Canadian City Proposals

[Andrewjm3D]

Originally Posted by trueviking

^ do you have a link to that last one?

Here you are sir. http://www.architectsalliance.com/portfolio/in-progress/nhbrc

[1ajs]

interesting stuff

[caltrane74]

Aa is clearly the superior Architect and Designer. The flow of the designs is clean and uniform. Core takes more chances, and it shows the most in some of the messy short condos you've linked to.

[urbandreamer]

Originally Posted by urbandreamer

Another gorgeous Cardinal Hardy Architects project?

Confirmed by RenderPornStar

[WhipperSnapper]

Originally Posted by caltrane74

Aa is clearly the superior Architect and Designer. The flow of the designs is clean and uniform. Core takes more chances, and it shows the most in some of the messy short condos you've linked to.

I'm not a big fan with many of Core's previous designs in how they meet the street. They have greatly improved with the newest designs though.

[Dylan Leblanc]

Solo District, Burnaby

http://www.solodistrict.com/

[Chadillaccc]

Not bad I guess, at least they're not trying to be interesting and dramatically failing. This is the area around Lougheed mall right? Or is this the one at Willingdon and Lougheed?

[yaletown_fella]

Looks like the developer is attempting to create some sort of pedestrian mall between the towers. I also assume the HUGE podium of the left most tower will accommodate some office space.

[Metro-One]

You assume correctly. Demolition is already occurring on site. The first phase is the north west tower at 45 floors, the second phase is then the north east tower with the office podium at 48 floors.

[Travis007]

PSV Condos, Mississauga, Ontario

Next phase of Amacon's Parkside Village development.

From BuzzBuzzHome: http://www.buzzbuzzhome.com/psv-condos-at-parkside-village

[dleung]

Point towers should be outlawed in Vancouver suburbs. If you can't build them nice, stick with mid-rises, which won't ruin the city/mountain scape.

[vanman]

Richmond has enough midrises to more than make up for the rest of the metro. Besides, wide and squat towers are what block the most views, not tall and slender ones.

[Andrewjm3D]

Those Solo District condos look pretty wide to me and a tired design. I do like the podium on the boxier tower though. When I first saw that render I thought it was in North York. As for that PSV condo, damn that looks awful.

[dleung]

Originally Posted by vanman

Richmond has enough midrises to more than make up for the rest of the metro. Besides, wide and squat towers are what block the most views, not tall and slender ones.

Those aren't midrises, they're stumpy high-rises... the worst kind. I mean mid-rises with a distinctly mid-rise typology even if they're as tall as the ones in Richmond.


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Lower-quality versions of the above are much more justified in medium-density centers like Coquitlam or Surrey, compared to a tower-in-a-park that has the same density, but mars the landscape with a bland tower that no one can avoid seeing. Historically, to build high meant ambition, and exclusivity, hence they only things poking out of the skyline are of good quality. Now that it's easy to build up, it translates to repeating floorplates and cheap views for all. That's a tragedy as far as aesthetics go.

[Dmajackson]

Halifax Regional Council has apparently let United Gulf move forward with public consultations on their 48 storey Skye Towers proposal. Absolutely nobody thought they would even consider allowing this to move forward since the height is twice the current maximum allowed.



Staff Report (source of photo). This has all of the detailed information

[vanman]

Lower-quality versions of the above are much more justified in medium-density centers like Coquitlam or Surrey, compared to a tower-in-a-park that has the same density, but mars the landscape with a bland tower that no one can avoid seeing. Historically, to build high meant ambition, and exclusivity, hence they only things poking out of the skyline are of good quality. Now that it's easy to build up, it translates to repeating floorplates and cheap views for all. That's a tragedy as far as aesthetics go

There's a multitude of tall dull buildings all across NA, this is nothing new. 1930s NY was the pinnacle of perfection, everything has been downhill from there.We both know that the view is king in Vancouver. There's almost no place in this city that you could rubber stamp a 25 story glass condo and not command majestic views. Developers nowadays reach for the view, moreso than prestige IMO. Case in point:

The Austin in Coquitlam. 19 stories in the middle of nowhere. Looks pretty damn nice to me.


And where are these "towers in the park" you speak of? The majority of suburban condos being built north of the Fraser are nothing of the sort.

[dleung]

Ok... towers with extremely low-density podiums and crappy street interface. The point I was making was about achieving the same density in a less unsightly way.

We all know what developers want, but I'm saying there should be regulations restricting tower development to only the very best-quality designs, and only in designated high-rise nodes that demand much greater density, of which I think Coquitlam is an ill-fitting choice. Most of these 30-40 storey towers in the suburbs have less than 5 FSR... that can be easily achieved with a mid-rise that doesn't ruin the views for everyone else.

This obsession with the view is a localized phenonemon, so if you level the playing field for every project within a certain market range, it's not a problem. Personally I find a view of suburbia from 30-stories up much more boring than beneath the canopy of the tree level.

[armorand93]

Originally Posted by Dmajackson

Halifax Regional Council has apparently let United Gulf move forward with public consultations on their 48 storey Skye Towers proposal. Absolutely nobody thought they would even consider allowing this to move forward since the height is twice the current maximum allowed.


Staff Report (source of photo). This has all of the detailed information

Maybe they're desperate for development, status or the sheer fact they'll have this monster welcoming ships to Canada

[whiteford]

i would love to see that go ahead. that would look great and could boost future proposals to be even taller. i hate hight restictions entirely.

[caltrane74]

From Buzzbuzzhome



Parkside Village in Mississauga

http://www.buzzbuzzhome.com/psv-condos-a...s/all/2012_02_21_12_38_07_psvcondos.jpeg