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I wouldn't care if the building was 50m taller, provided they addressed the other problems.
If i'm not mistaken thats what happened to Aura..a re-design of two buildings into one taller one with all the perks.
I wouldn't care if the building was 50m taller, provided they addressed the other problems.
So, urbandreamer is rah rah rah for aA no matter what. No surprise.
And Big Daddy is apoplectic. No surprise.
At least some of you have the sense to know that it is very early in the game here, and that this has only been drawn for massing purposes so far. This plan has many hurdles to clear, and will undoubtedly receive a rough ride. The City does have some design muscle and no doubt we will see it flexed over the coming months.
What we see here now is merely the opening salvo: the developer is never going to spend a ton of money on a shiny render until the details of what they are allowed to build is worked out.
For those who want to see changes made to this plan, watch for details of public meetings to come... and then go to them. Let the planners know why you don't like what you see - just don't be the person who spends all their time shouting and none of it listening. There are already enough of those types at these meetings, and they rarely help things get worked out. Just saying...
OK, I know it's totally unfair to judge a building based on a tiny distorted preliminary line drawing, but... well let's just say I hope that's an exceedingly poor representation of the finished product. As in, no more accurate than dt_toronto_geek's red-outline visualization from a while back.
WTF?? Really? Can we stop this somehow? This is actually worse than i had feared. Doesnt the city have any design powers?
I will repeat what I seem to have to say every time an elevation is made public: Don't judge a building by just the elevation, they are almost always very unflattering. I myself intend to wait for the render before passing judgment.