BTW - compare the Burrrard Building's orginal cladding with the Shell Oil Building's cladding (site of 1133 West Georgia):
The Uniglobe Building at Pender & Bute was probably one of the last with this international style of cladding - but it too was reclad a couple of years ago. Pics gathered from Global Air Photos (2203 and 2007 could be the same, with different lighting, but I think I recall it be reclad again?). Note the common feature of the offset elevator core in each of these buildings (I'll bet fire code escape distances now prevent buidlings with offset cores).
The building on West Georgia with the Lasik centre is a nice international style building from the 60s or 70s. After that, the 70s went to brutalist concrete facades, brick facades and precast concrete and terrazzo facades.
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This is the Yaletown Park part of the Yaletown Park residential project. ..
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Would have been nice if the tree planters were raised with an edge you could sit on - i.e. like the circular Expo 86 planters.
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The station box for the Yaletown RAV/Canada Line station. I haven’t been by in a while and I was surprised to see the steel bracing.
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They had lots of delays there with soft soils. Plus flanking parking garages onboth sides probably means they could not tie back very far with anchor rods.
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The last shot looks back at part of the Yaletown neighbourhood. The amount of surface parking that still exists is amazing and underscores the point that the final build-out of Yaletown is still some ways off...
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Keep your eye on these parcels. Concord had originally proposed office space for these two sites (flanking the Smithe offramp) when the commercial zoning was swapped with the Spectrum site. Concord has since reapplied for residential on the site (according to signs posted).