Toronto Aura at College Park | 271.87m | 78s | Canderel | Graziani + Corazza

[ptbotrmpfn]

wow beautiful shots! i personally have been wondering what that part looks like from that vantage point. the upper part will look amazing seeing the middle section rising. nice colored glass. those balconies will look nice (hopefully) when the glass comes for them.

 

[someMidTowner]

Thanks for that awesome angle xray. ROCP looks very Hong Kong in that photo..but not necessarily in the good way.

 

[steveve]

fantastic photos everyone!
and wow. that middle strip of glass is just a completely different class of glass. so much so that they don't really look good next to each other.. they kinda clash, but maybe it's just how it looks in photo

haha... Aura makes its music video debut:

[video=youtube;7iwmeISXoFE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iwmeISXoFE[/video]

 

[someMidTowner]

^ I just made a vom puddle that would rival that scene in Team America
Didn't Sean Desman die in a greasefire or something?

 

[BrianSolo]

Now that more cladding is going up, i'm not noticing the random taller floors so much anymore.

 

[WiddleBittyKitty]

Or… Toronto just hit a tipping point, and you're now inured to bad architecture.

 

[Automation Gallery]

Interesting
Strange, ..... cause there is a bunch of 70s, 75s, and one 80s in the pipeline.

Aura Condos Lonely at the Top
Canada’s tallest condo to stay the tallest?

If the City of Toronto has its way, it will stay the tallest for a long, long time. The city adopted the Downtown Tall Buildings Vision and Performance Standards Design Guidelines in July of this year.

The recommendations in the guidelines cap the height of Toronto buildings at 60 stories even on the busiest streets like Yonge Street—something Riz Dhanji, VP of sales and marketing for Canderel Residential, thinks will make the city an architectural backwater.

“If you go to any major city in the world today, tall buildings are where it’s at. High density is where people are moving,” says Dhanji.

The reason we have tall buildings is that we’re right above the subway,” says Dhanji.

Building ultra tall may not only be a thing of the past, but we may stop building anything unusual too. The tall building guidelines also limit the base plate of new buildings to 7,500 square feet.

The idea behind much of the guidelines is to keep city streets sunny. Thinner buildings cast thinner shadows. You can only go so high without making the base larger.

Not only do the recommendations limit the height and size of buildings, but they also put forward a set of suggested typologies for different areas of the city.

“In the next five years you’re going to look at buildings and all of them will look the same,” says Dhanji
More........http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/business/aura-condos-lonely-at-the-top-287903.html

 

[caltrane74]

So long as developers can appeal to the OMB the guidelines are pretty much useless unless only used as guidelines not firm rules.

 

[Ramako]

Interesting
Strange, ..... cause there is a bunch of 70s, 75s, and one 80s in the pipeline.

Aura Condos Lonely at the Top
Canada’s tallest condo to stay the tallest?

If the City of Toronto has its way, it will stay the tallest for a long, long time. The city adopted the Downtown Tall Buildings Vision and Performance Standards Design Guidelines in July of this year.

The recommendations in the guidelines cap the height of Toronto buildings at 60 stories even on the busiest streets like Yonge Street—something Riz Dhanji, VP of sales and marketing for Canderel Residential, thinks will make the city an architectural backwater.

“If you go to any major city in the world today, tall buildings are where it’s at. High density is where people are moving,” says Dhanji.

The reason we have tall buildings is that we’re right above the subway,” says Dhanji.

Building ultra tall may not only be a thing of the past, but we may stop building anything unusual too. The tall building guidelines also limit the base plate of new buildings to 7,500 square feet.

The idea behind much of the guidelines is to keep city streets sunny. Thinner buildings cast thinner shadows. You can only go so high without making the base larger.

Not only do the recommendations limit the height and size of buildings, but they also put forward a set of suggested typologies for different areas of the city.

“In the next five years you’re going to look at buildings and all of them will look the same,” says Dhanji
More........http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/business/aura-condos-lonely-at-the-top-287903.html

If in five years, all Toronto is getting is stubby, spandrel-covered, Vancouveresque point towers (which the city seems to be pushing hard for), I won't be following development in Toronto any more out of pure lack of interest.

 

[Edward]

Growing impressive.

 

[Johnzz]

Thanks Automation, interesting article.

 

[skylyte]

Is is true that the "Tall Buildings Guideline" has also stated that the Financial District will be allowed to have "unlimited heights"? Since the District is expanding to the eastern waterfront area, will that be included as well with the onset of projects like the LCBO lands, the Loblaws store and the Toronto Star parking lots?

 

[Johnzz]

So long as developers can appeal to the OMB the guidelines are pretty much useless unless only used as guidelines not firm rules.

I read that appealing to the OMB would NOT be allowed if these guidelines were broken.

This probably explains Riz Dhanji’s (uncharacteristic) down-beat comments in the article. I think any developer currently pushing for additional height (beyond these guidelines) might be out of luck…

 

[Torontovibe]

Interesting
Strange, ..... cause there is a bunch of 70s, 75s, and one 80s in the pipeline.

Aura Condos Lonely at the Top
Canada’s tallest condo to stay the tallest?

If the City of Toronto has its way, it will stay the tallest for a long, long time. The city adopted the Downtown Tall Buildings Vision and Performance Standards Design Guidelines in July of this year.

The recommendations in the guidelines cap the height of Toronto buildings at 60 stories even on the busiest streets like Yonge Street—something Riz Dhanji, VP of sales and marketing for Canderel Residential, thinks will make the city an architectural backwater.

“If you go to any major city in the world today, tall buildings are where it’s at. High density is where people are moving,” says Dhanji.

The reason we have tall buildings is that we’re right above the subway,” says Dhanji.

Building ultra tall may not only be a thing of the past, but we may stop building anything unusual too. The tall building guidelines also limit the base plate of new buildings to 7,500 square feet.

The idea behind much of the guidelines is to keep city streets sunny. Thinner buildings cast thinner shadows. You can only go so high without making the base larger.

Not only do the recommendations limit the height and size of buildings, but they also put forward a set of suggested typologies for different areas of the city.

“In the next five years you’re going to look at buildings and all of them will look the same,” says Dhanji
More........http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/business/aura-condos-lonely-at-the-top-287903.html

My favourite line from the article

“We want to come out with world-class architecture—it’s not going to happen anymore".
lol

(that line is so disingenuous!)

 

[SP!RE]

Height and world-class architecture have very little to do with each other.

Aura is a great example of this. What does Aura say about the future and how we're inventing it? What does it say about progress and creating better buildings?