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44th story of 72: Photos of the initial stages of the 3-year, 22 million dollar project to remove the 45,000 marble panels from the 11th tallest skyscraper in North America, First Canadian Place, and replace it with glass.

I've been watching these brave souls risk their lives every day in sub-zero temperatures to erect the scaffolding and "Avro Hoist" structure. It really is an incredible thing to watch, day after day, from my office window. Today they were level with my floor, so I took a few snaps.

Tamron SP 17/3.5 @f11:


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FD 24/2 @ f8:


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Tamron SP 70-210/2.8 @ 70mm, f4


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Tamron SP 70-210/2.8 @ 180mm, f4


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More info: "The same white Carrara marble as used on the Aon Center is employed as an exterior cladding and interior finish for First Canadian Place, with six hundred tons of the material on each floor. Foreshadowing what would take place with First Canadian Place in 2007, one of the marble slabs of the Aon Centre (then the Standard Oil Building) detached in 1974, falling and penetrating the roof of a neighbouring building, resulting in an eventual recladding of the entire Aon Center in white granite between 1992 and 1994. This problem would surface at First Canadian Place as well, as, during an intense storm on the evening of 15 May 2007, a 1 metre by 1.2 metres, 140 kg (300 pound), piece of white marble paneling fell from the 60th storey of the tower's southern face onto the 3rd floor mezzanine roof below, causing authorities to close surrounding streets as a precaution.[3][4] In late 2009, it was announced that, Brookfield Properties, the owners of First Canadian Place would follow the example of the Aon Center and replace, over the course of three years, the tower's 45,000 marble panels with new ones in glass, those on the main expanses with a white ceramic frit and the corners in a bronze tint, while the building podium retains its marble cladding." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Canadian_Place

Jan 20, 2010 at 01:55 AM
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WHOA !!!

Jan 20, 2010 at 02:18 AM
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Nice B+W conversions, Paul.

Jan 20, 2010 at 02:20 AM
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Thanks, Mat.

Jan 20, 2010 at 03:07 AM
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Nice shots and I agree with helimat.
Interesting background info as well.
The distortion in the first two shots bothers me though.


Jan 20, 2010 at 03:42 AM
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Excellent shots/story.

Really like the zoom comparrisons, thanks for those.


That is really crazy to know that something such as huge marble panels can, would, and have come crashing down

Whew!

Bob

Jan 20, 2010 at 04:02 AM
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that's a lot of counter tops!

Jan 20, 2010 at 04:32 AM
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Well done! Great photos and interesting story. Thanks!

A

Jan 20, 2010 at 05:39 AM
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Cool story and nice pics.

Jan 20, 2010 at 05:51 AM
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Thanks, everyone. Glad you enjoyed the story as well as the photos.

I'll likely photodocument various stages of the project.

Jan 20, 2010 at 12:28 PM
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Very interesting documentation. Scary just to think of these people. I don't think I could do it.

BTW, the 17mm seem to have a mustache distortion.

Happy shooting,
Yakim.



Jan 20, 2010 at 12:43 PM
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hi,
are you sure
Tamron SP 70-210/2.8?
or a
SP AF 70-200 F/2,8
SP 70-210mm F/3.5
SP 80-200mm F/2.8
?
Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Reinhard

Jan 20, 2010 at 12:47 PM
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Yakim Peled wrote:
Very interesting documentation. Scary just to think of these people. I don't think I could do it.

BTW, the 17mm seem to have a mustache distortion.

Happy shooting,
Yakim.


Mustache, I'd call that major foo man choo
Nice shots.
Dan
www.danbrownphotography.com

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Nice images and a nice story!

Jan 20, 2010 at 01:04 PM
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Great photos Paul. My wife and I stayed at the Sheraton Centre last May for a weekend away from home. The Sheraton lobby offers some interesting photo opportunities.

Jan 20, 2010 at 01:49 PM
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Yakim Peled wrote:
Very interesting documentation. Scary just to think of these people. I don't think I could do it.

BTW, the 17mm seem to have a mustache distortion.

Happy shooting,
Yakim.



Yes, the 17 does have mustache distortion, but it is exacerbated in that shot by some very heavy perspective correction (via Photoshop). I'll post the original this evening.

Jan 20, 2010 at 02:20 PM
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Dan, Ulrik, Jim, thanks!

Jan 20, 2010 at 02:22 PM
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rsrsrs wrote:
hi,
are you sure
Tamron SP 70-210/2.8?
or a
SP AF 70-200 F/2,8
SP 70-210mm F/3.5
SP 80-200mm F/2.8
?
Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Reinhard


Quite positive it is the Tamron SP (AF) 70-210/2.8 (manually focused, of course ).

Like this one: http://simpleus.blogspot.com/2007/03/tamron-sp-af-70-210mm-f28-ld-mini.html

It is a very nice lens, especially for $250 for a mint condition one with all the accessories.

After owning this for a while and shooting with it, I am convinced photodo had a bad copy of it. It is not quite as good as the "Magic Drainpipe" I once owned, but then that cost me a whole lot more money, too.

Jan 20, 2010 at 02:25 PM
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Never got to respond to this yesterday but thanks for the great story and images.
Yeah, I saw too the mustache distortion but was wondering if there is a way to correct it with ptlens like people have mentioned for the CZ 21's mustache distortion?

Jan 21, 2010 at 02:26 AM
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Thanks for reminding me, Wayne. I'll try to post the original Tamron shot a bit later.

The distortion should be correctable, but I honestly have never cared enough to even try.

Jan 21, 2010 at 02:40 AM
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Here's the Tamron image before the perspective correction:



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Jan 21, 2010 at 03:28 AM
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Great photos but it scares the crap out of me just looking at it!

Jan 21, 2010 at 04:14 AM
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Paul, you really need the 17 TS.

Happy shooting,
Yakim.



Jan 21, 2010 at 07:48 AM
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weezintrumpete wrote:
Great photos but it scares the crap out of me just looking at it!


Thanks. I think the photos come close, but if you saw it in real life it would surely give you vertigo and/or loose bowels. Those guys just saunter around up there. I'm pretty sure I saw them smoking a joint one day.

Jan 21, 2010 at 12:38 PM
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Yakim Peled wrote:
Paul, you really need the 17 TS.

Happy shooting,
Yakim.



Not a chance. If I ever spend that sort of dough on another lens, it'll be a Distagon 21/2.8.

Jan 21, 2010 at 12:40 PM




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