Winnipeg Construction

[Jeff]

Originally Posted by JamieDavid Exchange

I saw that area for myself today. I must say it looks absolutely horrendous!!!!!! I sure hope its only temporary cause it totally does not fit in and is out of scale to the rest of Graham.

yeah, noticed one each of these "funtional" traffic lights pop up at main and market right in front of city hall, as well as one at portage and notre dame. looks horrible inter-mixed with the high-profile heritage streetscaping of both streets. there's also one up at vaughn and portage that has irked me for years! might be completely a safety protocol, but there is something to be said about continuity.

one thing i have appreciated, although, are the new stainless steel lights standards used along edmonton between graham and portage and along the newly-completed reconstruction of fort between graham and portage. hope these are the new standard downtown.

*end of streetlight rant*

[Jeff]

and isn't that something, four 20+ floor towers on the pipe for downtown within the next couple of years. haven't been able to say that ever since this forum has been in existence i'm pretty sure.

[armorand93]

Originally Posted by Jeff

and isn't that something, four 20+ floor towers on the pipe for downtown within the next couple of years. haven't been able to say that ever since this forum has been in existence i'm pretty sure.

It hasn't been like this since 1988!

Originally Posted by lilwayne

only 14 stories wtffff

whats that 60 meters including the parkade

I'd take 14 floors and a parkade, over a single-floor commercial space. SPEAKING of parkades, saw the new one on Princess Street at 10pm, looks amazing

[AB Born]

Originally Posted by headhorse

Glasshouse


from http://www.glasshousewinnipeg.com

more here: http://glasshousewinnipeg.com/

This looks awesome!

[trueviking]

^really?

looks like an old school ice cube tray to me....maybe its just a preliminary image....i'm underwhelmed.

very affordable...will be interesting to see how big they are.

they are sure working that parkade facade as the feature....great project, but the design isnt exactly earth shattering....yet at least...we'll see how it ends up.

at least its glass....a very refreshing change....will look good in the skyline.

[roccerfeller]

Originally Posted by Jeff

and isn't that something, four 20+ floor towers on the pipe for downtown within the next couple of years. haven't been able to say that ever since this forum has been in existence i'm pretty sure.

May be even more with the the WCC Expansion reveal Nov 13

Originally Posted by trueviking

very affordable...will be interesting to see how big they are.

Agreed....assuming those are single bedroom prices (those would be a steal)

I'm assuming those are studio prices though

[Boreal]

Clean and crisp. I like it. Should be a quality development for downtown Winnipeg. I'm looking forward to seeing everything take shape over the next number of years.

[JamieDavid Exchange]

Originally Posted by lilwayne

only 14 stories wtffff

whats that 60 meters including the parkade

I do believe it reads on their site that it will be 22 stories.

[Bigtime]

I really like the Glasshouse proposal. Keep it up Winnipeg!

[armorand93]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

I really like the Glasshouse proposal. Keep it up Winnipeg!

We can finally start having glass in buildings, something Calgary has done for the past 25 years

[jmt18325]

What's glass? haha

[h0twired]

Originally Posted by armorand93

We can finally start having glass in buildings, something Calgary has done for the past 25 years

Not until we run out of stucco first!

[Riverman]

I'd want to know what the warranty is on the sealed units before I purchased a condo there, and sell before the warranty expired.

[h0twired]

Originally Posted by Riverman

I'd want to know what the warranty is on the sealed units before I purchased a condo there, and sell before the warranty expired.

I would rather have a glass curtain wall than a framed wall that could get moisture issues that I can't see.

[cheswick]

Originally Posted by Riverman

I'd want to know what the warranty is on the sealed units before I purchased a condo there, and sell before the warranty expired.

Typcially new condos are covered by new home warranty programs which is 1 year material defects/labour and 5 years structual. (But exterior issues would be covered by the common insurance paid by condo fees anyway I'd assume.)

Exception being hertitage conversions. The streetside ones on james only had the 1 year with no 5 year structual. The realtor at the time told me they'd be crazy to offer a 5 year waranty on such an old building. I think maybe he was a bit too honest as they have a new team selling them now.

[drew]

Originally Posted by cheswick

Typcially new condos are covered by new home warranty programs which is 1 year material defects/labour and 5 years structual. (But exterior issues would be covered by the common insurance paid by condo fees anyway I'd assume.)

Exception being hertitage conversions. The streetside ones on james only had the 1 year with no 5 year structual. The realtor at the time told me they'd be crazy to offer a 5 year waranty on such an old building. I think maybe he was a bit too honest as they have a new team selling them now.

The warranty on buying in an old warehouse building is the fact it has proven itself over the past 100 years.

They could offer warranty on the new structural elements like stairwells, elevator hoist-ways, window openings etc. but I can understand not wanting to warranty a 100 year old masonry walls, and timber structure.

[h0twired]

Originally Posted by cheswick

Typcially new condos are covered by new home warranty programs which is 1 year material defects/labour and 5 years structual. (But exterior issues would be covered by the common insurance paid by condo fees anyway I'd assume.)

Exception being hertitage conversions. The streetside ones on james only had the 1 year with no 5 year structual. The realtor at the time told me they'd be crazy to offer a 5 year waranty on such an old building. I think maybe he was a bit too honest as they have a new team selling them now.

What Riverman was getting at was that he wanted to know the point at which the window manufacturer would not be warrantying the glass any longer where the condo owners could face a potential special assessment for the replacement of the windows should they all fail.

Condo boards rarely collect enough money to cover the replacement of the windows for an entire building.

All that being said. Typically, if there are window seal issues they will usually show up in a small percentage of the windows pretty early on and they can be fixed one at a time. Affected windows can be fixed without having to replace the entire frame which prevents the building from having to replace all of the windows to retain the buildings architectural continuity.

Typically a window seal for a fixed unit has a 15-25 year warranty (if the company still exists then).

[Riverman]

^^^ Correct Sir.

Replacing windows on upper floors is expensive and the owner would be responsible for the cost.

That is a good point you made about the company still being in business to honour the warranty. Yikes.

I've looked quite a bit into condo ownership for our retirement and frankly I can't make sense out of it.

[h0twired]

Originally Posted by Riverman

^^^ Correct Sir.

Replacing windows on upper floors is expensive and the owner would be responsible for the cost.

That is a good point you made about the company still being in business to honour the warranty. Yikes.

I've looked quite a bit into condo ownership for our retirement and frankly I can't make sense out of it.

How is it anymore expensive compared to replacing the windows in your own house?

[JamieDavid Exchange]

^^^^^^^^^^^
You guys get so off topic sometimes that it ruins the excitement of new development news. How many pages of insurance talk is this gonna turn out to be? Lets start talking about city population sizes again while we're at it.....