Aurora - Edmonton

[Coldrsx]

Aurora



The Aurora Project consists of 2.886ha of land between 105th Avenue and 106th Avenue and within the area bounded by 104th Street and 101st Street. The area is currently part of Precinct C in the Central McDougal Community DC1, which was approved in December of 2005 by City Council. This submission supports an amendment to that DC1 regulation primarily to allow fewer, taller towers on the property based on the basic principal that a large consolidated parcel of land such as this allows the master planning of towers so that the same residential densities can be achieved while improving ground level open space and reducing the shadow density to the surrounding community.

Site Area: 2.886 ha
Total Number of Residential Units @ 500 units per ha; 1443 units
Density Zone 1: 2 towers (23 stories and 28 stories) and 1, 8 storey mid-rise
558 units
Density Zone 2: 1, 23 storey tower and 1, 3-5 storey low rise 247 units
Density Zone 3: 1, 17-storey tower 135 units
Density Zone 4: 1, 28 storey tower and 1, 3-5 storey low rise 282 units
Density Zone 5: 1, 25 storey tower and 1, 2-5 storey low rise 221 units
Commercial Area: Main floor, primarily along 102 street 25,000 sq.ft.
Parking: Underground with some surface parking for Commercial and visitors
Road closures: A portion on lane between 103rd St. and 102ndSt. A portion of 102nd St. that will be narrowed but remain open to public traffic.

[ExcaliburKid]

Great project. Will help start the filling in of many ugly holes on the North Edge.

[SHOFEAR]

I was hoping we would be seeing sales or something by now...

[Coldrsx]

^soon

[JAH]

so how many years is this project spread out?

[Coldrsx]

^if i recall they said 10...but i would bet more like 5-6.

[JAH]

Aurora along with Stationlands will really make the northern edge of downtown look great. Imagine a nice Grand Prix shot from the Muni Airport with all those cranes

[SHOFEAR]

It's a little tought to pass judgement on it without seeing it in detail. But given the past work of BZK it should be pretty good. Each tower could be about ten floors taller though.

I vote meh. I the location, but the design is still subpar in my books. Actually boring. From the drawing I worry about what this will look like from street level. I think the design could have been more progressive...with slight design improvements.

[Hardhatdan]

Originally Posted by brento79

I vote meh. I the location, but the design is still subpar in my books. Actually boring. From the drawing I worry about what this will look like from street level. I think the design could have been more progressive...with slight design improvements.

Are we looking at the same buildings? These buildings look great!

[ssiguy]

For us Edmonton morons, where exactly is this?

Anywhere near Jasper?

Please give me a general area suchas Oliver etc. Thanks.

[Coldrsx]

102st 105ave-106ave

[JAH]

Originally Posted by ssiguy

For us Edmonton morons, where exactly is this?

Anywhere near Jasper?

Please give me a general area suchas Oliver etc. Thanks.

just north of Bacarat and west of Chinatown

[Kevin_foster]

Like it, except there is no excuse for hand-sketches these days.

Let's fire up them "fancy 'puters/drawin' machines" and get some vibrance.

[IntotheWest]

Yaletown?

Looks good.

[Calgarian]

It would be good if all the towers didn't look the same

[Western Spaghetti]

I voted 'Meh', but only because I can't say that I love it. It's somewhere in between.
Looks good, in the renderings. The final design will have more accurate picture of metrials and massing.

[SteveP]

This project may end up being great, but the drawing is too conceptual to tell what it'll really be like.

P.S. You should have put an "I like it" option in the poll.

[big W]

Is this in the Edmonton compliations thread?

[Coldrsx]

this will be the leading edge development we need downtown to raise the bar....kinda like century park and strathern.