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The Bay Adelaide Centre is an office complex located in the Financial District of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The first phase, a 51-storey skyscraper known as Bay Adelaide West, was completed in July 2009. The second phase, the 44-storey Bay Adelaide East, is under construction and is expected to be completed in 2015 or early 2016. The construction of a third tower, Bay Adelaide North, has not yet been announced. ==Description of complex== Upon completion, the Bay Adelaide Centre will consist of three towers. The first tower, Bay Adelaide West, was completed in 2009 with a floor area of and a height of or 51 storeys. It is located on the northeast corner of Bay Street and Adelaide Street West. The lobby of the building contains an integrated light art piece by James Turrell. The second tower, Bay Adelaide East, is under construction, and will have a floor area of and a height of 44 storeys. Located mid-block between Adelaide Street West and Temperance Street, the tower will have a 6-storey podium extending to the northwest corner of Yonge Street and Adelaide Street West. The future Bay Adelaide North is anticipated to have a floor area of approximately and a height of 28 to 32 storeys. Unlike the two other towers in the complex, the north tower will be located on the north side of Temperance Street, with frontage along Richmond Street West. The Bay Adelaide North site is currently occupied by a one-storey elevator lobby which provides access to the underground concourse and garage. The towers of the Bay Adelaide Centre are connected by an underground concourse, which extends under Temperance Street, and is connected to the PATH network. The underground concourse has PATH connections to Scotia Plaza to the south and Hudson's Bay Queen Street to the north. There is also a four-level underground garage under the complex, with vehicular access from both Adelaide Street West and Richmond Street West. There is a public space, Arnell Plaza, located between Bay Adelaide West and Bay Adelaide East. Although Arnell Plaza is privately owned, public access has been legally secured by the City of Toronto. Cloud Gardens, a public park, is located immediately to the east of the Bay Adelaide North site on land conveyed to the City of Toronto as a condition of the original development approvals for the complex. The complex's mechanical facilities are located in a four-storey above-grade building on the southwest corner of Yonge and Temperance Streets, with retail uses to be constructed at grade as part of the Bay Adelaide East construction. In order to accommodate the construction of the Bay Adelaide East podium, the historic facades of the former Elgin Block, constructed in 1850 and 1910 and once occupied by Holt Renfrew, were disassembled, refurbished and reconstructed as the facade of the mechanical facility building.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.eraarch.ca/2014/ghost-wall-casting-a-heritage-facade-in-concrete/ )〕 Both Bay Adelaide West and Bay Adelaide East are designed in a modernist style, although the historic north and west facades of the former National Building at the corner of Bay and Temperance Streets, completed in 1926, has been incorporated into Bay Adelaide West. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bay Adelaide Centre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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