Canada's 10 Tallest U/C

[Innsertnamehere]

CASA III also has the smallest floorplate.

[steveve]

Originally Posted by KnoxfordGuy

I've been wondering this for quite some time. What is it with the obsession that Toronto has with balconies? I feel they make a building seem temporary looking. not sure why. Just makes them seem almost cheap.
I don't see this going in in Chicago or New York...but maybe I'm just not looking hard enough. Just seems Toronto has more than its fair share.

I agree. Balconies are the worse imo when they're wrapped around a box. It leads to an uninteresting and boring design that makes it worse when people dump they're garbage on them. They can look like slums imo.
Probably the worst wrap around condo built recently (recently is what makes it terrible), i think it was built in 2008/07 is pulse condos @ Yonge/Finch. Cheap green glass, terrible podium, awkward positioning against YONGE street, short stubby height, TWIN towers, etc... doesn't get quite worse than this.



Source: http://livehigh.com/uploads/condos/s...on-Group-1.JPG

Originally Posted by vegeta_skyline

I've always thought Casa looks rather bland & fat(I know its not really a wide tower, it just appears as such).
I'm actually more hopefully for the 2nd & 3rd ones. At least they'll really soar with their thinner portions and greater height so as to distract me from the blandness of its windowall facade.

It looks slim from a distance (like from the CN tower), but I know what you mean, from it's east/west sides (like Charles St), it can appear bulky up close.

Casa II/III look like improved versions of Casa I, almost like it evolved on the design board, it just so happens the first iteration ended up being built, and they're building 2 design progressions afterwards. Real-life scale model studies I guess lol.

[caltrane74]

I don't mind balconies, they are not totally offensive, and are a practical way of getting more out of your units in the short summer and spring months.

Plus they count towards the buildings amenity space, a plus for developers.

[Gresto]

Originally Posted by vegeta_skyline

I've always thought Casa looks rather bland & fat(I know its not really a wide tower, it just appears as such).
I'm actually more hopefully for the 2nd & 3rd ones. At least they'll really soar with their thinner portions and greater height so as to distract me from the blandness of its windowall facade.

I agree that II and III look better, at least judging from the renders. I was just using Casa the 1st as an example of wrap-around balconies ameliorating what would otherwise have been an anemic, textureless glass yawnfest.

[isaidso]

Originally Posted by steveve

Source: http://livehigh.com/uploads/condos/s...on-Group-1.JPG

Yikes that part of town is UGLY!

[vegeta_skyline]

Originally Posted by isaidso

At street level CASA I is well executed.

No complaints there, the podium does indeed look very refined.

Originally Posted by Gresto

I agree that II and III look better, at least judging from the renders. I was just using Casa the 1st as an example of wrap-around balconies ameliorating what would otherwise have been an anemic, textureless glass yawnfest.

Yes I'd agree in Casa's case it's the main thing that gives the tower any real distinction. Well, that and the oversized hat.

[Surrealplaces]

Brookfield Place by Construction Mafia, on Flickr


Brookfield Place by Construction Mafia, on Flickr

[caltrane74]

That's a big hole....

Also, UT Reports that Cladding is going up on One Bloor. We will get to see if it's gonna be a dud or a star shortly....

[steveve]

Aura Taken today:

[caltrane74]

The longer it takes for this one to finish up, the more I lose interest. I might in the slightest be looking forward to the steelframe mechanical levels, whenever they do get around to building that.

One Bloor is already so much more fascinating, we scored a big zero today with the cladding going up, and then being covered in tarp almost immediately, but we really have to wait for the balcony cladding to see how this one will hit the most important intersection in the city.

Peek-a-boo! I fooled YOU!

hawc at Urbantoronto

[middeljohn]

You can already begin to see the curved design. Awesome!

[uzi]

http://www.google.ca/imgres?hl=en&bi...tart=0&ndsp=36

I am lost in the beauty of the building.

[uzi]

and why the hell there is no progress in the construction of Aura.

[FrankieFlowerpot]

Originally Posted by uzi

and why the hell there is no progress in the construction of Aura.

There is plenty going on at Aura. Buildings take longer when they get to the top

[softee]

It's gone up at least another level within the last week or two.

[caltrane74]

In the fall of last year, I predicted that Aura would topout in February.

Looks like I'm gonna be off by at least a month, most likely two.

[uzi]

two or three more weeks of cold weather and then the construction will speed up.

[caltrane74]

Originally Posted by uzi

two or three more weeks of cold weather and then the construction will speed up.

Actually, only one more week of cold weather. And then first or second week of March the temperature will shoot up to 0 - or low singles on a consistent basis.

[uzi]

I cant wait for spring to come. it is the most beautiful season of all seasons.

[caltrane74]

I went downtown in the Polar Vortex