maestro said:
Just look at the stats

Mirvish, One Yonge, YSL all place in the Top 40 in the world for floor count. For height, YSL, isn't in the Top 100 and the other two are around the 250s. The only one that is anywhere near equal in both categories is The One being in the Top 200 for floor count and arounds the 250s in height. That also means Aura and One Bloor are in the Top 200 for floor count.

You want dizzying height , well, 9 foot ceiling with a mechanical box on top isn't going to do it. Underground parking and without strict 1:1 minimums doesn't help either.
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Stats schmatz, who cares if we are in the top 40, 100, or even 250, most people in the Americas and Europe don't give much thought to those statistics anyways, but whats happening in there own hood
Id take a bunch of 150-300m bldgs. here in TO any day over a few of those megatalls
 
LOL

It wasn't at all about where the towers place in the world. It was about how short we comparable build to other cities. Very low ceiling/slab heights. Few decorative crowns. No large above ground 1:1 parkades serving as a podium. It makes building that 300 metre tower a lot more difficult here. You want a 300 metre tower. You also need to appreciate the dynamics.
 
in some of the Asian cities the ceiling height for luxury condos is as high as office builidngs in N.America and they only have like 1 or 2 condos per floor.
 
Another view of the building - 957 units proposed

https://twitter.com/DavidOikawa1/status/836598155953192960

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Yeah, I'm not seeing any meaningful relationship between podium and heritage, nor between boxy podium and shapely tower.
 
The podium looks like an afterthought. Hopefully it will be improved with some feedback from the DRP.
 
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