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

[Larissa Doherty]

I'm also really pleased that there will be a light feature at the top of the building, I really, really hope it's executed well because it sounds like it could really work.

I'm not sure I understand the prohibition on having a large shopping store in the basement of Aura, the reason for dividing the units up so small.

Canderel owns 777 Bay, where there is already a 24h Metro and a Sobeys, which is connected underground (and via the future PATH) to Aura. It's not unusual for lease contracts in retail/commercial deals to have non-compete clauses that limit the amount of competition you'll find between stores in a mall. The Shops at Aura are different though (I'm only referring to the P1 level) , because it's set up as a condo corporation with individually owned units whereby the owner can rent to whomever s/he chooses, without regard to the existing competition.

On top of that, there's already a Loblaws of significant size about 3-minutes away, so I doubt a grocery store would want to dig into a market that's already so saturated within a tiny radius.

 

[gabe]

2 restaurants isn't exactly "chain" material.

Check the website. SIR group owns over 50 restaurants http://www.sircorp.com/our-restaurants.php I bet they will be opening Red's all over Canada in the near future.

I'm not saying having a big corporate restaurant is a bad thing, I'm just not surprised in this location, near Yonge-Dundas Square.

 

[ushahid]

The curved portion looks great. It's a shame the entire building wasn't clad in curtain wall.

they should have increased the curved portion and decreased the rectangular portion

 

[sub-URBAN]

they should have increased the curved portion and decreased the rectangular portion

Or they should have just put more effort into the rectangular portion instead.

 

[vatche]

they should have increased the curved portion and decreased the rectangular portion

Those were my thoughts exactly. The curved portion should've been taller than the rectangular one.

 

[mrjun18]

This thing needs a spire on top once its completed.

 

[Gphorce]

Assuming they complete the roofline according to the renders, it should have an interesting sloped roof element resembling a ) rotated so it's facing up like a mouth. A spire probably wouldn't work with that plan.

 

[someMidTowner]

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[TheTigerMaster]

I'm also really pleased that there will be a light feature at the top of the building, I really, really hope it's executed well because it sounds like it could really work.

I'm not sure I understand the prohibition on having a large shopping store in the basement of Aura, the reason for dividing the units up so small.

Are there any renders of this lighting fixture?

 

[someMidTowner]

Are there any renders of this lighting fixture?

The night rendering depicting the lighting feature is in the dataBase listing (top of the page)

 

[TheTigerMaster]

The night rendering depicting the lighting feature is in the dataBase listing (top of the page)

Ahh thanks. I saw that earlier on my phone, but wasn't sure if that was just to make the building stand out in the render.

I have my reservations, but it looks like it has potential. Hopefully this will have a better fate then Lightline at Trump Tower.

 

[lxmoss]

November 13.... HDR.

 

[wmedia]

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[johnwood]

mediocre in all its glory! looks like asian slum to me

 

[BrianSolo]

Hmmmm... you find Asian slums mediocre. Interesting.