This building in downtown Toronto will reach 109 storeys and become Canada's tallest
Supertall building 'Pinnacle Skytower' will be 109 storeys high.
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Pinnacle Skytower Sitting at the base of Yonge Street at Queens Quay in downtown Toronto stands Canada’s tallest building. Pinnacle Skytower, one of the country’s first supertall skyscrapers, will rise 109 storeys, 352 metres, up in the sky and will be higher than the main observation deck of the CN Tower. (Beth Macdonell/CTV News Toronto)
CTV News Toronto recently took a tour of the supertall structure, beginning with an elevator ride up to the 99th floor. (Beth Macdonell/CTV News Toronto)
From there, visitors can climb up flights of stairs inside the tower’s tapered upper floors to unfinished sections where workers are still busy building. (Beth Macdonell/CTV News Toronto)
The tour then continued up to the very top of the building. (Beth Macdonell/CTV News Toronto)
Anson Kwok, Pinnacle International’s vice-president of sales and marketing, along with Nadine El-Gazzar, an associate with Hariri Pontarini Architects, served as the tour guides. (Beth Macdonell/CTV News Toronto)
The team working on this unprecedented project is excited and proud to reach this point of construction. (Beth Macdonell/CTV News Toronto)
Among the innovations developed during construction is a self-climbing crane outside the main body of the tower. (Beth Macdonell/CTV News Toronto)
Planning for Pinnacle Skytower began in 2012. (Beth Macdonell/CTV News Toronto)
It’s 12-sided polygon with white metal framing is meant to evoke a 12-sided jewel. (Beth Macdonell/CTV News Toronto)
A restaurant is being planned for the 106th floor. (Beth Macdonell/CTV News Toronto)
A hotel that occupies the first 12 floors of the building, as well as residential units up to the 56th floor, are expected to be ready this fall. (Beth Macdonell/CTV News Toronto)
So far, glass cladding is being worked on up to the 92nd floor. (CTV News Toronto Chopper)
Toronto is in the midst of a supertall skyscraper boom with at least nine supertalls in the works or rising, including One Bloor West at 85 storeys, which was Canada’s first supertall building. (KG&A Inc.)
Pinnacle also has a sister 95-storey building being planned next to Skytower. Five buildings are being developed on that site, including a 60-storey one that is already completed and two other buildings. (Pinnacle International rendering)
