The Georgia Taken by SFUVancouver, December 17th, 2010..
What's the low rise Sixties-looking building in the foreground of the photo? Can't say I've every really noticed it before. It almost looks like an apartment block.
602 West Hastings (SW Corner of Hastings and Seymour)
Office and Retail Building owned by Reliance Properties and the former original home of the Bank of Nova Scotia (it used to be a heritage building before a 60's reno.). The cornice and vertical supports were added in 2002 or so.
Office and Retail Building owned by Reliance Properties and the former original home of the Bank of Nova Scotia (it used to be a heritage building before a 60's reno.). The cornice and vertical supports were added in 2002 or so.
Thanks for the info. Found this public domain image in the VPL collection. Looks like an infill was built beside it in the 1950's, then the bank building remuddled to match the infill. Shame, the original was much more interesting.
Thanks for the info. Found this public domain image in the VPL collection. Looks like an infill was built beside it in the 1950's, then the bank building remuddled to match the infill. Shame, the original was much more interesting.
VPL archives-public domain
Are you friggin kidding me?! The idiot responsible for deciding to cover up that building should be tarred and feathered. And if he is no longer alive, then he sould be exhumed from his grave and his corpse tarred and feathered.
God, I just hope the original facade still exists under all that — and can someday be restored.
Unbelievable!
Last edited by Prometheus; Dec 20, 2010 at 2:41 AM.
Unfortunately, upon closer examination of the old photo and new photo, it appears likely that some of the original architecutral features (e.g. the protruding cornice) were dismantled to accommodate the new cladding. The vertical pillars splitting the original windows were definitely destroyed.
Are you friggin kidding me?! The idiot responsible for deciding to cover up that building should be tarred and feathered. And if he is no longer alive, then he sould be exhumed from his grave and his corpse tarred and feathered.
God, I just hope the original facade still exists under all that — and can someday be restored.
Unbelievable!
Indeed. Sad thing is there's a ton of old buildings around the city that have been covered up like that, on a smaller scale though...
Are you friggin kidding me?! The idiot responsible for deciding to cover up that building should be tarred and feathered. And if he is no longer alive, then he sould be exhumed from his grave and his corpse tarred and feathered.
That cracked me up.
I do agree though. What in the world would have possessed them to change that already beautiful exterior?
That cracked me up.
I do agree though. What in the world would have possessed them to change that already beautiful exterior?
And to make it worse, to lose the original design to something of complete and utter anonymous banality. Given the age of the original structure, maybe we'll see it redeveloped with something taller and more interesting (he said hopefully).
boxy feel....affection of boxes: street layout, buildings, stores...it's all boxy
That's what I've noticed, too. Pender Street in particular has a "bitty boxy" small-city feel. There are other streets of course. I'd love to see a complex covering en entire block - no, may even two -(lane closure problems, yes I know) with a couple of soaring, elegant dramatic towers on it.
I'm sure it's been turned on for a while, but just yesterday I first noticed this building's light treatment. It's that new building on Granville at Nelson. Adds a bit more colour to Granville:
They've added a bunch more LED lighting to the columns of the viaducts by GM Place. I noticed blue, green, red, and yellow colour options. This is on the Northeast corner of the lot where that plaza is, near the ticket window and across from Costco/Skytrain
They've added a bunch more LED lighting to the columns of the viaducts by GM Place. I noticed blue, green, red, and yellow colour options. This is on the Northeast corner of the lot where that plaza is, near the ticket window and across from Costco/Skytrain
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