Pinnacle International<\/a>, a real-estate development company based in Vancouver, B.C. that leads residential, hotels and commercial projects across the country.\u00a0<\/p>\nAs the project reaches its top height, officially becoming the tallest apartment building in Canada, Pinnacle International\u2019s Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Anson Kwok, tells Now Toronto its top floor will reach the height of the CN Tower\u2019s observation deck, falling short of topping the landmark only by its antenna.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re part of the postcard view. I think it\u2019s very symbolic of Toronto for people to take pictures from the [Toronto] Islands towards the city, so that you can have the CN Tower in it. The only difference is that now we\u2019re also up in the air with the CN Tower. So, [it is] very critical to mark the exciting city and the progress that we\u2019ve made,\u201d he says.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Besides being a new staple in the city\u2019s external skyline, from the inside, the building also promises to impress. Having recently climbed to the top of the tower, Kwok says the view is certainly something to look forward to.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s pretty incredible. You get to see all of Toronto. You get to see outside of Toronto and across Lake [Ontario] . You can see Rochester [N.Y.]. So, you can see a lot. And it\u2019s a very different perspective of the city, for sure,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Standing alongside the SkyTower are other Toronto buildings that top the city\u2019s skyline, including:\u00a0<\/p>\n
One Bloor West at 1 Bloor St. W., which is 308.6 metres tall;<\/p>\n
Concord Sky at 391 Yonge St., which is 300.2 metres tall;<\/p>\n
First Canadian Place at 100 King St. W., which is 298.1 metres tall;\u00a0<\/p>\n
The St. Regis Toronto at 325 Bay St., which is 276.9 metres tall.<\/p>\n
According to Kwok, the SkyTower will be for mixed use, holding a new Le M\u00e9ridien Toronto Pinnacle Hotel from floors 1\u201312, 958 residential units from floors 13\u2013105, as well as 80,000 sqft. of amenities across the building.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The SkyTower is part of a 4.4-million-sqft. project that aims to transform that section of the city\u2019s waterfront by adding residences, outdoor spaces and retail to the area. The tallest building will be accompanied by two smaller but also significantly-sized residential towers, with one sitting at 65 storeys and the other at 80 storeys.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, with trying to keep the community interesting, we had to go with a variety of different heights of buildings, so it looked a little bit more unique,\u201d Kwok said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it was really important to signify and kind of reestablish Yonge Street as the spine of the city. That\u2019s where the subway is, it\u2019s also the longest street. And you see that throughout the city. We\u2019re starting to get taller buildings on Yonge Street at Yonge and Gerrard, Yonge and Bloor, andYonge and Eglinton. It marks where the city\u2019s spine is moving from north to south.\u201d<\/p>\n
Construction for the building started in 2019, and crews needed plenty of tools to put up the large tower, including a large external crane and concrete pumps to bring materials up.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have an external crane that helps us bring things up. And then we also have a concrete pump that pumps the concrete up so it goes from the ground floor all the way up to the 106th floor,\u201d Kwok said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are a lot of team members up there that work on all different components. Right now, for example, we have people installing windows on the 92nd floor, we have people working on the mechanical rooms on the 106th floor. So, there\u2019s a lot of details being worked on throughout the building, from [the] ground all the way up to the roof.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The project is now set to be completed by this fall, when Pinnacle International expects to begin receiving people at Le M\u00e9ridien and residential units. There are units still currently available for sale in the SkyTower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What to know The SkyTower has reached its full height of 106 storeys, making it Canada\u2019s tallest residential…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,192400,211907,968,136485,3302],"class_list":["post-543019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cn-tower","tag-pinnacle-international","tag-real-estate","tag-skytower","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}