Canada's 10 Tallest U/C - Page 28

isaidso · #**541** Posted **Apr 16, 2014, 6:47 AM**

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Originally Posted by suburbanite

It would dwarf the entire cbd from the lake. Very few cities have their tallest building that close to the waterfront.

Do you mean like the CN Tower and Toronto? Putting a 400m+ building close to the waterfront is precisely what's needed to counter balance that other tall building next to Skydome. Building it in further in land won't accomplish that. That said, if Toronto wants good layering we'll end up needing a number of 400-600m buildings throughout the core. Building just one near the ACC won't get us there.

Beedok · #**542** Posted **Apr 16, 2014, 10:28 AM**

I would prefer not to see the CN 'counter balanced' any time soon. Towers like that look much better towering over the city and slightly off to the side of everything.

WhipperSnapper · #**543** Posted **Apr 16, 2014, 4:20 PM**

I'd rather have ten 15 storey buildings or eight 30 storey towers than one 600 metre megatall (the lunacy notwithstanding). Downtown needs more high rises to join the likes of Chicago and New York.

suburbanite · #**544** Posted **Apr 16, 2014, 4:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by isaidso

Do you mean like the CN Tower and Toronto? Putting a 400m+ building close to the waterfront is precisely what's needed to counter balance that other tall building next to Skydome. Building it in further in land won't accomplish that. That said, if Toronto wants good layering we'll end up needing a number of 400-600m buildings throughout the core. Building just one near the ACC won't get us there.

Except the CN tower isn't a building... it's a tower. Aesthetically, I much prefer a skyline to taper upwards from the waterfront. At the end of the day though, the market will decide where a 400m building will be located personal preferences be damned.

Beedok · #**545** Posted **Apr 16, 2014, 4:58 PM**

I'm going to say Hamilton. It's already had one roughly supertall proposal.

caltrane74 · #**546** Posted **Apr 16, 2014, 11:38 PM**

One Bloor Update by caltrane

Podium Levels Almost Complete?

isaidso · #**547** Posted **Apr 17, 2014, 12:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by suburbanite

Except the CN tower isn't a building... it's a tower.

That has little bearing on its visual impact. People pretend like a tower classification negates its presence on the skyline. It doesn't.

suburbanite · #**548** Posted **Apr 17, 2014, 4:18 PM**

It's very different in my eyes. Towers tend to be a landmark, a focal point of the skyline. Ask any Parisian if they think the Eiffel tower and Tour Montparnasse have the same visual impact and where they think each belong.

steveve · #**549** Posted **Apr 17, 2014, 5:44 PM**

I believe Aura's curved roof has been going up the entire day. New pieces of steel keep being added to form the inner western slope..

11:20am

1:37pm:

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Chadillaccc · #**550** Posted **Apr 17, 2014, 5:48 PM**

Awesome. I think the roof feature is going to turn Aura into a win, imo.

isaidso · #**551** Posted **Apr 17, 2014, 10:22 PM**

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Originally Posted by suburbanite

It's very different in my eyes. Towers tend to be a landmark, a focal point of the skyline. Ask any Parisian if they think the Eiffel tower and Tour Montparnasse have the same visual impact and where they think each belong.

So you're agreeing with me that it has visual impact and it isn't negated one iota because its a tower. Anything like the CN Tower or Taipei 101 needs other buildings of similar height so it doesn't stick out like a sore thumb.

Btw, if Montparnasse was as tall as the Eiffel Tower it would have similar visual impact in the skyline. It matters little that one is a tower and the other a building. That one has windows and the other doesn't has no bearing on whether I can see it.

caltrane74 · #**552** Posted **Apr 17, 2014, 10:57 PM**

I'm going down Yonge right now to check out Aura...thanks for the update steveve.

DrNest · #**553** Posted **Apr 17, 2014, 11:39 PM**

That top portion of Aura is really turning out to be great looking. I'm looking forward to seeing it with the roof finished.

isaidso · #**554** Posted **Apr 17, 2014, 11:46 PM**

I hope it ends up being as glorious as depicted in the renderings. The diametric wedges bring the whole form together imo.

caltrane74 · #**555** Posted **Apr 22, 2014, 11:06 PM**

Was actually a nice day yesterday, just a little hazy when I took this picture...

steveve · #**556** Posted **Apr 24, 2014, 5:41 PM**

AURA TORONTO

I've got a massive photo dump from today. Here's a few for now. I may or may not get a chance to post all of them, the rest are on my flickr if you are interested: https://www.flickr.com/photos/896844...th/13997518114

caltrane74 · #**557** Posted **Apr 24, 2014, 10:44 PM**

The framing of the metal roof element on the north side of the tower looks pretty much close to complete.

WhipperSnapper · #**558** Posted **Apr 24, 2014, 11:11 PM**

There's a lot of confusion over the roof element. At one point, it was to be over 20 metres tall however, I recall the last revision included a taller mechanical penthouse with a roughly 5 metres parapet completing the crown.

caltrane74 · #**559** Posted **Apr 24, 2014, 11:54 PM**

Yes, the mechanical penthouse appears to be waay taller than we expected, and the crown itself, probably empassing the mechanical levels is far shorter than we expected. But once all the glazing is completed around the roof and crown, we will likely not be able to see the difference from the rendering anyways.

Ramako · #**560** Posted **Apr 26, 2014, 4:20 AM**

Aura

_DSC3809 by BadPeter!, on Flickr