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Keeping tabs on … Market Wharf condos

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How the southeast corner of the Market Wharf Condos podium looked back on January 3 (left) and how the building appeared one month later.


Bricks & windows: What a difference a month makes for a building under construction! When I walked past the Market Wharf condo building site on the dreary, overcast afternoon of January 3, the concrete forms of the podium-top townhouses had been poured, and brickwork had been installed along large sections of the podium’s exterior walls. The podium looked considerably more finished off when I walked by the site about 10 days ago. Almost all of the windows had been installed on the east-side townhouses, while most of the podium brickwork had also been completed. Meanwhile, crews were busy building the base for the 25-storey condo tower that will rise at the south end of the podium. Below are pics from my latest Market Wharf walkby; my photos from January can be viewed in this post.

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Construction underway for Market Wharf condo tower base


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Concrete forms for tower base taking shape above Jarvis Street


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Condo tower base viewed from east side of Jarvis Street


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Another view of the condo tower base rising above Jarvis Street


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Almost all the windows are installed on the townhouses atop the podium


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Another view of the townhouses cantilevered above Jarvis Street


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Looking up at the southeast corner of the podium and townhouses


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Brickwork and windows along the podium’s Jarvis Street facade


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Another view of the brickwork and windows on the podium’s east face


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Windows and brickwork at the northeast corner of the podium


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St Lawrence Market view of  Market Wharf

With podium and cantilevered townhouses in place, Market Wharf poised to built condo tower next

Website rendering of Market Wharf condos below St Lawrence Market


Podium finish: If you liken building construction to a competitive race, then Context Development has achieved a podium finish with its Market Wharf project on Lower Jarvis Street. And to borrow an expression from the 2010 Canadian Winter Olympic Team, Context will totally own the podium once it gets the 25-storey Market Wharf condo tower going up — the next phase in construction — and sells the remaining 30% of units that have not already been snapped up by eager buyers. 

December was a busy building month for Market Wharf:  its eight-storey-tall podium got topped off; crews began installing windows in the townhouses that cantilever over the south end of the podium; mullions were being installed for windows for the Shoppers Drug Mart store that will open in the podium’s retail level; and work continued on the base for the condo tower.

  The building was designed by Peter Clewes of Toronto’s architectsAlliance. Below are photos I took of the site last week, along with another artistic rendering from the Market Wharf website where full project details and floorplans can be viewed.

 

Artistic rendering of a west view of the Market Wharf podium and tower


Market Wharf podium northwest side view January 3 2011; note how the window sizes and brickwork placement differ from the rendering above.


West side of Market Wharf podium on January 3 2011


Southwest view of Market Wharf podium on January 3 2011


Preliminary building work for Market Wharf condo tower


Getting ready to build the tower at south end of Market Wharf site


Southeast view of Market Wharf podium and townhouses


Cantilevered townhouses on the podium’s southeast corner


Another view of the cantilevered townhouses


Southeast side of Market Wharf podium along Jarvis Street


Northeast side of Market Wharf podium along Jarvis Street


Northeast corner of the Market Wharf podium (drug store to occupy street level)


St Lawrence Market view of Market Wharf podium on January 3 2010