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officedweller · #**381** Posted **Nov 19, 2009, 8:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by Hed Kandi

Looks good. I find the podium on this tower much nicer than the Bing Thom proposal (but the opposite for the top of the tower).
The hard surface (birck or stone?) should ground the tower well (unlike the podium on Capitol and, to some extent, Shangri-La)

ckkelley · #**382** Posted **Nov 20, 2009, 8:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by hollywoodnorth

looks like it's almost time to raise that Jib Crane

Looks like they raised the crane today.

Canadian Mind · #**383** Posted **Nov 20, 2009, 9:17 PM**

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Originally Posted by officedweller

Looks good. I find the podium on this tower much nicer than the Bing Thom proposal (but the opposite for the top of the tower).
The hard surface (birck or stone?) should ground the tower well (unlike the podium on Capitol and, to some extent, Shangri-La)

Shangri-la has a concrete appendage holding half the building up, that is a grounding enough feature for me.

officedweller · #**384** Posted **Nov 20, 2009, 10:42 PM**

That big column?
I was referring to the Burberry / Thurlow side of the base (although there is nice stonework where the Shangri-La logo is located on the Georgia side).
The other side looks great.

hollywoodnorth · #**385** Posted **Nov 20, 2009, 11:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by ckkelley

Looks like they raised the crane today.

ahoy matey!

Hed Kandi · #**386** Posted **Nov 21, 2009, 12:32 AM**

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Locked In · #**387** Posted **Nov 23, 2009, 5:40 AM**

^ It will move much faster once they complete the podium.
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Another floor on the way:

(my photo, taken today)

officedweller · #**388** Posted **Nov 23, 2009, 6:35 AM**

BTW - the new website for the project has some [old] construction pics - including one of the ballroom.
Not sure how tall the ballroom and infill areas around the back are.

ckkelley · #**389** Posted **Nov 24, 2009, 5:47 AM**

How many more floors before they get to the height of the Heritage tower? I'm just thinking maybe we'll be able to start the new year with construction flush and then topping out late fall.

Locked In · #**390** Posted **Nov 25, 2009, 4:56 AM**

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Originally Posted by ckkelley

How many more floors before they get to the height of the Heritage tower? I'm just thinking maybe we'll be able to start the new year with construction flush and then topping out late fall.

It looks like 5 or so floors before it's at the height of the existing building. They're on the 8th floor of the tower podium now I think.

ckkelley · #**391** Posted **Nov 25, 2009, 5:29 AM**

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Originally Posted by Locked In

It looks like 5 or so floors before it's at the height of the existing building. They're on the 8th floor of the tower podium now I think.

5 floors eh? I suppose at that rate we're lookin' at mid-late January.

Locked In · #**392** Posted **Nov 30, 2009, 5:44 AM**

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Originally Posted by Locked In

It looks like 5 or so floors before it's at the height of the existing building. They're on the 8th floor of the tower podium now I think.

My photo, taken today:

sacrifice333 · #**393** Posted **Nov 30, 2009, 3:46 PM**

I used to think they could at least match the height of the hotel portion by the Olympic work stoppage... but I don't think that's gonna happen anymore...

Locked In · #**394** Posted **Dec 6, 2009, 9:06 PM**

Looks like one more floor since the last update:

(my photo, taken today)

SFUVancouver · #**395** Posted **Dec 6, 2009, 9:15 PM**

Thanks for the photo Locked-in. I haven't been by the 'Georgia in a couple weeks so it is nice to see the progress.

Locked In · #**396** Posted **Dec 10, 2009, 6:17 AM**

My photo, taken today:

trofirhen · #**397** Posted **Dec 10, 2009, 6:43 AM**

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Originally Posted by Hed Kandi

Appears to be a new rendering...

This rendering seems to have very large glass panels in front of the four sides of the building, whereas the original one didn't.

Does anyone know anything about this? I like the glass panels; I think they add a sleek look to the building, although they would be very hard to keep clean, and would add an extra, exterior layer of glass in front of the main windows.

Does anyone have information on this? . . . or am I just mistaken, and perceiving it the wrong way?

Spork · #**398** Posted **Dec 10, 2009, 6:50 AM**

Take a look at the first page of the thread, the original one did have these panels. The way that it looks from the other renders is those will be the windows of the condos, whereas the non-windowed areas will be the balconies.

flight_from_kamakura · #**399** Posted **Dec 10, 2009, 8:01 AM**

i'm still blown away by the small lot size on this one. it's really a shame that it won't be built out, or even top out, before the olympics. in a perfect world, first time visitors in february could have wandered past, looked left and succumbed to that "wow" feeling.

red-paladin · #**400** Posted **Dec 10, 2009, 8:53 AM**

It's nice to wow people with great buildings, but I think it's even better to wow people with projects under construction. The olympic audiences on TV and in the city will look and say: Wow! look at the Vancouver economy! They are building all these projects during the 'worst recession ever'! That's the best kind of reaction I can think of.