Robson Square Renovations - Page 52

dreambrother808 · #**1021** Posted **Aug 29, 2011, 10:13 PM**

So sit somewhere else other than the stairs... Problem solved. I don't know anyone who was scared of these things, btw. If someone's going to be that uptight about life then well that's their problem, frankly.

SpongeG · #**1022** Posted **Aug 29, 2011, 10:19 PM**

there really isn't anywhere else - isn't that the whole point of this discussion? it's not welcoming in the sense that there is nowhere to sit and hang out down there and thats why this plywood/shag fake beach is so popular

Overground · #**1023** Posted **Aug 30, 2011, 4:47 PM**

I walked by the yellow carpet yesterday and the only thing it was attracting was homeless people with their personal belongings strewn across it. Not that I have anything against homeless people being comfortable, but you wouldn't get me touching that turf even with a 10ft barge pole.

IanS · #**1024** Posted **Aug 30, 2011, 5:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by Overground

I walked by the yellow carpet yesterday and the only thing it was attracting was homeless people with their personal belongings strewn across it. Not that I have anything against homeless people being comfortable, but you wouldn't get me touching that turf even with a 10ft barge pole.

Yeah. I walk there fairly early every morning and it's pretty ugly. If people could see what that thing looks like first thing in the morning, I suspect they wouldn't be so quick to eat their lunches on it later in the day.

SpongeG · #**1025** Posted **Aug 31, 2011, 6:02 AM**

haha

did anyone see the al fresco dinner party they had down there on robson street? they had a long table and people sat on the street - looking like some kind of potluck dinner thing - very hippie dippie love in but not with hippies think yoga moms and trendsters

Smooth · #**1026** Posted **Aug 31, 2011, 6:26 PM**

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Robson's "fake beach" a good place for the homeless to sleep
VANCOUVER/CKNW(AM980)

8/31/2011

It was designed to be a nice place to enjoy a cup of coffee or lunch, but a pop-up beach picnic area, dubbed "picnurbia", has ended up being a comfortable place for street youth to sleep.

Twelve people were counted sleeping on the structure along Robson street this morning.

But the area will be taken down this weekend, so people like Josh will have to find a new place to rest his head.

He says he won't be going to a shelter.

Josh says, "there are some people that are in shelters that are using shelter as a gateway to access people who can be easily harmed or manipulated, like vulnerable people, so there's some drug dealers or pimps, or something like that, that are working out of shelters."

In contrast, Josh says those sleeping in "picnurbia" are safe, especially considering the heavy police presence in the area.

http://www.cknw.com/Channels/Reg/New...spx?ID=1530908

PROSTSHOCKER · #**1027** Posted **Sep 2, 2011, 6:59 AM**

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http://www.cknw.com/Channels/Reg/New...spx?ID=1530908

I was pretty elated to see it being used by those guys. Even walked by smiling at them as they all huddled around one of them to watch downloaded cartoons on their laptop computer. It all just appeared to me as more evidence of how much of a social collective that site has become. Then one guy noticed me, stashed his guitar and removed his baller cap/hat, outstretching it toward me in a gesture to recieve money, street begger style.
I laughed at the sheer awfulness of the moment then and there. Had I not been out with friends there, I would've fumed at that.

I just kind of turned to my friends and went "Cmon man, you have a guitar and a laptop there, I am not giving you money. I don't even have a laptop myself."

trofirhen · #**1028** Posted **Sep 2, 2011, 3:18 PM**

... is the night lighting at Robson Square more or less the same as it was five years ago? I know a circular overhead light at the skating rink went in, and the skylights are blue now.

Nevertheless, is there any other "brightening it up" that's happened? It'd be interesting to see.

subdude · #**1029** Posted **Sep 5, 2011, 11:07 PM**

Thank god - back to normal. News1130 says Robson is open again...

SpongeG · #**1030** Posted **Sep 6, 2011, 3:10 AM**

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Originally Posted by trofirhen

... is the night lighting at Robson Square more or less the same as it was five years ago? I know a circular overhead light at the skating rink went in, and the skylights are blue now.

Nevertheless, is there any other "brightening it up" that's happened? It'd be interesting to see.

it's brighter than it used to be, I can't really describe what has been done but its much brighter now than pre-olympics

Conrad Yablonski · #**1031** Posted **Sep 6, 2011, 5:12 AM**

Will try to have a closer look next I'm through there-walked through last week and Yes it's open but nothing struck me as different at all.

Sir Conga · #**1032** Posted **Sep 7, 2011, 6:51 AM**

The lit-up stairs on the south side look fantastic... I'm looking forward to taking a closer look.

Login650 · #**1033** Posted **Sep 9, 2011, 6:44 PM**

It might be helpful for everyone to stop referring to the recent construction at Robson Square as a 'redesign' since it was not. Nothing was changed. They were simply replacing the waterproofing membrane that keeps everything below dry.

Except for the ice rink upgrades made for the Olympics (separate project), the square was put back exactly as it was before, down to every scraggly bush. I personally think the reconstruction was a great opportunity to make it a better space, but it wasn't taken advantage of.

Conrad Yablonski · #**1034** Posted **Sep 9, 2011, 6:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by Login650

It might be helpful for everyone to stop referring to the recent construction at Robson Square as a 'redesign' since it was not. Nothing was changed. They were simply replacing the waterproofing membrane that keeps everything below dry.

Thanks for that-I just walked through in one direction and cycled through in the other not an hour I ago and couldn't see anything different at all.

Pinion · #**1035** Posted **Sep 9, 2011, 8:50 PM**

The big glass domes were replaced too. They were brown, ugly and very 70s-80s looking. Now they're bluey and inoffensive. That's... almost something.

Vancity · #**1036** Posted **Sep 9, 2011, 9:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by Pinion

The big glass domes were replaced too. They were brown, ugly and very 70s-80s looking. Now they're bluey and inoffensive. That's... almost something.

*yawn*

haha. well, there were some minor upgrades. nothing special, i guess.

SpongeG · #**1037** Posted **Sep 10, 2011, 3:19 AM**

they redid the lighting, added a lot more glass railings where there weren't any before

very subtle - easy to miss - i think it feels brighter cause its been thinned out of all its greenery

SpongeG · #**1038** Posted **Oct 22, 2011, 1:47 AM**

took a few pics the other day on my phone - all pics by me

see the new glass railing and the new wire one

the much hated mound and new fence

trofirhen · #**1039** Posted **Oct 22, 2011, 5:32 PM**

Could anybody post any night shots of Robson Square the way it looks now? Also, I believe the Georgia Street side of the VAG has some floodlights. Any night time pix would be really great - - - especially if someone can do "before" and "after" the new lighting. Thank you.

Locked In · #**1040** Posted **Oct 22, 2011, 7:44 PM**

It's not at night, but here's a current pic from the Sun of the Georgia street side of the VAG