Downtown Vancouver Updates - Page 260

Locked In · #**5181** Posted **Dec 28, 2009, 12:22 AM**

^ Here's the Venue awning:

(my photos, taken today)

mcminsen · #**5182** Posted **Dec 28, 2009, 7:38 AM**

Is this blue lighting on the Birks building (698 W. Hastings) new? If so, maybe we'll see more and more of this highlighting soon. Imagine the Art Gallery with this kind of lighting all around.

my pic Dec.25 '09

SpongeG · #**5183** Posted **Dec 28, 2009, 8:52 AM**

been a few weeks - theres a lot of building with the same kind of thing, gastown, crosstown areas have some cool old buildings lit up

and unless someone gifts it to the library they don't have that kind of money to spend on lighting - they are desperate to move and don't want to waste money

raggedy13 · #**5184** Posted **Dec 28, 2009, 10:03 AM**

Thanks for the pic, mcminsen. I haven't seen that yet either. It looks great. I know trofirhen will be happy.

MechMike · #**5185** Posted **Dec 28, 2009, 11:10 AM**

Man the RBC building looks really depressing all dirty. I mean they aren't in the same predicament as sears is but come on, I'm pretty sure a bank can afford to pressure wash it once.

...or can't they?

vanman · #**5186** Posted **Dec 28, 2009, 11:16 AM**

^ I disagree. It was built in the 30s and looks like it. It might need a pressure wash but that's about all.

mcminsen · #**5187** Posted **Dec 28, 2009, 11:49 AM**

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Originally Posted by vanman

^ I disagree. It was built in the 30s and looks like it. It might need a pressure wash but that's about all.

I think this is the RBC building MechMike is talking about.

my pic Dec. '09

vanman · #**5188** Posted **Dec 28, 2009, 11:52 AM**

Ah ok, that makes alot more sense.

trofirhen · #**5189** Posted **Dec 28, 2009, 12:50 PM**

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Originally Posted by raggedy13

Thanks for the pic, mcminsen. I haven't seen that yet either. It looks great. I know trofirhen will be happy.

yup. Sho' am happy, brother. and yes, let's take it to the Art Gallery !!!!!

delboy · #**5190** Posted **Dec 28, 2009, 4:51 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by mcminsen

Is this blue lighting on the Birks building (698 W. Hastings) new? If so, maybe we'll see more and more of this highlighting soon. Imagine the Art Gallery with this kind of lighting all around.

my pic Dec.25 '09

and people say there is no decent architecture here - beautiful!

trofirhen · #**5191** Posted **Dec 28, 2009, 6:31 PM**

This lighting gig for classy old buildings is fabulous! And yes, I sure hope they try it on the Georgia Street Art Gallery façade .... imagine it .... especially with the lions lit up.

I have to shed a tear, though, when I think of the original Birks Building façade at Granville and Goergia where London Drugs and the Scotia Tower now sit.

The building inside was just an old office building like any other, but the Edwardian façade was classic, beautiful, elegant, irreplacable ..... and gone.

The lighting effects that could have been done with it .... it is to weep.

officedweller · #**5192** Posted **Dec 29, 2009, 6:47 PM**

Nice. Thanks for the pics.

I remember when the Royal Bank Tower had its logo changed - it took a long time to get powerwashed to remove traces of the outline (of dirt) of the old logo.

entheosfog · #**5193** Posted **Dec 30, 2009, 8:04 AM**

A few quick snaps of recently re-opened Pigeon Park:

EdinVan · #**5194** Posted **Dec 30, 2009, 8:31 AM**

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Originally Posted by delboy

and people say there is no decent architecture here - beautiful!

The lighting on the Birks building is nice in the evening, but absolutely horrendous at night. It's much, much too bright. It doesn't highlight the building's columns; it completely overpowers them. I don't understand why it's so difficult to do lighting properly in this city.

EdinVan · #**5195** Posted **Dec 30, 2009, 8:34 AM**

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Originally Posted by mcminsen

I think this is the RBC building MechMike is talking about.

my pic Dec. '09

The tower had been pressure-washed a little while back. Perhaps they just haven't had time to get to the lower part. They will, though; RBC is usually pretty good about exterior upkeep, unlike Sears. Too bad they've defiled the building by putting up those cartoonish banners; now you can't see the beautiful First Nations artwork through the windows.

Yume-sama · #**5196** Posted **Dec 30, 2009, 8:54 AM**

Well, I'm quite positive we'll get an overload of that, anyways.

red-paladin · #**5197** Posted **Dec 30, 2009, 9:03 AM**

What exactly is that mural about? The RBC guy is carrying the torch through Pyongyang?

NetMapel · #**5198** Posted **Dec 30, 2009, 9:37 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by red-paladin

What exactly is that mural about? The RBC guy is carrying the torch through Pyongyang?

Maybe you're just joking, but that's RBC's official Olympic advertisement. They've running that marketing campaign for quite some time now.

Yume-sama · #**5199** Posted **Dec 30, 2009, 9:47 AM**

He's either in Giza or Edmonton.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/liberato/171610084/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ny_doll/469371991/

red-paladin · #**5200** Posted **Dec 30, 2009, 10:19 AM**

Yea, you're right. Edmonton has a lot of pyramids. Muttart Conservatory, City Hall, West Edmonton Mall has one I think.