This is such renderporn, it needs a slap-bass soundtrack underneath it. Mods? I'm looking at you.

Speaking of PATH (not happening, I know), is Aura a) going to have an underground concourse to begin with, and if so, b) will it connect to College Park?

Right now we can confirm that it's a moderately large tent.

I think you mean 'serfs'.

Also, comes with complimentary pigeons.

No indication of what the base is like. Has it occurred to anyone that "Great Gulf!" sounds like an exclamation? Great Gulf! Those are some curvy balconies!

Look at the lettering on 'the mission'! The typography of the day was to die for. Or, in my case, to not yet be born for.

She raises a good point. I wonder if we should have one thread for actual updates and information, and another for endless fanboy arguments? I find the Transportation forums unreadable in general for this reason, so I usually stay away.

Oh, yuck! The damn thing looms over the Annex like you wouldn't believe. It's like a monolith when you take the Dupont bus down Bedford from Avenue. I didn't realise I had it in me to feel so much sympathy for Annex landowners, but man.

Hey! Don't speak ill of our departed Harvey's. Still a burger-shaped hole in my heart. True, Money Marts aren't neighborhood lynchpins, of course. Or Harvey's. But remember that Roy Square was home to around 40 businesses and organisations. And for every iffy one, there was another that added...

Because, as Jane Jacobs herself pointed out, you need old buildings for new uses. New buildings are expensive things, and the rents required to pay off mortgages are commensurately huge. New York is a city where a lot of the tall buildings are relatively ancient. But look at what occupies the...

My understanding is that where developers have built larger units at the urging of politicians, they just haven't sold well. (But the real-estate experts here would have to back me up.) It seems more sensible, at this stage in the game, to build condos in such a way that the units can be merged...

Well, what I'm saying, dude, is that Yonge south of Bloor has been vibrancy-challenged lately - perhaps because the area got bulldozed. Bulldozing and vibrancy have been sworn enemies for as long as either can remember. The effect of bulldozing city blocks is so powerful, it can even reach...

Wow. I'm still curious: what's so wrong with this design that it's reduced you to sputtering? It's all well and good to spin this into some kind of metaphysical riddle, but I really just want to know what you don't like about it. Because if you've got nothing concrete to offer, it really does...

Nicely done, Archivist. There was a moment there where I was checking the fonts to make sure it wasn't real.

Is that conjecture, 42, or wishful thinking? Do we know if there's any real correlation between design and sales?

Okay. So, affordable housing or not, what exactly is wrong with it? (And let's leave aside, for the moment, the issue of the lettering on the café.)

I think I speak for all of us when I say that we welcome your glut, and please glut more.

Wait, wait. ANOTHER Toronto Mike?

I don't know specifics; it was phrased as generically as "it will start within a month." This doesn't come from the developer's side, though.