Canadian City Proposals II

[gaviscon]

Vancouver - 2315 West 4th Avenue
West 4th Safeway site


https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/2315...lopment-design


https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/2315...lopment-design


https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/2315...lopment-design



https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/2315...lopment-design


https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/2315...lopment-design

[J.OT13]

That's a nice mid rise in Vancouver. I love the street level; very reminiscent of streetcar suburb main streets.

[csbvan]

Originally Posted by J.OT13

That's a nice mid rise in Vancouver. I love the street level; very reminiscent of streetcar suburb main streets.

Given that it is located, and filling a big gap, on a key streetcar suburb main street, I think that they really nailed the retail experience. What I like about it is that it maintains and expands the existing grocery store use, but actually tucks it behind the small scale retail fronting the high street. Only the grocery store entrance faces the street (at the corner).

[Echoes]

Saskatoon Central Library - revised final design

Foundation work is now underway.



















https://saskatooncentrallibrary.ca/d...uction-update/

[SFUVancouver]

Originally Posted by Echoes

Saskatoon Central Library - revised final design

Just a helpful suggestion, postimages.org is a fantastic and simple to use image hosting site that lets you resize images with a simple drop-down interface. It's like how imageshack and imgur used to be once upon a time.

[Echoes]

Originally Posted by SFUVancouver

Just a helpful suggestion, postimages.org is a fantastic and simple to use image hosting site that lets you resize images with a simple drop-down interface. It's like how imageshack and imgur used to be once upon a time.

Thanks SFU!

[hipster duck]

The Kits Safeway redevelopment is fine, but it's not exactly swinging for the fences.

That's what developers built in the area over 20 years ago, when land costs were substantially cheaper and nobody had any idea that a Skytrain station would be built within walking distance.

[O-tacular]

That library in Saskatoon looks amazing! Interior reminds me a bit of Calgary's central library.

[J.OT13]

Originally Posted by csbvan

Given that it is located, and filling a big gap, on a key streetcar suburb main street, I think that they really nailed the retail experience. What I like about it is that it maintains and expands the existing grocery store use, but actually tucks it behind the small scale retail fronting the high street. Only the grocery store entrance faces the street (at the corner).

They did that at the W/E II in Gatineau as well, to a certain degree. It's a good way to do it to avoid wasting some good street frontage.


https://groupeheafey.com/wp-content/...ry-2024-EN.pdf

[trueviking]

saskatoon library looks way better in the final renderings that the initial concept drawings did.

[Coldrsx]

A pretty substantial, albeit concept*, of a new expansion of one of our major Downtown Colleges.

[Dmajackson]

WINDSOR AND YOUNG - This is the long vacant lot that curves around Windsor and Young Streets next to CFB Halifax - Willow Park. If this was built tomorrow these would be the tallest buildings in Halifax at 40 floors.


HalifaxDevelopments.ca (Photo by David Jackson)

[someone123]

Originally Posted by Dmajackson

WINDSOR AND YOUNG - This is the long vacant lot that curves around Windsor and Young Streets next to CFB Halifax - Willow Park. If this was built tomorrow these would be the tallest buildings in Halifax at 40 floors.

I don't really care for the building design but this is in a former industrial area that's developing into a high-density node near the bridges, sort of like Ste-Foy in Quebec City. Having an area like this with a 30 storey building already makes the city feel a lot bigger. 30-40 floors is becoming a common development pattern in Halifax now that is permitted by planning rules in many areas. It's the equivalent of what 15-25 floors was in the 2000's and 2010's.

I wonder if the scale of these developments really comes across in the updates. There's another triple 30+ storey tower complex being built on the Dartmouth side across from this and there are a bunch of major developments beyond that, such as 5 new towers going in just around Hollis Street downtown. The city already feels transformed compared to 2015 and there are enough excavation sites around that there should be a much bigger change by 2030. These are going into pre-war, already pedestrian-friendly urban areas.

Robie and Quinpool is another area that's changing radically, with a new hospital under construction, 2 new towers, and another triple 30 storey tower development planned there. That area was a storefront retail strip with a few 12 storey or so towers back in 2015.

All this development will change the calculus for higher-order transit on the peninsula, but I wonder if NS is politically "ready" to build something more ambitious in that area, or if there will still be a one-size-fits-all attitude that prescribes buses and highways. I don't think that something like an LRT line with a couple underground stations will be beyond the pale in 2030's Halifax, but it would require a shift in mentality to accept that dense urban neighbourhoods with 30 storey buildings have distinct needs from rural areas and subdivisions.

[WhipperSnapper]

Boring multi-tower on podium block with accompanying architecture highlighted by triplets. Forgivable because it's a skyline booster and 30 is inherently more urban than 15 and will put pressure on high order transit upgrades through population increases.

[kool maudit]

Originally Posted by someone123

I don't really care for the building design but this is in a former industrial area that's developing into a high-density node near the bridges, sort of like Ste-Foy in Quebec City. Having an area like this with a 30 storey building already makes the city feel a lot bigger. 30-40 floors is becoming a common development pattern in Halifax now that is permitted by planning rules in many areas. It's the equivalent of what 15-25 floors was in the 2000's and 2010's.

That area is a really interesting spot for this. There is a lot of potential in that area bounded by Young, Windsor, Robie and North. It's weirdly central in a way that hasn't been seized upon yet.

[Nouvellecosse]

Originally Posted by kool maudit

That area is a really interesting spot for this. There is a lot of potential in that area bounded by Young, Windsor, Robie and North. It's weirdly central in a way that hasn't been seized upon yet.

It's so central that I wish there was more planned than just residential. I'd like to see perhaps some large retail, a cinema, a bowling alley a library, or some other multi-functional use included with residential on top. A library in particular could be interesting as there's only two libraries on the peninsula (other than university libraries) despite the population continuously growing.

[Nouvellecosse]

^ Not bad. No blue spandrel and the balconies are very inconspicuous. I don't love the podiums as I'd prefer a larger podium that fits the shape of the street curve but overall pretty solid.

[Maldive]

280 Commissioners Street | 147.05m | 45s | Tepfam | Hariri Pontarini l pre-construction

45 and 40 storey mixed-use towers that include live/work units on the lower floors.


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[gaviscon]

Vancouver's 'Civic District' masterplan approved by city hall:

https://storeys.com/vancouver-city-h...redevelopment/

[MonkeyRonin]

Originally Posted by gaviscon

Vancouver's 'Civic District' masterplan approved by city hall:

https://storeys.com/vancouver-city-h...redevelopment/

Disappointing massing on this one. Bulky towers, and they all appear to have the same roof height (with the towers getting taller the further downhill they go, to achieve the same roofline, ever so slightly above City Hall's). It doesn't take advantage of the sloping site, and it's unsympathetic to the City Hall building.

I'd much rather see taller, more slender towers that cascade downwards in height from the topographic high point on the south end - which would allow for greater sight lines towards City Hall and emphasize the natural slope of the site; while differentiating their forms to a greater degree.

This is the sort of dull urban form that arises when the main planning concerns are an unimaginative adherence to maximum allowable geodetic elevation and FSI.