Canadian City Proposals - Page 329

SignalHillHiker · #**6561** Posted **Feb 13, 2013, 1:45 AM**

Completely agree. Existing design is a faux-heritage atrocity, a crime against the city... but... let's wait and see.

Darkoshvilli · #**6562** Posted **Feb 13, 2013, 1:48 AM**

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Originally Posted by LeftCoaster

Last I heard there was actually going to be a habs logo. Nothing is set in stone though..

Architype · #**6563** Posted **Feb 13, 2013, 1:51 AM**

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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

Completely agree. Existing design is a faux-heritage atrocity, a crime against the city... but... let's wait and see.

Glad you agree, but I already knew that you did !

This is the good side:

Source, from land use assesment

Coldrsx · #**6564** Posted **Feb 13, 2013, 1:55 AM**

New quarters arts hab for Edmonton.

(http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/edmonton/7955381.bin?size=620x400s)

Chadillaccc · #**6565** Posted **Feb 14, 2013, 3:00 AM**

Don't know if this awesome render of Kings Wharf in Halifax has been posted before. Looks great! Two of the shorter towers are already built. Another one and potentially the tallest tower will start this year!

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Originally Posted by fenwick16

Although this image has been posted before, this seems to be a larger size.

Is construction currently taking place? Have the piles been driven for either tower 3 or tower 4?

(source: http://kingswharf.ca/about/ )

Martin Mtl · #**6566** Posted **Feb 14, 2013, 3:05 AM**

Nice render.

Nouvellecosse · #**6567** Posted **Feb 14, 2013, 3:42 AM**

Wtf did they do to the Halifax skyline and why did they do it? They added a 2nd shorter 1801 Hollis and RBC building, and a 2nd (and 3rd) shorter Maritime Centre? and removed the Fenwick tower and several other buildings in the South End?

Why??

MTLskyline · #**6568** Posted **Feb 14, 2013, 3:45 AM**

If Dartmouth can put up a nice project like that facing Halifax, why can't Longueuil do the same?

trueviking · #**6569** Posted **Feb 14, 2013, 4:07 AM**

could have done without the ridiculous moon in that rendering.....its rising in the wrong sky anyways.

Andrewjm3D · #**6570** Posted **Feb 14, 2013, 4:24 AM**

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Originally Posted by Architype

Glad you agree, but I already knew that you did !

This is the good side:

Source, from land use assesment

This looks like a 1 story office park on top of a cheap motel on top of a fast food restaurant. If it's those three things then they nailed it.

rapid_business · #**6571** Posted **Feb 14, 2013, 4:18 PM**

100%!

jeddy1989 · #**6572** Posted **Feb 14, 2013, 5:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by Andrewjm3D

This looks like a 1 story office park on top of a cheap motel on top of a fast food restaurant. If it's those three things then they nailed it.

after speaking to the president of Manga Hotels, I am confident that this is definitely not what this building will look like when built. keep your eye out for updates (this design has resulted from the neighbors wanting heritage built in an open lot downtown and they wanted it to look shorter.. we attended the public meeting to counter those destructive opinions and we were received very well.

Keep in mind they are also the developers of the start of the sea condos, therefore they can make a very attractive creative building:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=145930
that development takes the surrounding area into the design beautifully

SHOFEAR · #**6573** Posted **Feb 14, 2013, 5:55 PM**

wow. it would look horrible and out of place anywhere else...but it works so well for St johns.

davidivivid · #**6574** Posted **Feb 14, 2013, 5:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by Andrewjm3D

This looks like a 1 story office park on top of a cheap motel on top of a fast food restaurant. If it's those three things then they nailed it.

Hahahaha!! Good one Andrew!

SignalHillHiker · #**6575** Posted **Feb 14, 2013, 6:01 PM**

Exactly. Spot on.

Sadly, that wasn't the objective. The objective was to satisfy demands from (literally) cane-holding local residents who wanted no one in any of the hotel rooms to have a view into their backyards/windows. That's why the blank walls. They also complained about the height. That's why it's split in three, to make it look shorter, and why each window blends together two floors to make it look shorter than it is.

AND the demands of a Heritage Protection Committee that, simply because this vacant plot of land is currently in a Heritage Residential zone, believes it should be faux (read: tacky) heritage. That's why the fake brick.

The entire exterior is just plain, ****ing ugly. Even if the shape of the building was attractive... it's a suburban ****hole hotel, NOT suitable for one of the most prominent places in our skyline.

jeddy1989 · #**6576** Posted **Feb 14, 2013, 6:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by SHOFEAR

wow. it would look horrible and out of place anywhere else...but it works so well for St johns.

especially when it's surrounded by houses like these:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/toria-clark/8095596268/
Photo by Toria Clark

photo from: http://citymovement.wordpress.com/tag/an-te-lui/

SignalHillHiker · #**6577** Posted **Feb 14, 2013, 7:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by SHOFEAR

wow. it would look horrible and out of place anywhere else...but it works so well for St johns.

Aww, yay!

We really want our modern architecture to be equally obviously St. John's as the heritage buildings.

And this building... I just love it. I LOVE it. It's easily my favourite attempt thus far to go modern while incorporating our heritage here.