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Work on New Westminster's Trapp and Holbrook Condos is wellll underway!

Quite the impressive development, right downtown on Columbia Street, close to the UC civic centre office tower & convention centre and Plaza 88, only a couple minutes walk to both Columbia and New Westminster Skytrain Stations.



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Old Posted Apr 22, 2013, 5:44 PM
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I remember admiring that old building on Columbia. Shame they're only keeping its facade, the interior had got good bones. But at least the facade being kept. New West has got to be one of Canada's nicest looking 'suburb', although I have a hard time calling it that.
     
     
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Old Posted Apr 22, 2013, 6:18 PM
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I remember admiring that old building on Columbia. Shame they're only keeping its facade, the interior had got good bones. But at least the facade being kept. New West has got to be one of Canada's nicest looking 'suburb', although I have a hard time calling it that.
It is definitely (in my opinion) Canada's most urban suburb for sure! As it is the oldest incorporated city in mainland BC (as far as I know?) I loved living there. A suburb with a cool gay bar with live music and smoking allowed on the patio! Plus tons of other cool bars and lounges all down Columbia. It's an absolutely great place to live, plus it is extremely well connected to rapid transit.
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Old Posted Apr 24, 2013, 3:32 PM
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Well would you look at that! Edmonton's residential tower boom is picking up steam with a vengeance!!
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Recladding work going on at the top 1/3 of One Wall Centre, changing the lighter coloured glass to the darker glass of the bottom 2/3 of the tower! It's gonna look awesome!


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One Wall Centre (completed in 2001) is a major Vancouver landmark and my current home. In 2001 it was voted as the best new skyscraper in the world by Emporis and it was Vancouver's tallest building until the completion of Shangri-La in 2008. As there will be lots of more photos from this building in the future, I will create it its very own thread.

Currently the building is undergoing a major renovation work where the windows of the top 18 floors (floors 30-48) will be replaced with new ones. The new windows will be of the same reflective glass as the first 30 floors and 12 years after the completion will finally make the building look like it originally designed.

For the past two months workmen have been working on the roof, building a huge platform surrounding the whole building. This platform is now operational and it will provide the workmen a platform to stand on while replacing window elements. Once a floor is completed, the platform will be lowered one floor below and the work will resume. Replacing all windows on one floor is expected to take one week, at least once the workmen catch their new routine. The work started officially end of last week, but nothing is visible yet.

Below are some photos from today. More to follow in the weeks to come.







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What was wrong with the top glass?
     
     
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The fact that it was extremely noticeably different than the bottom 2/3 of the tower? The city forced the developer to do it during construction, but now they're fixing the ridiculousness that the city forced upon them.
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Old Posted Apr 24, 2013, 9:32 PM
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What an odd premise. Why would the city force such a thing on a developer. They should get restitution from the city for this fix-up.
     
     
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