Thanks for the pics! This is finally starting to rise and get some definable shape. Will be a great one to see rise, and almost missed due to it's relative distance from the main area of new highrises. I go downtown a lot but rarely do I venture to that part. What is the status of all those other proposals in this area (the White Spot lot, that one on the corner of Georgia that is currently a 1 storey commerical building and fountain, then those passive houses on Alberni that looked kind of New York-y? Are any of them approved yet?
This is going to start getting pretty exciting over the next couple of months with progress photos. The shape, pardon the pun, will really start to take shape.
You've got to give it to Ian Gillespie. Despite his ability to skirt the city's byelaws and restrictions (I'm looking at you, Telus building with box hanging over the street) and to get put to the top of the waiting list, I definitely am glad that he's building interesting buildings in the city. He's brought international architects to the city and those structures add some interest to an otherwise quite homogeneous skyline.
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(I'm looking at you, Telus building with box hanging over the street)
The official architectural term for those boxes are "Toderian's Love Handles".
(Word-for-word quote of what an architect said to me.)
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