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

[Name]

How do you do that with the photos??? it's awesome! They look like toy models!

that's probably just some Vaseline around the edges. old-school camera trick.

i used to do it a lot in the 80's. camera got screwed...

 

[skyscan]

Thanks folks. Its actually just a scene mode on my Canon S95 camera. A little expensive but amazing camera. Can shoot video in miniature as well.
If you have photoshop you can also achieve this effect with any pictures.
A few more I missed.

 

[Name]

you're saying noooo Vaseline was used?

well, anyways, really nice pictures.

 

[Towered]

From Monday.

 

[JayBee]

Is it me or is this project moving along pretty quickly?

 

[vegeta_skyline]

They certainly have picked up the pace lately. All the better, this project is the most important addition to the skyline, filling in our biggest skyscraper dead-zone.

 

[interchange42]

I think the dead zone being filled in on the ground here is more important than the one being filled in on the skyline: Yonge Street needs this wall!

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[mohammadz]

anyone have any updates on th ETA? is it still on track?

 

[androiduk]

^ A guy on site told me they should hit ground level in a year.

 

[khris]

A year? That seems way too long to hit ground level.

 

[Tulse]

^ A guy on site told me they should hit ground level in a year.

Sigh. This otherwise rather incoherent article makes an interesting observation: the complete Empire State Building was erected in 410 days.

 

[KA1]

A year? That seems way too long to hit ground level.

I agree that one year seems too long to hit ground level considering the hectic pace of constructions going on. I presume the guy must have meant 'next year'.

 

[steveve]

A year? That seems way too long to hit ground level.

it does... but then again, it IS a HUGE building... Shangri-la took a very long time too (about 2 years), i know it was mostly due to the deep excavation, but Aura is a huge tower... these below-ground levels are complex for a 75s tower...). Maybe 6 months to reach ground level?

 

[cassius]

I don't know, a year sounds about right to me, though they do seem to be working at an unusually fast pace so far.

 

[caltrane74]

To me it looks like they would hit ground level at around April-May 2011 at the latest...

When I say ground level, I mean when the levels FIRST REACH GROUND LEVEL - not for the entire site, which is still digging on the other side of the other side of the loading dock.