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Florian condo and Four Seasons Toronto towers fast approaching podium finishes in Yorkville

City Scene: $28M condo penthouse in the clouds

Penthouse in the mist: Clouds and fog swirl around the top floors of the Four Seasons Toronto Hotel & Residences tower in this photo shot this afternoon. The skyscraper, which is under construction in Yorkville, made headlines last month when an undisclosed buyer from outside the country purchased the 9,038-square-foot 55th floor penthouse for $28 million — the highest price ever paid for a condo anywhere in Canada. But as today’s weather proved, money can’t buy everything — especially a glorious penthouse view on a rainy day.

Neighbourhood Watch: Photos of Bloor-Yorkville area condos and construction activity (Part 2)

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May 5 2011: The 46-storey Casa condo on Charles Street West, viewed from a driveway between the Bloor Street Neighbourhood condo (left) and the St Charles Court apartment building (right)

May 5 2011: looking up at the L-shaped Bloor Street Neighbourhood condo tower

May 5 2011: Balconies on the west side of Bloor Street Neighbourhood

May 5 2011: South view toward the Casa condo tower from a driveway linking Hayden Street and Charles Street between the Bloor Street Neighbourhood condo tower and Charles Court apartments

May 5 2011: Pedestrians take a short-cut north to Hayden Street along the driveway between the Charles Court apartments (left) and the Bloor Street Neighbourhood condo tower

May 6 2011: A driveway just two vehicles wide is all that separates The Uptown Residences (left) and Crystal Blu Condos, new condo towers on Balmuto Street

May 6 2011: Construction on the exterior of The Uptown Residences is complete — except for the condo tower’s main entrance on Balmuto Street

May 6 2011: Construction of the Four Seasons Toronto Hotel + Residences, viewed from outside The Uptown Residences

May 6 2011: Four Seasons Toronto Hotel + Residences viewed from Balmuto Street

April 30 2011: Four Seasons Toronto Hotel + Residences tower viewed from the northwest corner of Bloor and St Thomas Streets

May 5 2011: Four Seasons Hotel + Residences Toronto construction viewed from Church Street near Park Road

April 23 2011: Looking south at the excavation progress for the Milan condo tower under construction at Yonge & Church

April 23 2011: View toward the southeast corner of the Milan condo tower excavation site, from the Canadian Tire store parking lot next door

April 23 2011: Deep excavation in the site’s southeast corner on Church Street

April 23 2011: Excavation activity near the Yonge subway line at the north side of the Milan condo tower construction site

April 23 2011: The Milan condo tower excavation entrance ramp off Church Street

May 5 2011: A view of the Milan excavation from the site’s southeast corner on Church Street, as a subway train passes the east side of the construction area.

May 5 2011: Church Street view through security fencing toward the northeast corner of the Milan condo tower construction site

May 5 2011: Looking north from Church Street toward the Canadian Tire store next to the Milan condo construction zone

May 5 2011: view toward the east side of the Milan site from the Church Street construction entrance ramp

May 5 2011: Church Street view of the Milan site, looking northeast

April 30 2011: Construction progress at the Seventy Seven Charles West condos viewed from Charles Street

April 30 2011: Seventy Seven Charles West condos viewed from the corner of St Thomas and Charles Streets

April 30 2011: Looking south on St Thomas Street at the Seventy Seven Charles West condos

April 22 2011: A window washer descends the south side of the 29-storey One St Thomas condo tower, which sits directly across Charles Street from the Seventy Seven Charles west condo construction site

April 22 2011: The cleaner works his way down the limestone-clad wall

April 22 2011: His job perk is a view inside some of the city’s most exclusive luxury condos

April 22 2011: The tower, which evokes highrise buildings from 1920s and 1930s-era New York City, was designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects

May 6 2011: Hoarding is installed along St Nicholas Street and heavy machinery positioned on St Mary Street as crews prepare to demolish buildings where the Nicholas Residences condo tower will be constructed

May 6 2011: This building was formerly home to Regis College, the Jesuit Graduate Faculty of Theology at the University of Toronto. The interior has been gutted, and demolition of the brick exterior is imminent

May 6 2011: Nicholas will rise 35 storeys next to the Church of Scientology Toronto building, left, at the corner of Yonge & St Mary Streets

April 30 2011: Bay Street view of excavation progress at the U Condos construction site, looking northwest toward hoarding along St Mary Street. The construction crane for the Seventy Seven Charles West condo building rises behind Loretto College, the 6-storey brick building toward the upper left of the photo.

