Downtown Vancouver Updates - Page 280

vancityrox · #**5581** Posted **Jan 29, 2010, 11:12 PM**

Haha , I was thinking about a restaurant. A Montreal style resto that serves Montreal Favorites!

Not 3 dollar steamies but 79 cent ones like they do in Montreal!

haha man i miss my Delicatessens...only one that is decent is La Belle Patate on Davie near Bute.

vancityrox · #**5582** Posted **Jan 30, 2010, 8:01 PM**

They are putting an olympic mural over the Roberto Luongo mural at GM Place..looking good so far..

Locked In · #**5583** Posted **Feb 1, 2010, 12:13 AM**

The remaining building at Smithe and Richards has been demolished:

(my photo, January 31)

flight_from_kamakura · #**5584** Posted **Feb 1, 2010, 1:30 AM**

wow, this site from lucy mae brown down was supposed to be a park, but i seem to recall that the idea went off the rails. anyone know what this is all about?

osirisboy · #**5585** Posted **Feb 1, 2010, 1:36 AM**

that pile of rumble looks 1000% times better than the two buildings that were there before

entheosfog · #**5586** Posted **Feb 1, 2010, 1:40 AM**

Some activity seems to be taking place with the Canada Post Building

I heard there was going a Canada flag covering it? Did it get taken down or is yet to be put up? Or is this the dreaded wrap that's going up?

HSBC getting in on the welcoming action:

Green roof going up on 'the cabin' on the VAG lawn.

("his last words were "cherish the cabin..."")

SpongeG · #**5587** Posted **Feb 1, 2010, 1:48 AM**

the flag on the post office is on the east side - so i think the cheerios wrap WILL happen!

Yume-sama · #**5588** Posted **Feb 1, 2010, 1:50 AM**

Dunno what you all have against Cheerios

Like that's a good looking building or something.

SpongeG · #**5589** Posted **Feb 1, 2010, 1:58 AM**

nothing its an ugly wrap
i kinda wanna see it

entheosfog · #**5590** Posted **Feb 1, 2010, 2:10 AM**

I wanna see it to see how ugly it will be in person.

SpongeG · #**5591** Posted **Feb 1, 2010, 2:12 AM**

does anyone have the renders still? they are somewhere on here i forget where

Spork · #**5592** Posted **Feb 1, 2010, 2:40 AM**

So if the Cheerios wrap does go up, who's down for a protest in front of the building?

Yume-sama · #**5593** Posted **Feb 1, 2010, 2:42 AM**

Is there a rendering of this Cheerios wrap that I missed

?

Locked In · #**5594** Posted **Feb 1, 2010, 2:59 AM**

^

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hed Kandi

Brilliant...Absolutely Brilliant!

Source: 'The Georgia' SkyscraperPage thread

Yume-sama · #**5595** Posted **Feb 1, 2010, 3:03 AM**

Aside from the fact that it looks like the rendering was drawn in MS Paint, there's nothing REALLY too bad with it.

It'll look a lot better than that, anyways.

SpongeG · #**5596** Posted **Feb 1, 2010, 3:06 AM**

haha yah its colourful just bad rendering there is parking in front of the building not a wide sidewalk

dleung · #**5597** Posted **Feb 1, 2010, 4:53 AM**

^^That barely passes as a legit "olympic" wrap. Where's the friggin olympic logo... oh right, the tiny one next to the illegible text. Yes, bask in the spirit of the Games by mailing off portions of your cereal box... no one will see through it as another lame marketing ploy...

I haven't seen any other olympics close up, but this has to be the most corporatized one ever. There has been a few exceptions, like the cool cranberry rings going up in the river, but most of the major elements including olympic architecture has been all about on-time, one-budget, no frills. We seem to have mastered no-circuses aspect of bread-not-circuses...

Yume-sama · #**5598** Posted **Feb 1, 2010, 4:55 AM**

Salt Lake wrapped up like all 4 of their buildings.

nova9 · #**5599** Posted **Feb 1, 2010, 4:56 AM**

it makes sense that the flag is on the east side, that's the side that's facing the livecity venue right? the ugly cheerios then just faces georgia.

Metro-One · #**5600** Posted **Feb 2, 2010, 9:27 AM**

Was not sure where to post this, but I just watched a BBC news story about the dying night life in Paris, due to noise complaints from the increasing number of residents around the club / pub areas. Because of this many musicians and other artists are starting to leave and base themselves in other European cities.

But get this, clubs stay open until 7AM!!!!!

Coud you imagine that?

Honestly, people living in downtown Vancouver have no idea what true light / noise / party issues are. We should at least be a 4am closing city on weekends.

Just interesting noting that we are not the only city facing NIMBY problems, but then again, Paris does party 5 hours later than we do.........with much louder music and much brighter lights.