Downtown Vancouver Updates - Page 239

TwoFace · #**4761** Posted **Nov 8, 2009, 5:04 PM**

The Rings are looking pretty sharp in Coal Harbour…

mr.x · #**4762** Posted **Nov 8, 2009, 6:34 PM**

^ that's a pretty big barge just for the rings...it looks like they might have more plans: light show? fireworks?

thenorthofvan · #**4763** Posted **Nov 8, 2009, 7:32 PM**

Isn't the barge just for transport ?

TwoFace · #**4764** Posted **Nov 8, 2009, 7:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by thenorthofvan

Isn't the barge just for transport ?

Nope, the Rings are on the barge, which is secured to 3 pilings.
The Rings put on a "light show" by changing colours, flashing and stuff.

I will be looking at them for months. Will let everyone know if the anti-olympic coalition does a pre-emptive strike against the barge and the friendly fire casualty count resulting from any such assault.

SpongeG · #**4765** Posted **Nov 8, 2009, 9:37 PM**

yah that park has been fenced off for a couple weeks now

a few areas downtown have had fences sprung up in the last couple of weeks

SFUVancouver · #**4766** Posted **Nov 9, 2009, 12:02 AM**

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Originally Posted by Delirium

you can see that they've begun work on the Yaletown Live Site. also looks like they are finally completing that little parkette in front of the Erickson.
oh and that Daycare centre on homer is nearly done and damn.. that is THE nicest daycare centre I have ever seen. just fantastic

photo by yowmartin on flickr.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/10332529@N04/4084275502/in/set-72157622631844155/

Thanks for the photo Delirium. I completely agree with you about the daycare centre. Walter Francl is one of our best architects. He and his firm also did the Trout Lake Olympic Ice Rink and Sea Island Centre Station.

Also, Shangri-La looks awfully dapper in that aerial photo. It stands out in the sea of white towers.

SpongeG · #**4767** Posted **Nov 9, 2009, 1:02 AM**

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Originally Posted by TwoFace

Nope, the Rings are on the barge, which is secured to 3 pilings.
The Rings put on a "light show" by changing colours, flashing and stuff.

I will be looking at them for months. Will let everyone know if the anti-olympic coalition does a pre-emptive strike against the barge and the friendly fire casualty count resulting from any such assault.

the news report said the rings will be moored near brockton point - where they are now and will be moved every night closer to the convention centre for a nightly light show and than moved back after it is over

everytime Canada wins a gold medal there will also be a special light show using these rings and the ones at the ones at the airport

TwoFace · #**4768** Posted **Nov 9, 2009, 1:38 AM**

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Originally Posted by SpongeG

the news report said the rings will be moored near brockton point - where they are now and will be moved every night closer to the convention centre for a nightly light show and than moved back after it is over

everytime Canada wins a gold medal there will also be a special light show using these rings and the ones at the ones at the airport

I didn’t know... that’s great.
Sounds like the Thurlow plaza will be the nightly party spot during the games then.

jlousa · #**4769** Posted **Nov 9, 2009, 1:46 AM**

Some great pics of the Grace on the globeand mail site.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-esta...-secret-vancouver-escape/article1347352/

Locked In · #**4770** Posted **Nov 9, 2009, 1:51 AM**

My photos, taken this evening in quickly fading light at the corner of Bute and Alberni:

danby · #**4771** Posted **Nov 9, 2009, 3:19 AM**

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Originally Posted by jlousa

Some great pics of the Grace on the globeand mail site.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-esta...-secret-vancouver-escape/article1347352/

nice pool...

ahha they cant spell the guys name right.. zac efron!! not Ephron!

officedweller · #**4772** Posted **Nov 9, 2009, 4:02 AM**

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Originally Posted by Locked In

My photos, taken this evening in quickly fading light at the corner of Bute and Alberni:

Thanks.

Anyone know what's going in? Are those girders strong enough for a roof deck (if a restaurant?)

SpongeG · #**4773** Posted **Nov 9, 2009, 4:30 AM**

wow no wonder they cleared the plaza

its the future home of the liquor store - it will be moving from its current location to this newly created space - since the parking garage is due to be replaced

officedweller · #**4774** Posted **Nov 9, 2009, 6:49 AM**

Thanks.

radacal · #**4775** Posted **Nov 9, 2009, 8:47 PM**

Anyone catch the front page headline/article on two towers proposed for the West End? One building is completely rental - what are the residents association griping about? It will change the character of the neighbourhood? Give me a break. Anything is an improvement from crappy 1970's architecture - let's start bulldozing already...

WarrenC12 · #**4776** Posted **Nov 9, 2009, 9:18 PM**

There are NIMBYs everywhere. The West End has tons of crappy places to live.

BCPhil · #**4777** Posted **Nov 9, 2009, 11:02 PM**

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Some West End residents are outraged over a proposed 22-storey residential tower in what is already Canada’s densest neighborhood.

http://www.theprovince.com/news/vancouve...al+tower+their+midsts/2200363/story.html

"Densest" in more ways than one.

phesto · #**4778** Posted **Nov 9, 2009, 11:37 PM**

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Originally Posted by BCPhil

http://www.theprovince.com/news/vancouve...al+tower+their+midsts/2200363/story.html

"Densest" in more ways than one.

Ha! Thanks for posting. Reading through the comments at the bottom just made my afternoon. I had forgotten how many hardcore NIMBYs reside in the West End. It's rather perplexing to know that the same people who decry the loss of rental housing are vehemently opposed to a rental project because it is 20-storeys tall.

delboy · #**4779** Posted **Nov 10, 2009, 1:10 AM**

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Originally Posted by radacal

Anyone catch the front page headline/article on two towers proposed for the West End? One building is completely rental - what are the residents association griping about? It will change the character of the neighbourhood? Give me a break. Anything is an improvement from crappy 1970's architecture - let's start bulldozing already...

I tend to agree - but what about that Maxines Hideaway building - i quite like it, tons of character. Is that going as well?

whatnext · #**4780** Posted **Nov 10, 2009, 3:46 AM**

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Originally Posted by radacal

Anyone catch the front page headline/article on two towers proposed for the West End? One building is completely rental - what are the residents association griping about? It will change the character of the neighbourhood? Give me a break. Anything is an improvement from crappy 1970's architecture - let's start bulldozing already...

Have you ever actually seen St. John's in person? A rather interesting piece of ecclesiastical architecture from the Seventies, which is a sub-type rather lacking in Vancouver and quite unexpected in the West End. I'd much rather see that preserved than yet another bland glass tower.