BrianSolo
UT Member
Yup... lets open retail stores with no signage, so you have to guess what they are selling inside. If you guess right, you get 20% off.
Yup... lets open retail stores with no signage, so you have to guess what they are selling inside. If you guess right, you get 20% off.
SP!RE
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No signage? Absolutely nobody has asked for buildings with no signage. It's just the plastering of this one with it that is a bit confusing. There is absolutely np reason why you need so many signs (aka two a few metres from each other on the north side.) Just doesn't make sense.
khris
Senior Member
Does anyone have a photo of the north sign showing these two signs beside each other? I haven't seen a photo showing this yet.
SP!RE
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This shows one of the signs on the north side... the other sign is outside of the frame of this image, but is closer to the park. You can also see in person where there is space for more signs above these two.
BrianSolo
UT Member
I think the signs are quite tastefully done.
Mississauga Slim
Active Member
This sums up, I think, what people will ultimately say about Aura once it is finally done. Both fans and detractors alike will look at it, shrug, and say "well . . . it is what it is."
Hanlansboy
Active Member
Have to say, the lighting used in the future stores at Aura are reminiscent of the blinding god awful fluorescent lights at the local Biway (remember that store? Yeah, I'm old) my mom use to shop at when I was a kid, not becoming of a building reputed as Aura, not at all, it cheapens what is suppose to be luxury, sigh.....
SP!RE
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Oh I agree about the signs themselves. I just feel that there are too many, especially on the north elevation.
Tewder
Senior Member
I'm not sure what people were expecting... mood lighting for buying sheets?
As for the signage, it is far less obnoxious than I was expecting... which is unfortunate, in my opinion.
As for the signage, it is far less obnoxious than I was expecting... which is unfortunate, in my opinion.
LowPolygon
Senior Member
in this case, gotta wonder about the lovers
67Cup
Active Member
Only on UT could one sign, plus another that is not even in the frame of the sample photo be called "plastering."
flonicky
Senior Member
When I walked by the Aura sales office yesterday I looked in the window to see if the two people at the desk were on this forum ... but they weren't.
SP!RE
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Or in any architectural school or anywhere else that has good taste and an idea of what the role of signage and wayfinding is.
Hanlansboy
Active Member
I expect softer, not blinding, lighting. Mock me if you will, but lighting can play a huge role establishing the quality of the store, a store in the much hyped Aura is deserving of more then the same lighting as Walmart. Sometimes it's the little things hat can make the biggest difference, nuff' said.
67Cup
Active Member
Perhaps so. But they would also have to be given to wild flights of hyperbole.