General Vancouver Updates

[ckkelley]

Nice! I like the sound of the that.

[squeezied]

Openhouse posters of the Oakridge Centre plans: https://www.placespeak.com/uploads/assets/Oakridge_Open_House_Boards_March_29th_2.pdf

I shouldn't say plans, most of this info is stuff we already know. It's mainly preliminary background. Nevertheless, still interesting to go through.

[flight_from_kamakura]

this is from that document, the approved 2007 vision:


i really hope they do a lot more than that, especially in what concerns the cambie street wall that idiots are fighting now but that must eventually run from the water all the way to the gateway, and the shape of that document makes me really really optimistic. hopefully, westbank can add a lot more density here, another million sqf of residential on top of the million that was approved in the 2007 plan.

thanks for posting that.

[NewWester]

Is it just me or did so much winking just happen that this thread developed a big facial tick?

[hollywoodnorth]

PLEASE LET IT BE .... B.I.G. .... not just big

[SFUVancouver]

In all seriousness, it is fantastic news that Westbank is on board for this project. They do consistently good work and care about architecture and quality materials. They hire architects and landscape architects who understand the public realm and successful interfaces to the street. Plus, frankly, they get projects built and what Vancouver seriously needs is to build up some momentum for building density and good projects outside the Metro Core.

[entheosfog]

Pinnacle on Broadway:

[entheosfog]

Kits 360:

[SFUVancouver]

Thanks for the great set of photos enthosfog. Pinnacle on Broadway turned out better than I had expected. The multicoloured spandrel panels are a nice inexpensive touch. This is exactly the sort of infill that we need on our main streets; they are bigger than C2 projects and yet still fill in to the prevailing scale of a neighbourhood.

Good to see Kits360 well above grade, too.

It would have been nice to see an office component to both of these projects. I realise they both have retail at grade, but would it have killed them to add a floor of strata office/medical office space?

[LeftCoaster]

Pinnacle looks great, turned out much better than I expected.

[idunno]

I'm assuming the small lot between Pinnacle and Arbutus Street is reserved for a Skytrain Station entrance?

[entheosfog]

438 Terminal:


Mercedes dealership, 500 Terminal:

[Coldrsx]

Originally Posted by idunno

I'm assuming the small lot between Pinnacle and Arbutus Street is reserved for a Skytrain Station entrance?

Makes sense. Man I miss my old hoods.

[logan5]

Originally Posted by entheosfog

Pinnacle on Broadway:

Now that I've seen a bunch of these mid rise buildings going up at various locations, the architects seem to be following the same formula that they implemented in DT Vancouver - and that is glass, glass and more glass.

If we are going to have a 6 to 12 story structures that rise straight up from the side-walk, should the city not demand some more creative architecture utilizing different materials? The coloured glass panels are starting to look pathetic at this point.

These more massive buildings that are starting to line our streets will eventually create dark canyons with walls of cold glass bearing down on pedestrians below. At least with our old glass and concrete Vancouver formula, we had more open air space, more light.

Thanx for the photos.

[agrant]

Originally Posted by idunno

I'm assuming the small lot between Pinnacle and Arbutus Street is reserved for a Skytrain Station entrance?

Yes, I think that's the idea. I remember this from one of the info documents detailing the project before construction started.

Anyone know what retail is going in, or if that's yet to be decided?

[red-paladin]

Another project near the Cambie corridor; this one on West Broadway with 61 condos over retail on eight floors. W T Leung has designed the project which will replace three small commercial buildings to continue the residential densification of West Broadway. The project already has a June date pencilled in with the Development Permit Board. Our image is only the massing image – it won’t be all glass (which is what the image suggests) but a more traditional brick masonry finish.
http://changingcitybook.com/2012/04/03/238-west-broadway/

My kind of infill!

[dleung]

looks like it's drawn up in sketchup in about 5 minutes. I dunno why almost all Vancouver buildings have massings that look like chunks are blown off by rocket propelled grenades.

[LotusLand]

The building at the corner of Broadway and Fraser has been finally demolished. Can't remember if a 9 or 19 storey building was going in. I may be way off.

[webster]

11 stories i think:

http://vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/cclerk/20100518/documents/p3.pdf

[Homeowner]

Good to see more developments along the BROADWAY corridor. More reason for rapid transit expansion along that route in the future.