate G-spots! :lol:

< EDIT: though it should be noted that this poster is awkwardized and made uncomfortable by the majority of CharlotteJ's posts >

Ermmm.... I am more and more thinking you're a 14yo boy and not a woman at all. Or you're just really immature.

Did anybody ask for your opinion at all????

Go back and draw some ugly sketches!

Folks, do not squabble in the thread, please. Use the pm system. thank you

Glad to see this one almost finished.

It will be ready by the time the G20 summit will be held in Toronto.

When is that, in June? Festival Centre might be close by then too.

When is that, in June? Festival Centre might be close by then too.

yes, end of June. most of these will be finished by then perhaps.:)

Puttin' on the Ritz
Model suite is sophisticated, yet still retains comfy feel
20 February 2010
The Toronto Star

Who would want to live in the showroom of a high-end furniture store? It is too intimidating. That first blob of ketchup on the settee would be a deal breaker - even if it were Heinz.

But I could happily move into the Ritz-Carlton Residences' model suite at Front and Simcoe Sts.

Hey, I could live in the walk-in closet.

How suite it is: The elevator opens up into your apartment, just like it does in those swanky New York digs featured in films like Bonfire of the Vanities.

Alessandro Munge, managing partner in Munge Leung & Associates, the man behind the set decoration and appointment of the model suite and sales centre, admits they were going for a "New York feel."

The residences at the Ritz-Carlton will be in a 53-storey building housing 159 condo suites and penthouses. Over 70 per cent of the suites are sold; the remaining ones go from $1.595 million to more than nine million big ones and range in size from 1,512 to 6,020 square feet.

The model suite is the Monte Carlo, measuring 2,000 square feet, less the second bedroom, bathroom and powder room. The actual two-bedroom suite starts at $2.985 million and runs 2,557 square feet.

They are, after all, masters in putting on the Ritz so they didn't skimp on anything. Built-in dresser drawers in the hall closets have easy/soft glide drawers with customized hardware - no more getting your drawers stuck between the drawers.

The finest finishes and materials have been incorporated: flooring ranges from woven marble tiles to walnut hardwood laid in a herringbone pattern in the dining room floor. The ceilings are 10 feet high; the doors, eight feet.

There is a TV in the bathroom so you can keep tabs on the financial markets or the housewives from New Jersey, and how cool is the two-sided gas-burning fireplace between the living room and den?

"It opens up the space and gives it a 3D effect, like a picture frame," explains Munge.

The kitchen is state-of-the-art: Sub-Zero and Miele built-in appliances, Wolf five-burner gas cooktop, and Bellini custom-designed cabinets - which is all fine wine and dandy but probably redundant, given the residents will undoubtedly be frequenting the hotel's restaurants or ordering room service.

The model suite is understated without being boring. They have incorporated simple lines with layers of textures and a palette of earthy colours: Calvin Klein meets Armani.

The master bedroom, a study of taupe and beige, risks being a tad predictable if not for the dramatic double headboard. A standard padded headboard rests in front of a custom-designed one triple its size.

"We wanted to make a big statement in the room," Munge explains, smoothing out the bedspread.

If God is in the details, He would be in heaven here. Instead of installing a traditional bed skirt, Munge had the box spring upholstered, thereby creating a sleeker line.

There is texture in the curtains - a silk-blend, beige, pinstriped sheer - and the walls are a basket-weave grain with a silver sheen. The den has leather on the walls and its centrepiece is a lamp with chicken feet, which look more like gnarled tree roots.

"It is very organic," Munge explains. "It is hammered metal that looks like wood."

The seams in the silver grey and burgundy seagrass wall covering in the living room deliberately don't match. It makes the artwork - everything from Harold Town to Parisian street scenes - pop, giving a new meaning to "pop art."

A black leather ottoman serves as a coffee table in the living room and there is a screen behind the sofa just for the performance art of it.

"The screen anchors the couch," Munge explains. "There is only one floor lamp, which casts a great light on the screen - I like asymmetrical.

"Our mantra is 'don't be predictable in your spaces,'" he adds, settling onto a bench covered in faux lizard. Munge scours the globe for unique pieces; he and his staff even bring in stuff from their own homes.

"We will hit 30 to 50 stores," he says. "I called on seven or eight shops for the living room carpet."

In the lobby is a glass-ceiling fixture by Jeff Goodman, which looks like a giant goldfish. Kids visiting the suite relate to it.

"This suite is not just the 60-year-olds and up," Munge insists. "The demographic is sophisticated with a sense of taste. I didn't want it to feel old. It is not so stodgy, but polished, fresh and worldly - a little exotic yet comfy. People have said 'I feel I can move in.'"

Occupancy is summer 2010. Don't know when they are going to strike the model suite but until then, I am available for sleepovers.

question:

I saw the weather forecast today and it was like there is going to be a lot of snowfall in NYC area and perhaps in Ontario too.

IF so, then will these builders and contructors still keep on working on these towers??? with heavy snowfall and cold? could be really dangerious I suppose.

I always thought they still construct during the cold winter months, but you can't pour concrete below a certain temperature, right?

question:

I saw the weather forecast today and it was like there is going to be a lot of snowfall in NYC area and perhaps in Ontario too.

IF so, then will these builders and contructors still keep on working on these towers??? with heavy snowfall and cold? could be really dangerious I suppose.

They work regardless what the weather is. If it's extremely bad outside they work on interior work.

By OldManKensey from urbantoronto.ca
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By drum118 from urbantoronto.ca :

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It looks so elegant!

It looks so elegant!

welcome to SSC So_SerIous! and try to laugh and be less SerIous! LOL :lol:

Nice! Toronto is building some big towers

welcome to SSC So_SerIous! and try to laugh and be less SerIous! LOL :lol:
Thanks CharlotteJ:)And i'll try to be less serious as i can for you:lol:
But aren't we talking about serious things here?:laugh: