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One Bloor West
One Bloor West, previously known as The One, is a supertall skyscraper currently under construction in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. When completed, it would have been the tallest building in Canada, but was surpassed during construction by Pinnacle One Yonge. At a revised 308.6 metres (1,013 feet) and a revised 85 storeys, it will be taller than First Canadian Place, which has been Canada's tallest building since 1975. It will also be Canada's first supertall (> 300 m) skyscraper, as defined by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. Construction of the building is estimated to be completed by 2028.
Located in Toronto's Yorkville neighbourhood at the intersection of Yonge Street and Bloor Street, One Bloor West is across the street from the 257-metre-tall (843 ft) One Bloor condominium building. It will also stand next to Two Bloor West, an existing skyscraper completed in 1972. The site of The One involved land assembly that includes properties at 768 Yonge Street, in addition to those at 1 and 11 Bloor Street West.
Developer Sam Mizrahi acquired the land in October 2014 for CA$300 million. Mizrahi received approval from the city to build on September 12, 2016. The total cost for the project was estimated to be $1 billion during planning stages, but that figure had ballooned to $2 billion at the time of the receivership filing in October 2023.
Mizrahi hired the London-based Foster and Partners as the design architect, and Core Architects as the local architect. He travelled to London to design the building using an exoskeleton structure. The design of the building was revised based on recommendations from RWDI and the organization's wind tunnel testing. The final design no longer features a structural exoskeleton; however, it retains diagonal hangers which maintain a triangulated appearance. The structural engineer of record for the project is RJC Engineers. The extra height of the building has been determined to not have increased shadowing impacts on nearby parks.
The first 18 storeys of One Bloor West will include restaurants, event spaces, two major retailers and a luxury Hyatt hotel created under its boutique Andaz brand. The 160-room Andaz Toronto will occupy the fourth to sixteenth floors of the building, with the lobby on the fourth floor and an outdoor pool deck on the sixth floor.
The original plan for the highly visible ground floor retail space was for an Apple Store move in to a space designed by Foster and Partners. As of December 2023, that space is without a tenant following One Bloor West’s receivership filing in October 2023. In March 2022, Apple launched a lawsuit to terminate its lease agreement with Mizrahi Developments, and claimed $6.9 million in delay damages, expressing "profound disappointment" with One Bloor West’s developers in regards to missed deadlines; Press reports following the receivership filing confirmed that the Apple will not move into the space.
According to photographer Pedro Marques, the store was to feature a three-story vaulted ceiling with a cantilevered mezzanine over the main floor, a build which was complicated by Apple's requirements that there be no interior columns, and was to be fronted by three-story glass panels. Manufactured in Gersthofen, Germany, each glass panel measures over 2.3 metres (7 ft 7 in) wide, 11.5 metres (38 ft) high and 10.9 centimetres (4.3 in) thick, with eight sheets of laminated glass. The retail portion of the tower was originally scheduled to open in 2021.
Above the retail outlet, the tower's residential section will have a total of 416 units. One Bloor West will include four penthouse units. Four storeys of parking will exist underground, and the building will connect to the Bloor–Yonge station and nearby buildings via an underground walkway system similar to (but separate from) the city's PATH system.
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One Bloor West
One Bloor West, previously known as The One, is a supertall skyscraper currently under construction in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. When completed, it would have been the tallest building in Canada, but was surpassed during construction by Pinnacle One Yonge. At a revised 308.6 metres (1,013 feet) and a revised 85 storeys, it will be taller than First Canadian Place, which has been Canada's tallest building since 1975. It will also be Canada's first supertall (> 300 m) skyscraper, as defined by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. Construction of the building is estimated to be completed by 2028.
Located in Toronto's Yorkville neighbourhood at the intersection of Yonge Street and Bloor Street, One Bloor West is across the street from the 257-metre-tall (843 ft) One Bloor condominium building. It will also stand next to Two Bloor West, an existing skyscraper completed in 1972. The site of The One involved land assembly that includes properties at 768 Yonge Street, in addition to those at 1 and 11 Bloor Street West.
Developer Sam Mizrahi acquired the land in October 2014 for CA$300 million. Mizrahi received approval from the city to build on September 12, 2016. The total cost for the project was estimated to be $1 billion during planning stages, but that figure had ballooned to $2 billion at the time of the receivership filing in October 2023.
Mizrahi hired the London-based Foster and Partners as the design architect, and Core Architects as the local architect. He travelled to London to design the building using an exoskeleton structure. The design of the building was revised based on recommendations from RWDI and the organization's wind tunnel testing. The final design no longer features a structural exoskeleton; however, it retains diagonal hangers which maintain a triangulated appearance. The structural engineer of record for the project is RJC Engineers. The extra height of the building has been determined to not have increased shadowing impacts on nearby parks.
The first 18 storeys of One Bloor West will include restaurants, event spaces, two major retailers and a luxury Hyatt hotel created under its boutique Andaz brand. The 160-room Andaz Toronto will occupy the fourth to sixteenth floors of the building, with the lobby on the fourth floor and an outdoor pool deck on the sixth floor.
The original plan for the highly visible ground floor retail space was for an Apple Store move in to a space designed by Foster and Partners. As of December 2023, that space is without a tenant following One Bloor West’s receivership filing in October 2023. In March 2022, Apple launched a lawsuit to terminate its lease agreement with Mizrahi Developments, and claimed $6.9 million in delay damages, expressing "profound disappointment" with One Bloor West’s developers in regards to missed deadlines; Press reports following the receivership filing confirmed that the Apple will not move into the space.
According to photographer Pedro Marques, the store was to feature a three-story vaulted ceiling with a cantilevered mezzanine over the main floor, a build which was complicated by Apple's requirements that there be no interior columns, and was to be fronted by three-story glass panels. Manufactured in Gersthofen, Germany, each glass panel measures over 2.3 metres (7 ft 7 in) wide, 11.5 metres (38 ft) high and 10.9 centimetres (4.3 in) thick, with eight sheets of laminated glass. The retail portion of the tower was originally scheduled to open in 2021.
Above the retail outlet, the tower's residential section will have a total of 416 units. One Bloor West will include four penthouse units. Four storeys of parking will exist underground, and the building will connect to the Bloor–Yonge station and nearby buildings via an underground walkway system similar to (but separate from) the city's PATH system.