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Originally Posted by jlousa
Wow! looks like the developers renderings were pretty off, the city's response doesn't seem to be helping either. Take a read of the following document and compare the massings produced by the applicate, a private citizen and then the city. Seems like some of the concerns being raised do have validity.
http://vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/cclerk/...6memoFeb20.pdf
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yes, it is, and it is very unfortunate that the developers, and in fact all the people in the business don't seem to use new rendering technology to improve public understanding, but to better deceive it, and it is time to put a brake on that:
I hope the city council will follow action on it.
Still, I have issue with the City rendering:
the Broadway facade is 38m long and 36m height (~29 m before the recessing top levels): so it should look like a square, eventually an horizontal rectangle, but definitely not like a vertical rectangle.
Furthermore, the ratio height/width (of the street) is in the 1: the building shouldn't look outrageously higher than Broadway is wide.
here is how look the building massing
sketchup realized from developer application
here, sketchup source
there
The Developer rendering is probably deceiving but the "Citizen" rendering is way much worse!
I agree with Racc, that what is important is view from the street.
In fact I believe that developer should provide their 3D model to the city, in a format suitable for public consumption (that is typically Sketchup), and the work done by Dleung on this forum, should be done and maintained by the city.
That could provide useful and non distorted information for the public and keep all party honest...
At the end
the height of the building (relative to street level) is 36meters, a good ration with the Broadway width (Is it 99 foot at Main or 80foot?)...basically it is standard you could see in European city, and more noticeably in Paris (where height limit is 37m ) where there is roughly a ratio height/width of 1 (not including mansard roof) , what is troublesome here is the narrow side on Broadway, making the masing not very pleasant as seen from Broadway.
Also, at this time the building is surrounded by parking lot, so look more massive, but people need to envision it with a 30 meters streetwall along Broadway