Olympic Village & Southeast False Creek Updates Discussion - Page 73

giallo · #**1441** Posted **Nov 27, 2009, 3:04 AM**

The Olympic Village is so insanely awesome.

Yume-sama · #**1442** Posted **Nov 27, 2009, 3:38 AM**

It does look amazing. I hope any future development in the area will be of similar quality.

Wooster · #**1443** Posted **Nov 27, 2009, 4:02 AM**

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Originally Posted by giallo

The Olympic Village is so insanely awesome.

I agree, it's fantastic! The architecture is good enough, nice scale, nothing totally spectacular, but the landscape architecture and public realm is the real star. Is there a particular landscape architecture firm doing the bulk of the work on the open spaces?

jsbertram · #**1444** Posted **Nov 27, 2009, 5:24 AM**

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Originally Posted by Yume-sama

The units look *extremely* small, like they are 10 feet wide

http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/planning/rezoning/applications/1553-1577main/documents/siteplan.pdf

Like an urban trailer park.

Yume-sama · #**1445** Posted **Nov 27, 2009, 5:26 AM**

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Originally Posted by jsbertram

Like an urban trailer park.

I dunno, I think the average double-wide would be bigger.

But, they should succeed in selling them to the hipsters for $300k or so.

jsbertram · #**1446** Posted **Nov 27, 2009, 5:30 AM**

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Originally Posted by Yume-sama

I dunno, I think the average double-wide would be bigger.

But, they should succeed in selling them to the hipsters for $300k or so.

If there isn't enough room to swing a cat around, I'm not interested.

Yume-sama · #**1447** Posted **Nov 27, 2009, 5:34 AM**

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Originally Posted by jsbertram

If there isn't enough room to swing a cat around, I'm not interested.

I don't know what's up with people in Vancouver and that saying. I've never heard it before coming here.

The first time was someone saying "You can't swing a cat around without hitting a Japanese person here!"

Very strange pre-occupation with swinging felines

s211 · #**1448** Posted **Nov 27, 2009, 4:33 PM**

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Originally Posted by jsbertram

If there isn't enough room to swing a cat around, I'm not interested.

To complete the phrase, with thanks to Douglas Adams, "not big enough to swing a cat around, unless it's a very patient cat that doesn't mind a few knocks about the head", or something along those lines.

metroXpress · #**1449** Posted **Nov 27, 2009, 4:54 PM**

Thanks for the updates! wonderful

jsbertram · #**1450** Posted **Nov 27, 2009, 6:19 PM**

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Originally Posted by Yume-sama

I don't know what's up with people in Vancouver and that saying. I've never heard it before coming here.

The first time was someone saying "You can't swing a cat around without hitting a Japanese person here!"

Very strange pre-occupation with swinging felines

Wayyyyyy of topic:
http://greenash.net.au/posts/thoughts/room-to-swing-a-cat

(maybe it's a commonwealth thing?)