[Halifax] 1874 Brunswick Street | 12 fl | 34 m | Cancelled
This will be a 12 storey hotel on the corner of Brunswick and Gottingen.
Report presented to the municipal Design Review Committee: https://www.halifax.ca/sites/default...3_reduced2.pdf Rendering: https://imageshack.com/a/img921/5615/Pf4yHj.jpg |
Interesting project, but the architecture is a little disappointing based on the renderings. For such a prominent spot I was hoping for something that made a statement, not the typical mishmash of shapes and materials that seems to be popular today. Perhaps something that would accentuate the flatiron-esque layout of the corner might do it justice.
Also noted that there will only be 12 parking stalls in the building, although the building will have 171 units. Presumably they will provide valet-style offsite parking for their guests? |
I agree about the architectural design. Hopefully it will evolve and be simplified.
Still a big step up from what's there now though, and another small step toward filling in the gaps between downtown and the North End. |
Here's the St. John's version. Presumably this will be of the same ilk....
http://www.olympic-construction.nf.c...ect/jag-hotel/ |
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But you're right, it will be a large improvement over the current situation regardless. |
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Heads up, Halifax. |
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I thought mention of this project was posted here last year for this corner... Edit: Post was moved from the General thread. No longer has relevance. |
The renderings make it look like a sad amalgam of everything that exists on that block with some purple spandrel thrown in just to make it worse. What I feel they should have gone for is something like the Vic or the Pearl - visually striking and making good use of the site. Those (hopefully very conceptual) renderings look tacky and hideous IMO and waste one of the only remaining opportunities to build something on that block that's both large-ish and not a dull slab. This is fronting the Citadel and will (presumably) be there for decades; we should be demanding better than this. With the right materials (and colours) it has potential to be a decent building but I'd hesitate to say a great one.
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It doesn't address the corner or the slope very well. A lot of older buildings in Halifax have (or had) elegant corner entrances or ornamentation, windows and storefronts that follow the slope of the street, etc. The cheap, poor equivalent is a plain concrete plinth.
Hopefully the DRC insisted on some changes. |
This is going before the DRC tonight. Report: https://www.halifax.ca/sites/default...0725drc911.pdf
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Passed the DRC.....
HALIFAX—A committee has approved a 12-storey hotel for a prominent site in downtown Halifax, though there are still some details to iron out. Halifax’s design review committee met Thursday evening to consider the proposal for the corner of Brunswick and Gottingen streets from Fougere Menchenton Architecture Inc. on behalf of Steele Hotels Ltd., owned by Newfoundland Capital Corp. founder John Steele. Steele’s company operates six hotels in Newfoundland. This hotel will be branded like the JAG in St. John’s — “a masterpiece within the heart and soul of North America’s oldest city,” according to its website. “This is a very high-end brand,” Ron Fougere, president of Fougere Menchenton, told the committee. https://www.thestar.com/halifax/2019...n-halifax.html |
The rendering in the article is much better than what was in the report:
https://images.thestar.com/aUX5VmJlv...le_hotel25.jpg I still think the corner is a bit weak but I like the taller lower floors. The public benefit portion for the height bonus is an aboriginal themed gallery. There was some discussion of whether the gallery space provided is good enough to qualify or if it would be redundant with the Friendship Centre nearby. This argument seems a bit weak since the benefit is based on a dollar value that the developer is exceeding, and if anything being next door to the Friendship Centre might make this more valuable since it would be easy to visit both. It's good that they're not proposing more lighthouse statues. |
A better public benefit would be an enclosed escalator for the uphill sidewalk adjacent on the south side.
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