Downtown Vancouver Updates - Page 255

Delirium · #**5081** Posted **Dec 9, 2009, 1:46 PM**

here's a great picture of new Water#7 art installation. it's nearly complete..

photo by HereinVancouver on flickr.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/danfairchildphotography/sets/72157622640134189/

s211 · #**5082** Posted **Dec 9, 2009, 5:13 PM**

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Originally Posted by hollywoodnorth

agree F&CK Concord!........selfish bastards. can't they store that 🞵🞵🞵🞵 elsewhere? look at the COSMO site how long have they left it like that a shanty town of trailers and construction material. They don't give a 🞵🞵🞵🞵.

and their bull 🞵🞵🞵🞵 plan of using plastic covered fencing to screen the construction material. LOL......get a grip concord. build us our fricking park already.

And for those not aware, the dump site that Concord wants to reinstate is slated for condos, not a park. Concord can 🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵 well rot if it thinks it can turn our neighbourhood into another rat-infested dump site.

Hed Kandi · #**5083** Posted **Dec 9, 2009, 5:25 PM**

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ozonemania · #**5084** Posted **Dec 9, 2009, 6:29 PM**

That's the thing that people laughed at when it arrived packed in bubble wrap.

Looks much better now. This should be posted in that Bienniale thread. This installation + the other recent public art is part of that, is it not?

officedweller · #**5085** Posted **Dec 9, 2009, 7:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by SFUVancouver

Taken by SFUVancouver, December 8th, 2009

Cool - hadn't seen the add-ons to those warehouse buildings from the back before.

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Pics by me today of the Royal Bank Tower wraps:

Note that both the windows and the spandrels are being wrapped.
The wrap will say "We're Proud To Support Team Canada" - which is what it says on the banking hall wrap.

LeftCoaster · #**5086** Posted **Dec 9, 2009, 8:38 PM**

Looks good, thanks for the updates OD. Keep em commin as it progresses.

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Originally Posted by Delirium

here's a great picture of new Water#7 art installation. it's nearly complete..

photo by HereinVancouver on flickr.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/danfairchildphotography/sets/72157622640134189/

Wow that is what it looks like!! I completely thought it was in its finished state as the garbage textured dog turd... Wow do I feel foolish.

It looks much better now!

jsbertram · #**5087** Posted **Dec 9, 2009, 9:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by Delirium

here's a great picture of new Water#7 art installation. it's nearly complete..

photo by HereinVancouver on flickr.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/danfairchildphotography/sets/72157622640134189/

It looks like it got scratched in transit or setup and needs to have some warranty repairs done.

Or have the skatepunks already 'marked their territory'?

officedweller · #**5088** Posted **Dec 9, 2009, 9:46 PM**

Also - friend at work here siad that TD Tower will get a wrap on the west side facing the Art Gallery from the 10th floor to the 25th floor - just the one side.
It'll be an advertising type wrap - not an offical Olympic theme wrap

Yume-sama · #**5089** Posted **Dec 9, 2009, 9:57 PM**

Are these art installations permanent?

itinerant · #**5090** Posted **Dec 9, 2009, 10:11 PM**

The producers of the Sculpture Biennale sure would like to have at least some of them permanent. Their website is http://www.vancouverbiennale.com and there's a thread on here about it somewhere too.

hrhsheba · #**5091** Posted **Dec 9, 2009, 11:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by officedweller

Also - friend at work here siad that TD Tower will get a wrap on the west side facing the Art Gallery from the 10th floor to the 25th floor - just the one side.
It'll be an advertising type wrap - not an offical Olympic theme wrap

An advertising wrap? Wouldn't that fly in the face of the Olympic Bylaw preventing "ambush" advertising (I'm not exactly sure what constitutes ambush advertising, but, I'm thinking this large-scale in-your-face approach might qualify)

officedweller · #**5092** Posted **Dec 9, 2009, 11:37 PM**

It would be an official sponsor's advertising wrap - i.e. like The Bay is wrapped by HBC and VISA banners and the Royal Bank Tower is wrapped by RBC, Post Office by Cheerios. Bteween The Bay and the Royal Bank Tower, the Royal Bank one looks a lot more "corporate" than "Games".

I'd rather see wraps that match the "look and feel" of the Games - i.e. the blue and green swooping curves, etc.

Yume-sama · #**5093** Posted **Dec 9, 2009, 11:48 PM**

I bet it's Coke.

officedweller · #**5094** Posted **Dec 10, 2009, 12:48 AM**

Because the tower is "Coke-coloured"?

flight_from_kamakura · #**5095** Posted **Dec 10, 2009, 2:12 AM**

lol

SpongeG · #**5096** Posted **Dec 10, 2009, 5:38 AM**

bute street just off robson is shut down for a christmas tree lot! like why there?

jlousa · #**5097** Posted **Dec 10, 2009, 5:51 AM**

Annual Robson St BIA x-mas tree sale with money going towards the Haro care centre. the sale is only until the 14th.

hollywoodnorth · #**5098** Posted **Dec 10, 2009, 8:39 AM**

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Originally Posted by SpongeG

bute street just off robson is shut down for a christmas tree lot! like why there?

ya I used to live in the immediate area. retarded location...horrible to traffic during the X-Mas rush........... Go down to Robson and Broughton and there is a HUGE EMPTY FRICKING LOT.............use that you dumb bastards. Hell even us a underground parking lot. But all of Bute? DUMB

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF...23.129865&spn=0.000532,0.001522&t=h&z=20

Delirium · #**5099** Posted **Dec 11, 2009, 6:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by officedweller

It would be an official sponsor's advertising wrap - i.e. like The Bay is wrapped by HBC and VISA banners and the Royal Bank Tower is wrapped by RBC, Post Office by Cheerios. Bteween The Bay and the Royal Bank Tower, the Royal Bank one looks a lot more "corporate" than "Games".

I'd rather see wraps that match the "look and feel" of the Games - i.e. the blue and green swooping curves, etc.

i wonder if it's Samsung?
"It [Samsung] is negotiating to wrap a downtown Vancouver building with Samsung Olympic signage, has big plans to showcase its brand on outdoor advertising throughout the region and will build a pavilion at David Lam Park it expects will attract more than 600,000 visitors as part of Vancouver’s LiveCity Yaletown celebration site.

The two-storey, 7,500-square-foot pavilion — to be called Olympic Rendezvous at Samsung [OR@S] — will showcase Samsung technology, provide live entertainment and offer lounge space for athletes and their families...

full article: Samsung opens its wallet for Games http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/Samsung+opens+wallet+Games/2327080/story.html

officedweller · #**5100** Posted **Dec 11, 2009, 8:27 PM**

Cool.

The fact that the TD Tower will have a wrap is a good sign that non-official sponsors' buildings (i.e. bearing teant logos who are not official sponsor) will be allowed to have wraps (as opposed to banning them on the basis of a non-permitted "association" with the Games).