Augusta - 165 James St S, 14 and 26 Augusta St | ? | 6, 8 & 8 fl | Under Construction

[TheRitsman]

Originally Posted by lachlanholmes

More critical to sound-proofing (in a formed concrete building) is what is between the units.

In my current apartment, there is a formed concrete shear wall on one side, and the sound just doesn't travel from that unit next to me. On the other side, there is no shear wall, just a basic non-load bearing interior wall and you can hear everything happening in the apartment on the other side of it — you can pretty clearly hear entire conversations being held at a regular speaking volume.

Similar story with my previous apartment, formed concrete shear wall between the apartment next door, but non load-bearing interior wall between the back of the dining room and the bedroom of the apartment behind. The sound travelled like mad in that portion.

This is a big reason I'm a fan of formed concrete construction, specifically formed concrete walls between units. Makes a huge difference.

Our sound proofing requirements here are so lax. In many Nordic countries they are far more strict. Between units some countries will require or some developers will voluntarily use 2 layers of 5/8 drywall, with staggered studs, and soundproof and fire proof rock based insulation. That plus properly filling spaces in corners, around utility boxes and other sound dampening helps a lot. Most times here it's just a metal stud interior wall with a single layer of 5/8 fireproof drywall on each side, maybe pink insulation. It's trash.

[Innsertnamehere]

My apartment in Toronto was formed concrete on all sides and was very, very quiet. It was nice.

Condo developers cheap out and skip on concrete walls, but mine was a rental building so they knew to pay the extra bit to make sure every unit was sound seperated.

[ScreamingViking]

I lived in a late-60s era building in Burlington for a long time. The only things I heard from other units were shouting arguments, heavy dropped items, and loud bass (someone above me played video games through stereo speakers, probably when the adult of the home wasn't around). Oh, and when I first moved in someone above me wore hard-soled shoes and I could hear them scurrying about when getting ready to leave (click clack click clack click clack). Otherwise it was pretty quiet.

Worst sounds came from outside. Gas leaf blowers and lawn mowers and such, often very early in the morning.

[TheRitsman]

Core Urban photo, looks like on second last floor?

[Innsertnamehere]

The columns they are working on right now are for the final floor.

Although it's an 8-storey building, due to the grades it presents as 7-floors from James:

[TheRitsman]

Even better!

[Chronamut]

I am very curious to see how this ages over time - don't get me wrong, white is beautiful, I am just curious is all.

[TheRitsman]

Looking good at night, and looks like Plank is opening soon.

[johnnyhamont]

Photos from Nov 25 by Joe

[TheRitsman]

[Chronamut]

Wow this went up incredibly quickly..

[TheRitsman]

Looks like the cladding is going on, and of course it's looking decent already:

[TheHonestMaple]

I was by earlier today. The facade is much darker than the renders. It's the exact same 'stone' material that is used on the Augusta building. Thought this one was going to be closer to white.

[TheRitsman]

For sure darker, but it might just cold and wet out, and look lighter once it dries off?

[Chronamut]

Oh wow yeah that's definitely darker - and yeah it looks like they use the same stone supplier for all of their builds.. still, I was sorta hoping for a stark white..

sorta fearful how this will look being all one stone on the facade - like there is no darker brick like their other ones to make it pop lighter in comparison, I hope it doesn't look kinda sandy bland - the white would have helped it stand out nicely..

[TheRitsman]

This looks a lot closer to how I imagined it. I suspect I correctly surmised that the panels were damp, and therefore darker.

[StEC]

Damn this is looking beautiful!

[craftbeerdad]

this looks good so far, and looking at the render again, I suppose if the light hits it a certain way, the illumination comes off a bit more beige/off-white which sort of makes sense.

[StEC]

Photos taken on Dec 17th. I noticed they are installing glass on the sides and back of the building. The 3rd building is growing too! Quality work here from Core Urban as usual!

[Chronamut]

It never ceases to amaze me how their finished products always look like they've just always been there for the past 100 or so years..

and yeah that's looking a bit better, although I still wanted a stark white, but yeah that'll def age better on this street (hope they scrub those strap marks off the one side from transport lol..)

it ties in very well between the styles of the 2 buildings it's in between - core urban are just excellent at design. I am.. curious to see where the ventilation is going to be punched into though on the facade - I hope it's not too ugly.. looks beautiful atm all unblemished..

I really don't get why they don't incorporate ventilation into the actual design vs just randomly punching it in after though.. although I noticed the areas above each window have been designed differently than the render - the render had square-like jutouts and the new design just shows almost a rectangular plaque above each - maybe they'll drill them in there and then cover them with grates or something.. it woulda been cool if they had just been perforated grate lids the same colour as the stone