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
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