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

TorontoArchitect said:
I'm so excited and I just can't hide it
I'm about to lose control and I think I like it
I'm so excited and I just can't hide it
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Me too, I'm running out of projects to cover in my nabe as many reach or near completion. Hopefully we'll get something solid on 1 Bloor East soon and excavation starting by next fall (I'm an optimist) along with Couture.

Ramako said:
Nice photos DT,

If you zoom in on the third one, you can read DEEP FOUNDATIONS, which is an excavation company. Looks like digging is indeed imminent.
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Good observation, and thank you :)
 
Ramako said:
I'm So... Scared!
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Aw Jessie Spano. For some reason this reminds me of the commercial with guy who claimed that people thought he ate too many choc-o-let bars: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T2olgjnDWY . Also, Aura:



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TonyV said:
Yonge / Gerrard and vicinity -- the unbelievably bad Delta hotel, the nearby Yonge exposure of 10 Dundas E (have you guys seen how awful that thing looks at night?) ...
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OTOH the intersection does have John Lyle's Dominion Bank. (Now a pub, with a recently busted "health spa" up above.)
 
adma said:
OTOH the intersection does have John Lyle's Dominion Bank. (Now a pub, with a recently busted "health spa" up above.)
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i saw that news story too ...
they lured under-age runaways girls from nearby covenant house to 'work' there
 
A-propos of nothing, I wonder what's going to happen to the A/C unit on top of the parking-lot booth? Do they cart away booths intact, or will the thing get demolished?
 
AlvinofDiaspar said:
Ramako:

I can't speak for the others and their preferences - but the design talent of a proven architectural firm and one that isn't is clear to me from Day 1. IMO Aura was messy then, and though the DRP cleaned things up a bit, the design remains ho-hum.

Now what I *do* find interesting is that people who nitpick on relatively minor aesthetic issues at say the X has absolutely nothing to say about design excellence here, for a tower that is going to be far more prominent in the skyline.

AoD
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I think that has a lot to do with the fact it's 75 storeys.

The revisions to the base are good, but overall I find the tower design and base have a certain disconnect.

Having completely lost track of this project, I'm looking forward to seeing how it turns out.
 
khristopher said:
Check the flickr profile for the person who owns the photo. It's up to that person to provide updates. They didn't say they were going to though.
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Great, thanks khristopher!

It says he plans on taking a pic every day and produce a time lapse sequence over time. That would be most interesting. :)
 
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