Construction sites in your city/town - Page 142

Ramako · #**2821** Posted **Jan 11, 2013, 7:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by martin mtl

almost done... Montreal's new planetarium.

source: cardin-ramirez-julien, architects.

The wood paneling kind of makes the dome look like Jupiter. Nice touch.

Ramako · #**2822** Posted **Jan 11, 2013, 7:30 PM**

So it rained a couple days ago and pit for King Charlotte got a little wet:

From Lawrence Black's twitter feed

From TorontoUrbanRealty.com

The architect is architectsAlliance.

Ramako · #**2823** Posted **Jan 11, 2013, 7:44 PM**

The Berczy has almost topped out:

By Miscreant at Urban Toronto

From Urban Toronto

Dwils01 · #**2824** Posted **Jan 12, 2013, 7:28 PM**

That one has really moved fast. I remember taking pics of it last year when it was just a hole in the ground.

SignalHillHiker · #**2825** Posted **Jan 12, 2013, 11:03 PM**

January 12, 2013

The glass is finally starting to climb Fortis:

And 351 is coming along:

Martin Mtl · #**2826** Posted **Jan 12, 2013, 11:20 PM**

It's nice to see some quality mid-rises going up in Toronto, but on this particular picture, L Tower gets all my attention. What a stunning profile !

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Originally Posted by Ramako

The Berczy has almost topped out:

By Miscreant at Urban Toronto

Wishblade · #**2827** Posted **Jan 13, 2013, 12:02 AM**

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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

January 12, 2013

The glass is finally starting to climb Fortis:

And 351 is coming along:

What a hideous building that second one is. The parking structure just destroys anything visually appealing about this and the proportions just seem really weird also.

SignalHillHiker · #**2828** Posted **Jan 13, 2013, 12:18 AM**

I imagine your opinion is going to be a common one, Wishblade.

There are some additional features to be added to the parkade that will break it up visually - some design elements and an exterior restaurant. But not enough that it would significantly change anyone's opinion of the building. You might think, "O.K., not as bad as I thought, but still..." - but that'd be it.

There are elements of it that I love - the glass and panels create very different and beautiful reflections in every light. And it's so open inside - no concrete pillars or anything like that. And the view of old St. John's, even from the parkade, is spectacular:

But I, too, have been concerned about the parkade - since the beginning. It's an unfortunate result of two ongoing factors: the city requires all new buildings to supply their own off-street parking. Developers aren't willing to spend what it costs to blast underground parkades into our bedrock.

Additionally, in this specific case, the building is on reclaimed land, on top of rubble pushed into the harbour following the Great Fire of 1892.

We'll see how it goes.

For now, I'm fine with it because I love the glass so much and because Harbour Drive is so industrial anyway. And our Downtown West End (which, let's say, begins with this building) needs a lot of work. It has a handful of towers but the rest of the lots have roadhouse bar-quality buildings or empty. I just want us to fill it in and this is a great start.

Husky Energy is going to love it!

someone123 · #**2829** Posted **Jan 13, 2013, 1:45 AM**

I think the Berczy is a bit clunky, but the L Tower looks great. A nicer Berczy design might have had a broken up lower facade to maintain the rhythm established by the nearby heritage building and lighter upper floors without large white cornices.

kph06 posted some nice Halifax updates today:

Citadel Hotel

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Originally Posted by kph06

A couple form this afternoon by me:

RBC Waterside centre -- unusual angle. Duke Tower is the building on the left. I don't think buildings like that work well when they are 90% of a neighbourhood, but they do provide visual contrast and I think they will be more valued as they age. Hopefully some buildings like that will be preserved before they are all modified or torn down. People in the 1960's didn't really appreciate 1920's architecture and we don't appreciate 1960's architecture today.

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One from this afternoon by me:

Nova Centre excavation site, with the TD crane in the background:

http://www.novascotiawebcams.com/halifax/nova-centre-construction.html

Innsertnamehere · #**2830** Posted **Jan 13, 2013, 2:34 AM**

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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

But I, too, have been concerned about the parkade - since the beginning. It's an unfortunate result of two ongoing factors: the city requires all new buildings to supply their own off-street parking. Developers aren't willing to spend what it costs to blast underground parkades into our bedrock.

Additionally, in this specific case, the building is on reclaimed land, on top of rubble pushed into the harbour following the Great Fire of 1892.

We'll see how it goes.

For now, I'm fine with it because I love the glass so much and because Harbour Drive is so industrial anyway. And our Downtown West End (which, let's say, begins with this building) needs a lot of work. It has a handful of towers but the rest of the lots have roadhouse bar-quality buildings or empty. I just want us to fill it in and this is a great start.

