Record-breaking heights
At the north west corner of Yonge & Gerrard streets, Aura Condo is the tallest residential condominium tower in Canada. When it was completed in 2014, standing 272m tall with 79 storeys, it also held the prestigious title of the tallest residential tower in North America. Since then though, it lost its “tallest North American status” when 432 Park Avenue, facing Central Park in New York city, was completed in 2016 with a height of 425m or 96 floors. There is a bit of a controversy on exactly when the Aura Condo tower was demoted from the top of the skyscraper list: some argue that it was after One57 (formerly known as Carnegie 57) was built in New York, which was also at the end of 2014 (306m tall with 75 floors). The controversy is due to the fact that despite being a taller tower, only 75 floors is still shorter than the Toronto Aura Condo tower’s 79 floors. The residents at Aura are still happy to know that they will keep living in the tallest residential condo in Canada until “The One” (the new condo development at the south west corner of Yonge and Bloor) takes the torch for that title when completed in roughly 2023 with a height of 306m and 85 storeys. By then, Aura will have had over 8 years of claim to being the tallest condo in Toronto and also the tallest condo in Canada.Eye-catching architecture
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