Canadian City Proposals

[vanman]

^Yeah that's right. And that really — pawn shop.

[Chadillaccc]

It's so funny because the current Edmonds Village is quite nice and in my opinion was very well done and feels welcoming, then RIGHT next door you have this terrible parking lot with this terrible run down pawn shop and Value village. My ex loved that value village though especially around halloween

[LeftCoaster]

Wow very nice.

I'm getting a little sick of the boxes like the one seen at the top of the tower on the right, but on the whole that's a great looking development.

[Chadillaccc]

and the good thing about Burnaby is they don't have the UDP to screw everything up! Hopefully it will get built as designed like most Burnaby projects

[Martin Mtl]

The crane is up for this one in Old Montreal.

[Robertpuant]

^^^ I'm glad this one is starting! It's been on ice for quite some time now.


It's too early to confirmed any of this info, but those are the last info mentioned in a 4-5 pages Lapresse issue on Montreal's real estate.



Le V went from 40 (136m) to 44 stories (138m).




Le Roccabella is now mentioned to be 40 stories and 147m.




TOM condos is still 40 stories, but we now know it'll be 122m.




Icone at 40 stories is said to be 145m tall.

[Chadillaccc]

Eeeek I love all of them! Especially the height increases and Icone! So pretty!

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by The_Architect

I don't know if this has been posted, but the Church of Scientology is finally fixing up their building at 696 Yonge Street, which has looked like it belongs in New Jersey (and not the nice part) for years. They've already moved to another location for the reno.

Here's what it looks like now (the ugly taller building that says "SCIENTOLOGY" on it):
https://maps.google.ca/maps?q=696+Yonge+Street,+Toronto

And here's what the new face will look like:



It's not incredible, but especially compared to the current building I very much welcome the splash of colour.

They should make the new face of the building a giant, baby eating image of Tom Cruise.

[O-tacular]

Nice to see Montreal getting some decent proposals. Icone looks really cool. TOM also looks interesting. Not a huge fan of Le V though.

[MTLskyline]

I don't get why people like TOM. I find it horrible.

[Rico Rommheim]

Originally Posted by MTLskyline

I don't get why people like TOM. I find it horrible

Because its tall.

[Chadillaccc]

I just like it because it looks cool with all the bends, but yet the lines are so clean. I dunno. Also I like darker coloured towers.

[SignalHillHiker]

Just for the record: I am horrified by that Hilton proposal and will be ashamed if it is built here. It should be by an airport in Tallahassee, not in downtown St. John's. It is a hideous fast food auto parts dealer warehouse industrial park eyesore. Zero elegance. No beauty. Cheap, tacky... Yuck.

[Marty_Mcfly]

Originally Posted by Newfoundlander

Just for the record: I am horrified by that Hilton proposal and will be ashamed if it is built here. It should be by an airport in Tallahassee, not in downtown St. John's. It is a hideous fast food auto parts dealer warehouse industrial park eyesore. Zero elegance. No beauty. Cheap, tacky... Yuck.

If anyone from Tallahassee actually sees what you've been writing about them I can't protect you from what they may do

If we're stuck between the two designs I'll probably float with the older one just because it looks cleaner, though I like the street-level of the new design. I know asking for re-design number three would probably be project homicide though.

[Martin Mtl]

Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim

Because its tall.

Yet it wont register much in the skyline. It's really a filler.

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[someone123]

It is really up to cities to create development approval processes that can weed out these bad designs. The fact is that, if they are pushed, even large chains will build better buildings. At the end of the day, I don't think better architecture has much of an impact on their bottom line, but they will cut what costs they can. As a result the cities that approve indiscriminately get terrible, generic buildings.

Atlantic Canada in particular is far behind the times in terms of architecture and city planning. One common problem in the region is that people think they want developers to recreate heritage buildings. Unfortunately it's normally prohibitively expensive to recreate those buildings, so cheap knock-offs are built instead. People think they are getting Victorian brick and stone buildings but they are getting veneer, precast panels, and press-on plastic and foam components. Invariably the proportions of the buildings are also hideously warped as developers try to stuff in extra space, garage doors, etc. In the end it's not worth it at all.

Hopefully St. John's will get it together quickly enough that some decent buildings will come out of this cycle of construction.

[Marty_Mcfly]

Originally Posted by someone123

Hopefully St. John's will get it together quickly enough that some decent buildings will come out of this cycle of construction.

Eventually the heritage committee will try and have all new office buildings built using old clapboards and driftwood. Developers will always be held by the throat by these cold-on-development heritage types who shudder at the thought of any type of design that doesn't mirror jellybean row. And of course also by those people who feel that the view of the harbour is their god given right. Even those near Springdale whos view is the Oceanex terminal, industrial dock, and sewer treatment plant.

[SignalHillHiker]

Originally Posted by someone123

Hopefully St. John's will get it together quickly enough that some decent buildings will come out of this cycle of construction.

Fingers crossed.

We nailed it with Fortis Place, the Henry-Bell Condo Complex, and 351 but, beyond that, our new buildings are in 7/10 territory at best, in my opinion.

I'd like us to elevate the standard a little more.

And this Hilton proposal is a monstrous leap backwards. It's not intended to be one of our landmark buildings, but because of its height, it will be. So this design is unacceptable.

[PoscStudent]

The new building with Henry Bell is a complete monstrosity.