April 30 2011: Looking from Bay Street toward excavation machinery at the northwest corner of the U Condos construction site

April 30 2011: A shoring machine on the U Condos construction site

April 30 2011 A steel I-beam sunk into the ground to help shore up the huge U Condos site for excavation and foundation construction

April 30 2011: Southward view from St Mary Street of excavation progress on the U Condos construction site

April 30 2011 St Mary Street view toward the southeast corner of the U Condos construction site

April 30 2011 St Mary Street view toward the southwest corner of the U Condos construction site

April 30 2011: A shoring machine in the SW corner of the U Condos site

Yorkville traffic snarled for hours after cement spills onto Bay Street from top of Four Seasons tower

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Looking south on Bay Street, from Scollard Street, shortly past 2 p.m. this afternoon. The entire block was closed to vehicles and pedestrians

With a television cameraman filming the action, two construction workers sweep debris from Bay Street while another crew inspects hoarding on the Bay Street sidewalk next to the Four Seasons hotel + condo construction site

Construction accident: It’s amazing nobody was hurt when a load of construction cement fell 53 storeys from the top of the Four Seasons hotel and condo tower and splattered onto Bay Street shortly after lunchtime today. The construction accident occurred around 1.20 p.m., but police and bystanders said no-one was injured and no vehicles or buildings damaged when cement showered onto the pavement between Yorkville Avenue and Scollard Streets. That section of Bay Street is typically busy with steady daytime traffic, including city buses, and dozens of pedestrians would have been walking along nearby sidewalks at the time. According to a story in the Toronto Star’s online edition, the mishap occurred when concrete was being poured into a mould on the 53rd floor of the tower, which will rise a total of 55 storeys once construction is completed. When the mould buckled, the concrete rained down onto the street. Police closed the entire block between Yorkville and Scollard so crews could clean the cement spill while staff from the provincial Ministry of Labour investigated the cause of the accident. A street cleaning machine was brought in to assist several construction workers using push brooms to sweep up the mess. Traffic throughout Yorkville was snarled as pedestrians and vehicles were forced to detour around the street closure. I arrived at the Bay/Yorkville intersection just as the crews finished sweeping the street, so there was little to see other than yellow “do not cross” tape and police vehicles barring access to the block, along with dozens of curious onlookers gazing upward at the tall glass tower and asking each other what had happened. Below are several photos I snapped at the scene. Additional photos of the Four Seasons Hotel & Residences can be viewed in my April 1 2011 post about progress on the construction project.

A view of Bay Street from the northwest corner of Bay and Yorkville Avenue, outside The Regency condominium building

A media photographer chats with police at the northeast corner of Bay & Yorkville

Television cameramen filming from the northwest corner of Bay & Yorkville

A TV cameraman films police standing a block away at Scollard Street

A TV cameraman shoots footage of the Four Seasons while pedestrians look up at the hotel/condo tower and traffic detours past the site

The police roadblock at Scollard Street, outside the Four Seasons West Residence

The Four Seasons’ East and West Residence towers viewed from the northwest

Two construction workers atop the Four Seasons’ 26-storey East Residence Tower

Cranes atop the West Residence tower, now 53 storeys tall on its way to 55

City Scenes: Snowy Bay Street building sites

Four Seasons Toronto hotel & condominium towers establish a new landmark for Yorkville district

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Four Seasons towers rising above the Yorkville Ave. fire station and library

Rapid rise: Even though it’s still under construction, the Four Seasons Hotel & Private Residences Toronto has already become a new landmark for the Yorkville neighbourhood. You can’t miss it as you approach the Yonge Street Canadian Tire store from Church Street. It’s obvious from the Annex and from many places along Avenue Road, Bay and Yonge Streets. You can even see it from the south side of Bloor across from Holt Renfrew. That’s no small achievement considering that views toward Yorkville are blocked by some of the area’s oldest skyscrapers (the Manulife Centre and the two bank towers at Yonge & Bloor) as well as several new towers (18 Yorkville, Crystal Blu and Uptown Residences, to name but three). It certainly will make it easy to help guide tourists to Yorkville (I won’t have to point at the CIBC tower at 2 Bloor West anymore and say “go there; Yorkville’s right behind it;” I’ll be able to point out the Four Seasons instead. Designed by hotshot Toronto firm architectsAlliance, the two-tower complex is a project of Menkes Developments. Below is an architectural rendering of the property, along with some pics I recently took of the Four Seasons complex from several different perspectives in and around Yorkville. You can view even more photos of construction progress on the blog’s Photo Sets page (just click on the red tab at the top of this page and scroll down to the Four Seasons album).

Architects’ rendering of the new Four Seasons Toronto hotel + condo complex

Four Seasons Toronto seen from Scollard Street January 9

Four Seasons Toronto seen from Church near Yonge on January 9

Four Seasons Toronto from Avenue Rd at Yorkville Avenue on January 9

Four Seasons Toronto seen from Bloor Street opposite Holts on January 9

Four Seasons Toronto seen from Scollard Street on January 9

Four Seasons Toronto seen from Bay Street at Davenport Road on January 9

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