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I recall a variety of options for height with their early tower proposals and would be curious to know if they built capacity in for more.
 
You are right, Ian, there were number of discussions re height and what might be allowed. In the end an ICE spokesperson -- I believe it was someone from Dialog -- stated that the soil conditions for the third tower were significantly poorer than the condition for the Hotel Tower and Stantec's Tower and that the reason for the reduction in height from 50-some storeys to 44 was entirely due to soil conditions. Whether that was true or not, the tower footing design proceeded with an allowance for a 44-storey tower and that is what is there presently. The Dialog design, then, for a residential tower took that height restriction into account. As you know the column structure is currently set in place as well, further limiting what the tower can show from a design perspective. The Dialog aesthetic that was presented pre CWB office tower scheme was sorely lacking in my opinion (there was one previously proposed that was a whole lot better. I have added the Good, the Bad here as a reminder -- I sure hope we are not awaiting the Ugly.
The Good (with the new height restriction of 44 floors):
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The Bad (did Dialog give this to a newbie to design?):
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And the one that got away (58 Floors designed by Hariri Pontarini firm):
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Further there are some rumblings that the new tower design might be incorporated in a 2-tower proposal incorporating the ICE land on 104th Street -- I am hopeful that that is what @Greenspace is referencing -- that would be something with a whole lot of potential, particularly if the towers were conjoined by an upper-storey pedway. It would be doubly exciting if the design was handed back to Hariri Pontarini.
 
Interesting about the soil conditions, I thought the worst part of that site was the Stantec Tower site.
 
The full Soils Report is available on this thread from a post by @Daveography -- March 7, 2019 if you care to read it. It basically boils down to a large amount of fill under tower B that didn't exist under the Hotel tower and the Stantec tower, both of which had a more substantial clay base. This could have been mitigated with a different footing design for tower B but that effort was not undertaken and so now the world has to live with a design that maxes out a 44 storeys.
 
I referenced how to see it on this thread -- a 5 or 6 page report -- you can access it yourself. I am not in the habit of spoon-feeding.
 
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