Canada's tallest tower is being built in Toronto and the site looks like a sci-fi movie
The southwest corner of Yonge and Bloor looks like something straight out ofBlade Runner 2049these days.
Construction onMizrahi Developments' The One— which is vying to be Canada's tallest building at 85 storeys — is now three years underway.
Aftermonths of delay, work has resumed on this ambitious industrial endeavour.
Replacing the now-demolished114-year-old menswear store Stollerysare eight super-columns, which pedestrians can see rising up from the bowels of the site.
Weighing 40 tonnes each and made from steel, the super-columns reach up from mega-caissons installed in the bedrock.
Currently sitting as tall as the future ground-floor retail space, they mark the future footprint of the incoming luxury tower.
Inside are canted columns with steel caps, which are resting on yellow steel supports, forming an inner ring.
At the centre of it all is the Link-Belt TG2300B: a special crane that might be one of the highest capacity cranes ever deployed in the city.
The sheer mass of the project is overwhelming, especially when compared to thehumble three-storey brick heritage buildingthat still remains on site. It looks like the 2020 Toronto version of Robocop.
According to estimates, The One won't be complete until 2023.
When it's done, the supertower will be home to 18 floors of retail space (including an Apple Store), a new Hyatt-owned Andaz Hotel, and 416 condo units above.
The One marks the country's first supertall skyscraper and will soon surpass its 76-storey neighbour One Bloor. It will be the country's tallest building — that is, until thegargantuan SkyToweris built.
Fareen Karim
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