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Old Posted Jul 15, 2013, 3:49 PM
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I'm just not a fan of balconies that extend beyond the building at all. It's lazy and inappropriate design for a signature main street. They should have been internally integrated like the balconies on the south side.

The tacked on podium balconies are even worse than the uneven floor height.
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It could have been so much better. It was built to maximize profits..

That's what WS says anyway...
     
     
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Old Posted Jul 18, 2013, 12:40 AM
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caltrane74 - Any idea how tall it is now? Maybe 650 feet? Nice updates by the way... I've been lurking on this one.
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Old Posted Jul 18, 2013, 4:19 AM
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caltrane74 - Any idea how tall it is now? Maybe 650 feet? Nice updates by the way... I've been lurking on this one.
18 floors and 6 mechanical, so 24 total and yes about 240 feet to go.
     
     
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Old Posted Jul 18, 2013, 10:23 AM
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Old Posted Jul 20, 2013, 12:18 AM
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Strange, I don't see a tower in this pic. All I can see is an attractive woman in a gray skirt. More of her, please.
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In furtherance of Yaletown's lament......
......*Why* the uneven floor heights in the first place?
This seems exclusively unique to Toronto.
     
     
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Old Posted Jul 21, 2013, 2:00 PM
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In furtherance of Yaletown's lament......
......*Why* the uneven floor heights in the first place?
This seems exclusively unique to Toronto.
To understand uneven floor heights is to understand Toronto. This is a very conservative and puritanical city. Nothing is built to be gorgeous like Chicago, things here are built to be cost efficient and maximize profits. This building was built as a profit centre for a faceless Real Estate Corporation. That's how it is in other buildings, and that is the Toronto way.
     
     
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This is a very conservative and puritanical city
Toronto developers often take a conservative, cautious approach to their buildings, but to say that the city itself is conservative and puritanical is far from accurate. Toronto is one of the most liberal big cities on the planet.
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Toronto developers often take a conservative, cautious approach to their buildings, but to say that the city itself is conservative and puritanical is far from accurate. Toronto is one of the most liberal big cities on the planet.
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one of the few lamentable things about such a broad, lengthy construction boom like you have in toronto is that the traditional relationship between neighborhoods and landmark structures is lost or at least greatly diminished. this tower, aura, built in 1980 would for an entire generation have dominated the yonge street landscape and informed wayfinding/placefinding in the hood. as it is, it'll be only a few years before it's just one of a number of towers in the corridor threading downtown to bloor street. a different function for a different era.
     
     
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The top portion of Aura is really turning out well
     
     
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Old Posted Jul 30, 2013, 11:23 AM
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Old Posted Jul 30, 2013, 8:23 PM
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The renders suggested far better glazing, but this building will still look good once it's finished.
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