They Paid $8M for a Condo Here. Then It Started Raining Glass.

#ShangriLa #Toronto #Skyscraper One of the most expensive addresses in Canada — 700 feet of glass and steel, a five-star hotel stacked beneath $200 million of private estates. And for two years, pieces of it kept falling into the street below. Not bolts. Not construction debris. Sheets of glass, breaking loose from the balconies sixty stories up and dropping onto one of the busiest sidewalks in the city. In September 2013, one came down twenty-three floors and hit a man walking below. In this video, we go inside Toronto's Shangri-La — a $430 million luxury tower on University Avenue that started raining glass on the people beneath it barely three months after opening. From a flaw smaller than a grain of salt, hidden inside the glass since the day it was made, to the city order that banned residents from their own balconies — we break down why a brand-new, world-class building couldn't be made to stop shedding itself onto the street, and why nobody could predict which pane would go next. You can buy a five-star view. You can't negotiate with a flaw you chose not to look for. ☕ Support the channel If you enjoy this content and want to help keep these stories going, you can buy me a coffee. Every contribution helps with research, editing and creating more documentaries like this one. 👉 https://buymeacoffee.com/youtube.online MORE INFORMATION & SOURCES: Public reporting on the Shangri-La Toronto falling glass incidents (2013–2014) City of Toronto "order to remedy an unsafe building" and balcony restrictions Engineering references on nickel sulfide inclusions and spontaneous glass breakage Reporting on the Shangri-La Vancouver glass defect class action settlement ABOUT THIS CHANNEL: MadeFor explores the incredible stories behind the world's biggest engineering triumphs, failures, and forgotten megaprojects. From skyscrapers and stadiums to billion-dollar infrastructure, we break down how these structures are built — and what happens when they are left behind. Subscribe for weekly deep dives into mega engineering, architecture, and urban mysteries. Subscribe for more mega-engineering deep dives:    / @madefor-1