[Jasonzed]

 

[someMidTowner]

Today:

 

[interchange42]

Yesterday day evening:

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[junctionist]

People complained about the uneven balconies, but it works as a design feature. The tower has a bold and rigid profile with the heavy wings on either side of the cylinder. Evenly spaced balconies would reinforce the rigidity to the point that the architecture would verge on oppressive, but uneven balconies soften it in a subtle and effortless way. That heavy texture to the cladding on the bottom contrasts with the smooth cladding of the cylinder. Not that Aura's architecture is particularly sophisticated, but it does seem like thought went into its various features. Too bad about the mall, though.

 

[greenleaf]

People complained about the uneven balconies, but it works as a design feature. The tower has a bold and rigid profile with the heavy wings on either side of the cylinder. Evenly spaced balconies would reinforce the rigidity to the point that the architecture would verge on oppressive, but uneven balconies soften it in a subtle and effortless way. That heavy texture to the cladding on the bottom contrasts with the smooth cladding of the cylinder. Not that Aura's architecture is particularly sophisticated, but it does seem like thought went into its various features. Too bad about the mall, though.

That's quite generous of you, junctionist. I do appreciate the well-articulated alternative viewpoint though. If we're gonna live with this beast forever, we have to make peace with it somehow.

 

[Red Mars]

Pic taken April 20, 2014

 

[johnwood]

check out that super sonic UFO in the top right corner and don't tell me that's a bird because that's no bird.

 

[BrianSolo]

It's Superman!

 

[khris]

Looks like the photo was taken through dirty glass.

 

[kotsy]

That's just the smog

 

[kris]

Looks like the photo was taken through dirty glass.

Here I fixed it for you

 

[khris]

Here I fixed it for you

For me?

 

[ushahid]

everyone thanks for the beautiful shots of Aura.

 

[interchange42]

People complained about the uneven balconies, but it works as a design feature. The tower has a bold and rigid profile with the heavy wings on either side of the cylinder. Evenly spaced balconies would reinforce the rigidity to the point that the architecture would verge on oppressive, but uneven balconies soften it in a subtle and effortless way. That heavy texture to the cladding on the bottom contrasts with the smooth cladding of the cylinder. Not that Aura's architecture is particularly sophisticated, but it does seem like thought went into its various features. Too bad about the mall, though.

It doesn't work even slightly. The unevenly spaced balconies are not a design feature, they're a lack-of-design flaw, tacked on to inelegant orthogonal volumes which overwhelm the more graceful upper portion, which should have dominated. When the extra 3 storeys were added, they should have been added to the upper tower.

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[someMidTowner]

Steel is now up on the east side of the mechanical level. Sorry, no photos.