The Canadian branch of UK architecture studio BDP has released designs for the 15 Toronto Street super-skinny skyscraper in the city's financial district.
BDP Quadrangle designed the 54-storey tower to replace a 10-storey office tower built in the 1960s. The 209,450-square-foot (19,459-square-metre) tower will contain residential and office units, with amenities on the ground floor and on the 11th.
"What 15 Toronto lacks in width it more than makes up for in height," said BDP Quadrangle project architect Emily Li. "Standing at 54 storeys upon completion, it will have no trouble standing out amongst its peers in the city's financial district."
BDP Quadrangle has designed a super skinny skyscraper called 15 Toronto Street Typically, a super skinny skyscraper ? also known as a pencil tower ? is one that has a height at least ten times greater than its width.
Renderings released by the studio show a structure on the corner in Toronto's financial district with stone-covered facades at the base.
At ground level, the structure will have a recessed entrance with a row of collonades around the base that extend the sidewalk space towards the ground level.

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