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this is one very neat looking construction site. The building especially looks so clean and tidy for some reason where maybe PCL must have some good quality subtrades installing all the exterior components. Even the horded off bits look nice. This crew probably runs a tight ship..

Yeah, GEC isn't designing this anymore.. It is now Gibbs, I think much of the design has been retained but there are I'm sure some differences. No tacky spires though..Unless it is a joint venture for the interiors which I doubt.. It will still be a great addition that fits nicely with the urban...

This site shows the pit and the shoring in better detail. It looks like a substantial portion of the concrete that is poured with the steel pile is carved out so to slide in the laggings. Probably around 50% of the concrete is removed so to expose the steel while the other half is embedded into...

That pit is most interesting for the shoring design. It looks like the first few meters have the regular wood laggings but afterwards it is the concrete mix that is holding the steel piles together. Seeing these being augered in back in December these steel pieces didn't look any more than 3-4...

It does suck about EAP and their dead podium at street frontage. Partly to blame is the expensive rental costs for the CRU's in the podium as the property is considered AAA and sadly that level of property cannot attract independent ma and pa shops. Any retail that is currently there are too...

Will clarify, The Hall F which is not shown will be the first one to go as I believe there is a DP already in the city. That will fully build out the BMO center from its 2006 design. That picture does look more and more like the Corral replacement at the back of house. It will be pretty sweet...

This GGA project has its challenges but the end products once it is pulled off will definitely help liven up that part of the downtown core. Especially being right beside the gorgeous Manulife tower and near EAP. Some fine commercial properties at a stones throw. I'm not sure if there will be a...

Another collaboration project by Diamond Schmidt and Gibbs Gage. It will have a combination of brick and some curtainwall especially at the main public spaces and foyers. The bricks are designed to be arranged in some unique pattern or modules to suit the music based theme of the design but it...

Anybody see the news this morning about the Stampede BMO Hall F expansion? In the renders it included a little something extra ;) A fine institution and a destination worthy of culture and fine arts in a few years.

Thanks guys, it is good to be back and I think I will settle here for a while. I'm going to have to walk by the site this weekend and take a look as maybe the demo might be all done by now. The tower boom if you even dare to call it as that feels back and it is pretty good. Though the office...

This might be the Ramsay Worden/Stantec collaboration project where Ramsay designs and Stantec does the Contract Administrating of it.. I will need to check as the BP has already been released and the plan is to start digging right away as soon as the last dumptruck load of rubble is carried...

I'm sure they are going to start mobilizing the site and do the demo for all the existing crap in the coming weeks with actual excavation starting late summer. Overall a great GGA project that was actually in collaboration with a design architect from London originally before it got handed off...

I think that is more of a laneway meant to be for services and loading. Though I too prefer that to be a pedestrian way with provisions set to make this vehicle accessible during off hours like at night for garbage and loading etc which would then revert back to pedestrian use in the morning for...