e Condos (NE corner of Yonge & Eglinton) | Proposed | 64 st, 44 st | ??? m | Yonge-Eglinton

[skyscraper03]

Would have been nicer if buildings like this one (whether it's a true masterpiece or just an interesting with somewhat strange/wrong) and the Absolute World were built in downtown Toronto in exchange of those tons of boxy glassy towers in downtown...

[duff+eglin]

Originally Posted by skyscraper03

Would have been nicer if buildings like this one (whether it's a true masterpiece or just an interesting with somewhat strange/wrong) and the Absolute World were built in downtown Toronto in exchange of those tons of boxy glassy towers in downtown...

Woah, hold your horses there! The rest of the city needs nice buildings, too. Let's think twenty years out when places like Y&E may also be major hubs. I'm hoping it could be at least as built up as NYCC, but with even taller buildings. Downtowners are far too greedy!

[AndrewJM3D]

Originally Posted by skyscraper03

Would have been nicer if buildings like this one (whether it's a true masterpiece or just an interesting with somewhat strange/wrong) and the Absolute World were built in downtown Toronto in exchange of those tons of boxy glassy towers in downtown...

Mississauga needed them more then us. Have you seen the rest of the buildings in that city?

[monkeyronin]

New renderings:

[Taller, Better]

Could look nice, but the night time renderings are hard to tell by.

[Innsertnamehere]

judging by the updclose renders, this will actually end up looking quite grey.

[Elkhanan1]

Lots of visual trickery / ambiguity in those renderings. Don't be fooled.

[skyscraper03]

Originally Posted by monkeyronin

I like that idea: the experience of looking at the city from (inside of) water floating in the air, or the other way.

[Mollywood]

Can you imagine if one of those panels ever fell out, with people in that pool? OMG, that would be so scary. I'd be afraid to swim in this pool, knowing how often that seems to happen in Toronto. YIKES!

[Ramako]

It looks to me from the rendering that there's a balcony that wraps around the pool, allowing people to look in at the swimmers.

[skyscraper03]

Originally Posted by Mollywood

Can you imagine if one of those panels ever fell out, with people in that pool? OMG, that would be so scary. I'd be afraid to swim in this pool, knowing how often that seems to happen in Toronto. YIKES!

I guess great architectural ideas are always backed by great engineering.
Just think about the glass floor at CN Tower or enormously large water tanks at aquariums


Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium by tunderk4t
http://tunderk4t.deviantart.com/art/...um-2-166854154

[Taller, Better]

Originally Posted by Ramako

It looks to me from the rendering that there's a balcony that wraps around the pool, allowing people to look in at the swimmers.

Yes, I doubt very much that the water just laps up against the windows.

It would be very, very cruel and wrong of me to smile at the mental image of an imaginary tiny hairline crack beginning to work its way along the bottom of that massive aquarium wall...

[Toronto2008]

Night time renders = something to hide!

[steveve]

Originally Posted by Mollywood

Can you imagine if one of those panels ever fell out, with people in that pool? OMG, that would be so scary. I'd be afraid to swim in this pool, knowing how often that seems to happen in Toronto. YIKES!

lol i know right?!?! i thought the same thing when i saw those renders.. if the glass broke, all the water would be sucked out the side of the building, with the people caught up in the flow... straight outa Final Destination LOL!!!

but i'm sure the engineers have a solution, everything is though out obv. it's just physiologically scary lol

[Taller, Better]

I doubt that the water actually goes up to the window.

[oceanmdx]

I think it probably does... if I recall correctly, the penthouse condo of the original Bloor 1 tower was to have an infinity pool that did just that.... scary stuff.

[oceanmdx]

I was right... here's the article:

"Varacalli said the One Bloor East buyer was sold when he heard the unit will have a 12-foot-by-20-foot indoor infinity or "vanishing edge" pool. The pool's infinity edge runs right up to a floor-to-ceiling plate glass wall at one side of the building."

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/...-stand-in-line

[matt.ryerson92]

This was in the Star today.

“This development will bring a grander sense of architecture and space to the corner,” Varacalli says.

E Condos will comprise two towers, one proposed at 64 storeys, the other at 38 storeys. Each building will have a cantilevered glass-enclosed pool jutting out from the 31st floor.

The highlight of E Condos, though, are the cantilevered pools at the 31st floor of both towers — “a first for the city,” notes Barbara Lawlor, president of Baker Real Estate, the brokerage handling sales for E Condos.

The glass-enclosed pools will dramatically extend out the side of the buildings, offering swimmers and loungers full views of the city below and beyond.

The surrounding pool area, which Niven says he designed to resemble a Miami day club, will have floor-to-ceiling windows, saunas, lounge seating and a bar area.

The project goes on sale to the general public in early summer. Occupancy is slated for 2017.

http://www.thestar.com/living/reales...on-and-elegant

[MattToronto]

Looks like we lost the cool podium.

[isaidso]

Originally Posted by MattToronto

Looks like we lost the cool podium.

As soon as that podium design came out I knew it was too good to be true. There was no way they were going to approve something that interesting.