yyzer
Senior Member
hmm, right you both are....pretty hard to keep track of it all....
I would kill for a Chrysler Building type crown!
Toronto has 163 high-rise buildings under construction now — the most of any city in North America — according to a recent city report. New York is runner-up with 99.
“On the other hand, 10 years ago, 20 storeys were the economic maximum,†he said. “Now, because of the green belt and population growth, it might come to a point where it is economically viable to build 120 storeys at Yonge and Bloor because there is so much demand.â€
Oh come on, don't you think you're expecting too much from Boxonto....err, i mean Toronto (also known as Greyonto)? What's next? Sooner or later you'll start expecting the 'greater downtown area' to have proper roads (i.e. no potholes, cracks and unevenness); proper and even wider sidewalks with no stains, asphalt patches and trash; proper streetscape in terms of street lights, benches, trash cans, and underground hydropoles, etc., along with a clean-up of some of the really unattractive areas like 10 Dundas East's exterior, and improvements to dilipidated buildings (like north of City Hall on west of Bay Street, etc.). And don't you or anyone else dare think that given Toronto has Canada's largest downtown and the fact that we're hosting the Pan-Am games, which should supposedly act as a catalyst to get things improved, these things should be a no-brainer, as that is completely out-of-line!
press conference tomorrow!
"A triangular plot of land near the foot of York Street will be the site of a proposed residential skyscraper soaring 75 storeys.
Details of the Tridel development are to be unveiled at a press conference Tuesday morning that will include officials from Build Toronto, the real estate branch whose job it is to sell surplus city properties."
http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/11/21/even-at-816-feet-proposed-75-storey-condo-building-still-wont-be-torontos-tallest/
edit: congrats to UT for the press coverage!
Yeah, Aura will be 264 meters/866 feet.
by me
Too bad they all look like boxes. It would be nice to have a few more interesting rooftops in the city.
Too bad they all look like boxes. It would be nice to have a few more interesting rooftops in the city.