Husky Energy is going to love it!

That seems like a ton of parking for such a small office building. (in GTA terms) is there a public parking portion to it? because it seems like there is WAAYYY more parking than what would normally be proportional for a 6 floor office building.

also, is there much transit in St. Johns? I understand that it is only buses, but do they run at half decent frequencies, and have popular heavily used routes? (under 10-15 minutes frequencies)

Andrewjm3D · #**2831** Posted **Jan 13, 2013, 3:42 AM**

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Originally Posted by Ramako

The Berczy has almost topped out:

By Miscreant at Urban Toronto

From Urban Toronto

The Berczy looks awesome. I love how it lines up with the historic structures along front street. This is one of many great mid rises going up right now but one of the only ones to be shown on this site.

Darkoshvilli · #**2832** Posted **Jan 13, 2013, 8:07 AM**

By Memphis 22 from mtlurb.com

10 floors to go

http://www.mtlurb.com/forums/showthread....tyard-Montr%C3%A9al-Centre-ville/page175

SignalHillHiker · #**2833** Posted **Jan 13, 2013, 8:59 AM**

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Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere

That seems like a ton of parking for such a small office building. (in GTA terms) is there a public parking portion to it? because it seems like there is WAAYYY more parking than what would normally be proportional for a 6 floor office building.

also, is there much transit in St. Johns? I understand that it is only buses, but do they run at half decent frequencies, and have popular heavily used routes? (under 10-15 minutes frequencies)

I'm always amazed by how other people think. I would never wonder if there was a public parking portion viewing a building like this in another city - it'd just never come to mind, ha!

Yes, there is a public portion - a substantial one, I believe - paid for by the city.

As for transit... we do not have convenient public transit. You simply must have no other options to even consider it. And it's worse than just offering only buses. Winnipeg offered only buses and I used that public transit system ALL the time. Ours is just very poorly planned.

However, we do have a little genius in our group who is probably going to run for St. John's council this fall. Part of his platform will be improving public transit. Here is his idea:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=5957689&postcount=8

Martin Mtl · #**2834** Posted **Jan 13, 2013, 2:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by Darkoshvilli

By Memphis 22 from mtlurb.com

10 floors to go

http://www.mtlurb.com/forums/showthread....tyard-Montr%C3%A9al-Centre-ville/page175

You have to stop doing this. The MtlUrb forum is set as to not allow repost of pictures from it.

Chadillaccc · #**2835** Posted **Jan 14, 2013, 1:00 AM**

Centre Square Place - 11 floors, 36 meters

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Originally Posted by Mike328

Yup, believe they will top it off sometime this month if I remember their Twitter feed correctly.

Updated images on their FaceBook page also - https://www.facebook.com/CSPRegina

They also have another one UC that will be 45 meters and 13 floors. It's about half done.

Ramako · #**2836** Posted **Jan 14, 2013, 2:54 AM**

MaRS phase 2 is almost complete. The MaRS complex is supposed to be an incubator space for innovative tech start-ups. The goal is encourage collaboration between scientific research and business by offering lab space, lectures space, meeting rooms, office spaces, etc.

By Jasonzed at Urban Toronto

Chadillaccc · #**2837** Posted **Jan 14, 2013, 2:57 AM**

Wow that looks wicked! How many square feet is the complex?

EDIT: Wow, just read a bit, apparently it is at least 1.4 million square feet, and that doesn't even include the heritage building.

Ramako · #**2838** Posted **Jan 14, 2013, 3:02 AM**

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Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

Wow that looks wicked! How many square feet is the complex?

The original MaRS complex was 750,000 square feet. The new tower will add an additional 780,000 square feet.

More details here:
http://www.marsdd.com/facilities/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MaRS_Discovery_District

Ramako · #**2839** Posted **Jan 14, 2013, 3:05 AM**

Pier 27 is finally getting some cladding. Architect is architectsAlliance.

All pics by cruzin4u at Urban Toronto

National Post

SignalHillHiker · #**2840** Posted **Jan 14, 2013, 2:37 PM**

January 14, 2012

A few more pictures of 351 and Fortis Place.

Note how empty our Downtown West End is. It's not even that it's industrial. That's fine. I can handle industrial. But it's just empty. There's nothing. There are so many underused and vacant lots. I really hope we see it fill in soon. There are a handful of major and approved proposals for the area... filling that in is going to make such a huge difference for our city and our skyline.

Visually, 351 is basically the border between the Old Town and the Downtown West End - although there are some modern buildings between it and Old Town.