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

[ushahid]

nice pics Larissa....

 

[ushahid]

The 275-metre building, which towers above Toronto’s Yonge subway line, is so big that it has two condo corporations to accommodate a three-phase move-in of buyers, many of them young professionals keen to walk to work or nearby universities.

http://www.thestar.com/business/201...st_residential_tower_reaches_for_the_top.html
is it really 275 m

 

[Red October]

Pretty expensive spot for a library. Can you imagine what the non-library using tax payers would say?

I'm sure Rob and Doug Ford would incessantly complain, as usual.

 

[RocketAppliances]

Did the engineers account for the weight of the books?

 

[sub-URBAN]

I think a night club would be kinda cool up there.

 

[fiendishlibrarian]

Did the engineers account for the weight of the books?

I worked in a library where that's exactly what did *not* happen: the new library at U of T Scarborough had a second floor constructed that could not accomodate compact shelving, with the result that by the time I left in 2008 the library was itself running out of shelf space. It was constructed in 2004.

 

[Red October]

I worked in a library where that's exactly what did *not* happen: the new library at U of T Scarborough had a second floor constructed that could not accomodate compact shelving, with the result that by the time I left in 2008 the library was itself running out of shelf space. It was constructed in 2004.

That was a myth about UW's Dana Porter Library too.

 

[Lenser]

Aura from the east end Chinatown, late Sunday afternoon.

 

[Southcore]

So the ground level retail will house Hard Candy Gym, which Madonna has an ownership stake in:

http://www.thegridto.com/blog-post/madonna-has-moved-to-toronto/

 

[innsertnamehere]

You mean 4th Floor? I'm pretty sure it's already open as well.

 

[BrianSolo]

The gym, Hard Candy, will be on the top retail level (5th floor). It has not opened yet. Although people have moved in, the facilities are still far from finished.

 

[innsertnamehere]

... the 5th floor is condo amenities. unless you are counting the basement mall. It goes like this:

Basement: Mall
First Floor: Banks & Restaurants
Second Floor: Bed Bath & Beyond
Third Floor: Marshalls
Fourth Floor: Hard Candy

 

[steveve]

And some photos from today's visit up the hoist elevator to the 67th floor:


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stunning.
and ya as regards to a sky restaurant, that would be awesome... Panorama lounge@Manulife and 360 are great, but something here would stand on it's own.

 

[RiverCity1]

From King St East and River St:

 

[innsertnamehere]

Finally getting a look at your Condo I take it?