Telus Garden | 135m, 88m | 46fl res, 22fl office | 928,000sqft | Completed - Page 12

mr.x · #**221** Posted **Mar 10, 2011, 5:06 AM**

I love it!

Metro-One · #**222** Posted **Mar 10, 2011, 5:36 AM**

Definitely a big improvement from the render before. I love how it interacts with the street front (especially the tower frontage with the pillars and the canopy). I hope there is some decent signage / lighting on this tower (I did note the Telus Logos but hopefully there is a little more than that).

trofirhen · #**223** Posted **Mar 10, 2011, 5:47 AM**

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Originally Posted by Hed Kandi

The design is a chaotic mess. Many ideas and yet not a single one executed successfully.

Has this thing passed the UDP?

Hah !! Probably. Remember, this isn't Chicago, "The First City of American Architecture." It's just ... well ... Vancouver. That says it all.

djh · #**224** Posted **Mar 10, 2011, 6:28 AM**

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Originally Posted by Metro-One

Definitely a big improvement from the render before. I love how it interacts with the street front (especially the tower frontage with the pillars and the canopy). I hope there is some decent signage / lighting on this tower (I did note the Telus Logos but hopefully there is a little more than that).

In my post a page back I talked about how poorly it interfaces with the street along Seymour. Are you talking about the Georgia side only?

Metro-One · #**225** Posted **Mar 10, 2011, 6:31 AM**

just the Georgia side.

dleung · #**226** Posted **Mar 10, 2011, 6:43 AM**

i don't like buildings that rely on light pollution to make up for 🞵🞵🞵🞵 architecture. Plus the LED screens on the protruding boxes only obscures the view of the trees from outside. And how many years until the trees look as big as in the renders? Are they allowing enough soil depth for that to be even possible? Too bad there's no close-up views of the other street interfaces.

officedweller · #**227** Posted **Mar 10, 2011, 6:51 AM**

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Is the wooden arching structure really a canopy? I thought it was more of a sculpture. BTW the original rendering also had a canopy under the building.

Not sure what the round access well (with elevator in the middle?) is for. There's no obvious staircase along with it.

An underground link to Vancouver Centre (and Canada Line) would be great - it would just have to link up with the food court. When the Bay Parkade is redeveloped, a link across Georgia could be developed to the Expo Line, too.

So there's a protruding box on the south side of the office tower too - have they negotiated air rights from the Kingston hotel? It seems to hover above it.

The render does seem to show the Seymour streetfront retail significantly opened up with higher ceiling/higher volume spaces compared to what's there now (and there's precedent for them opening up an existing building with the Robson frontage). There also looks to be a retail entrance on Seymour directly under the overhanging office block.

Not sure if the upper cladding of the William Farrell Building and the main Seymour building, as rendered, shows a redevelopment, or just artistic licence.

I don't mind the Richards facade of the condo tower, but as others have mentioned, it'll depend on the materials used.
- Just occurred to me - The Richards facade is a reworking of the *failed* container stacking at Marine Gateway. Someone just can't let go of a concept?

Looks like there's a decent retail podium under the condo tower. However, the siting of the condo tower does nothing to hide the ugly alley side of the William Farrell Building (which wasn't clad in Busby's double skinning a few years back).

I really view the condo tower as a wholly separate project - even the colour palette is quite different than the office block (both old and new).

Metro-One · #**228** Posted **Mar 10, 2011, 6:52 AM**

Actually in respect to this tower I was more thinking about the lighting aspects under and with the canopy for the pedestrian street level experience, hopefully something a little funky and or fun in planned. I doubt those are LED screens in the render, just posters, of course I would love if they were LED screens.

raggedy13 · #**229** Posted **Mar 10, 2011, 6:57 AM**

I swear I read an article earlier today that mentioned there would be retail put along Seymour into the base of the current building. Can't find it at the moment.

However, this video posted by hollywoodnorth seems to support that. Watch for the part where it shows the coloured 3D blocks moving into place around the site map. The yellow blocks appear to represent retail and it shows yellow going in all along Seymour (at about 38 seconds in):

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/03/09/bc-telus-towers-vancouver.html

officedweller · #**230** Posted **Mar 10, 2011, 7:43 AM**

I prefer the University Club Tower.
It would have been cool if Telus has proposed a giant cell phone - like the one being built in London, UK.

http://www.techdigest.tv/2007/07/new_london_skys.html

mezzanine · #**231** Posted **Mar 10, 2011, 8:05 AM**

I like it - it's nice to have telus having a major (national) corporate presence within DT.

I never did understand that white spot bunker on georgia. the sooner that gets demo'd the better.

What will happen to the burnaby boot?

madmigs · #**232** Posted **Mar 10, 2011, 10:00 AM**

http://www.straight.com/article-378984/v...n-development-project-downtown-vancouver

SpongeG · #**233** Posted **Mar 10, 2011, 10:16 AM**

doesn't the boot house something else? like a division that will remain there

PROSTSHOCKER · #**234** Posted **Mar 10, 2011, 10:18 AM**

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Originally Posted by hankthetank

from www.vancouversun.com

Am I the only one who likes it? It's different. Finally something that's different. Do we have to change the name of the thread to "Telus Gardens" now?

I love it.

It's design is fabulous and I'm impressed by the LEED Platinum Alone.

I see its architectural excellence in its immediate context. It will considerably brighten up that area of downtown and break up the concrete monotony.

invisibleairwaves · #**235** Posted **Mar 10, 2011, 10:21 AM**

Telus Gardens sounds less like a condo/office project and more like a terrible stadium name. Wait, scratch that, I don't want to give them any ideas for BC Place...

PROSTSHOCKER · #**236** Posted **Mar 10, 2011, 10:36 AM**

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Originally Posted by invisibleairwaves

Telus Gardens sounds less like a condo/office project and more like a terrible stadium name. Wait, scratch that, I don't want to give them any ideas for BC Place...

ahahaha

AT FIRST I WAS LIKE Oh god, Madison Square Gardens. But then I thought of the green element of the building and how they aspire to create some sort of DT annex and figured it was cute. Much better than say TELUSQUARE or something given their previous naming tendencies

Hed Kandi · #**237** Posted **Mar 10, 2011, 2:05 PM**

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SpikePhanta · #**238** Posted **Mar 10, 2011, 4:10 PM**

That part of the street is already in the shadows, and with not much retail it's pretty dark.

Also it wouldn't really matter that much right? Like the building without the box would cast a shadow.

WarrenC12 · #**239** Posted **Mar 10, 2011, 6:40 PM**

Free internet for life in those condos?

I like the design.

Is there any background on why Telus is settling in Vancouver as their HQ? I thought for sure they would end up in Alberta. Big win for the province and city.

flight_from_kamakura · #**240** Posted **Mar 10, 2011, 6:48 PM**

now, we're talking:

forgot - do we see street retail on the robson frontage? neat, looks like they're envisioning putting a tree onto the roof of the existing telus building.

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Originally Posted by Prometheus

You're not suggesting we violate the holy sanctity of View Cone No. 9.2.2, as laid down by our City Fathers in the year 1989 A.D., by adding a 23rd or 24th floor, are you?

line of the day!