601 Beach Crescent | 166m | 56 Fl | Proposed
 

I'm personally hoping it's a mirror tower to Vancouver House. Anyone else going to check this out on May 14th? I'm curious if they have any renders or further details on height, etc.

https://scontent.fyvr4-1.fna.fbcdn.n...4e&oe=5B97EAB4

More details on the site can be found in Changing City's excellent recap in the Rental Thread:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/newr...eply&p=8178085

Hmm, JYOM Architecture.

Never heard of them. Is this the first major Vancouver project proposed by a Chinese architecture firm?

I'm certainly very curious, definitely mark me in attendance at this open house.

Hm, I have no idea how whatnext made that appear straight after I put the site history summary on the rental thread, as he noted.

JYOM seem to have another project in Richmond for Pinnacle called Capstan Village Center and a mysterious "Decotiis Residential Villa" is listed with no details. Almost all their other work seems to be in China, although their website (which shows a very young group of people) says "Completed design projects are located in the United States, Canada, Southeast Asia, and China". They list an office on Cambie Street.

Note that the 601 Beach Cres. site comes right to Beach along its southern border,
so the tower may be oriented more to the south than Vancouver House.

There are a couple of sleek looking towers on the JYOM website - (Civil Aviation Center and Marriott Wuxi).
Looking at Pinnacle's One Yonge project in Toronto for guidance (as opposed to Pinnacle's Vancouver projects),
I could see them proposing a sleek tapered tower with a conventional floorpate (square with curved corners)
on the southern end of the site.

It'll be interesting to see if they propose a tower as wide on it's southern face as Vancouver House - to form a symmetrical gateway.
If they do that, that may mean a triangular floorplate - but the angled side of a triangular floorplate would face northwest, rather than directly to English Bay.
A square or rectangular floorplate (of the same width as Vancouver House) would require a lot more FSR to get to the same height as Vancouver House.
A square floorplate building closer to Beach Ave. than Vancouver House could catch views of English Bay to the south of Vancouver House.

Context Plan from Vancouver House rezoning application.
Seems like there's a bias for a trapezoidal / triangular floorplate.

https://i.imgur.com/4DV2sgE.jpg
http://rezoning.vancouver.ca/applica...howe/index.htm

I wish I had such power! :haha:

Pinnacle have a very poor reputation for designs in Vancouver (they are notoriously cheap "value engineers"), so hopefully the new architect and prominent site mean they are treating this one differently.

Feb.26 '18, my pic
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/3OPWW4.jpg

Because one always turns to a Chinese company when you’re looking to build in quality rather than cut costs?!

their work looks abysmal

This is what Pinnacle is building at One Yonge in Toronto, using Hariri Pontarini Architects.

http://urbantoronto.ca/database/proj...acle-one-yonge

I'm hoping the Vancouver tower is similar.

Wow those towers look spectacular!

These are amazing.

What a game change on the Toronto skyline too!

I'm feeling pretty jealous. Imagine something like that in Vancouver, even on a smaller scale.

Here is to hoping someone like Holborn does something this scale on Hudson Bay site and carpark next door!

How can they (or anyone else) do anything ambitious in Vancouver if the city’s so-called leaders won’t allow them?

Well if we really want to start seeing such projects or something closer to them in Vancouver we really need to start making our voices heard much more than we already are, especially after just learning that the Butterfly and adjacent tower were going to be our city's tallest towers until another layer of shadowing height restrictions were arbitrarily slapped onto them (despite the fact the areas they would have shadowed are already shadowed by tree canopies)

Especially given all the new development potential around our major hubs (and so not be major hubs) something needs to give.

Any renders?

Nope. I did my best, but they understandably don't want to release any images, or even a description yet. That said, I'll be posting some information, likely tomorrow morning, that will make more than a few people here rather happy.

Huh? Wasn't this a public meeting?