Aura: Residences of College Park III (Canderel, 78s, G+C)

**caltrane74** · 2012-Mar-09, 15:43

By me

**Mississauga Slim** · 2012-Mar-10, 00:09

I am dismayed by those silver horizontal stripes all over the podium. They remind me of the "decorative" stripes they used to apply to the sides of sporty cars in the 1970s. This 1970 Oldsmobile, for example.

**philofra** · 2012-Mar-10, 13:45

What a stretch of the imagination!

**taal** · 2012-Mar-10, 13:58

Not that I agree or disagree but:

When walking by this, more often then not I hear complaints from others (talking with friends or what not) along the lines of:
1) Its just too big.
2) Doesn't belong on Yonge.
3) Too much glass.

Generally they fall into one of those three categories ... I'm sure the majority have no idea it will be a 70+ story building, so they're in store for even more in regards to 1) above.

**dt_toronto_geek** · 2012-Mar-10, 16:41

Interesting. That helps to support my argument that people like the low rise/mid rise human scaled nature of Yonge Street as it progresses north. Personally, I'm all good with highrises on downtown Yonge including Aura, so long as we don't lose any heritage/heritage worthy buildings. It's north of College/Carlton that concerns me.

**taal** · 2012-Mar-10, 17:21

Originally Posted by dt_toronto_geek

Interesting. That helps to support my argument that people like the low rise/mid rise human scaled nature of Yonge Street as it progresses north. Personally, I'm all good with highrise on downtown Yonge including Aura, so long as we don't lose any heritage/heritage worthy buildings. It's north of College/Carlton that concerns me.

Just spotted this blog entry, which seems to agree with the general sentiment above:
http://thetorontoblog.com/2012/03/07...-aura-ascends/

Lots of great pictures as well. The blog in general has a lot of good pictures ! hmm, if whomever runs it is on UT as well

**Mongo** · 2012-Mar-10, 17:34

Originally Posted by taal

Lots of great pictures as well. The blog in general has a lot of good pictures ! hmm, if whomever runs it is on UT as well

Wow. I've been looking through that blog, it is definitely worth bookmarking.

**SP!RE** · 2012-Mar-10, 17:49

I'd love to design them a new logo, because the content is very good

**dt_toronto_geek** · 2012-Mar-10, 18:04

Briefly O/T, BlogTo and Torontoist are great for all-things-Toronto too.

**taal** · 2012-Mar-10, 18:19

Originally Posted by dt_toronto_geek

Briefly O/T, BlogTo and Torontoist are great for all-things-Toronto too.

You don't think blogTo / gridTo are good anymore ?

**caltrane74** · 2012-Mar-10, 20:40

By me

**dt_toronto_geek** · 2012-Mar-11, 01:19

Originally Posted by taal

You don't think blogTo / gridTo are good anymore ?

I mentioned blogTo, but missed The Grid (I'm connected via Facebook), Spacing & Toronto Life.

**UrbanFervour** · 2012-Mar-11, 04:10

We get it. 78 towering storeys of banality. Yaaaay

**isaidso** · 2012-Mar-11, 08:29

Originally Posted by taal

Not that I agree or disagree but:

When walking by this, more often then not I hear complaints from others (talking with friends or what not) along the lines of:
1) Its just too big.
2) Doesn't belong on Yonge.
3) Too much glass.

Generally they fall into one of those three categories ... I'm sure the majority have no idea it will be a 70+ story building, so they're in store for even more in regards to 1) above.

It's worth noting that people are far more likely to become vocal if they're bothered by something than if they're fine with it. For every 1 person complaining, how many aren't... 10, 100, 1000? This isn't really an accurate way to gauge public sentiment. People with negative sentiments always make far more noise than people who have no issue with something.

**KA1** · 2012-Mar-11, 09:13

Thanks for the latest picture, Caltrane 74. Remember, the objective for you is to post at least 1 picture a day.

That should keep you young and active

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