Winnipeg Construction - Page 460

Smron · #**9181** Posted **May 24, 2013, 11:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by Shinook

So, remind me again why many people here were bitching about that announcement on Wednesday?

Mainly because it's the internet and I'm allowed to 🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵 all I want. However, I stand by my position.

Now I have been absent from the forums for a good while and I only checked in here a few weeks ago to read about Fortress and their intentions to build a tall building. Next it was 'stay tuned for a big announcement...' I eagerly awaited. The announcement turned out to be 'Hi, we are Fortress and we want to build a tall building.' So yeah, it was a letdown. It didn't give me any reason to be excited, or at least more excited than I already was. Publicity stunt? Yes. Announcement? Not so much.

Anyways, that is enough of my rant. I am still excited about the prospect of a new tallest.

Riverman · #**9182** Posted **May 25, 2013, 12:12 AM**

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Originally Posted by Shinook

You gave off a scolding anger in your post.

You read scolding anger into everything. It seems to be your thing.

beatlesque · #**9183** Posted **May 25, 2013, 10:18 AM**

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Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

The typical max for a 42 storey res tower is about 146. That's usually with a hat....

There is also Festival Tower in Toronto (completely residential) with 42 storeys, a roof height of 152 meters, and a spire height of 157 meters....

Re: 42-storey towers, some of them seem to be incorporating wind turbines e.g., The Bahrain World Trade Center Towers:

http://www.ecogeek.org/architecture/695

and the 42-storey Strata building in London, which was picked as Britain's ugliest new building:

"The 42-storey building in Elephant & Castle was nominated for its 'plain visual grotesqueness' and 'Philishave stylings'"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/aug/12/strata-tower-britains-ugliest-building

Incidentally, it seems Sault Ste. Marie was looking at building a 42-storey tower at one point - don't know what happened with that.

Anyway, I think tv would be a good choice to design a new tower in WPG. A slam dunk choice, or (more topically) a volley like Robben's here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zl6znfigTM

bomberjet · #**9184** Posted **May 25, 2013, 2:14 PM**

Anybody know if construction started on the Edgewood Estates 22 storey tower on Whellams Lane? Supposed to start this spring?

cllew · #**9185** Posted **May 25, 2013, 4:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by bomberjet

Anybody know if construction started on the Edgewood Estates 22 storey tower on Whellams Lane? Supposed to start this spring?

Was over the Settlers bridge on Thursday and didn't see anything in progress. The foundation equipment that was sitting there last fall is also gone.

Cyro · #**9186** Posted **May 25, 2013, 8:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by Smron

Anyways, that is enough of my rant. I am still excited about the prospect of a new tallest.

I like the positive in your rant.

vid · #**9187** Posted **May 25, 2013, 9:55 PM**

Sault Ste. Marie's 42 storey building is actually slowly progressing. Absurd as that whole proposal is. So if you guys want that "Tallest Between Toronto and Calgary" title, you better hurry up!

1ajs · #**9188** Posted **May 26, 2013, 12:40 AM**

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Originally Posted by vid

Sault Ste. Marie's 42 storey building is actually slowly progressing. Absurd as that whole proposal is. So if you guys want that "Tallest Between Toronto and Calgary" title, you better hurry up!

searioulsly?

CodeGreen · #**9189** Posted **May 26, 2013, 1:21 AM**

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Originally Posted by beatlesque

Re: 42-storey towers, some of them seem to be incorporating wind turbines e.g., The Bahrain World Trade Center Towers:

http://www.ecogeek.org/architecture/695
...

I hope these wouldn't make the same kind of noise the ones West of Miami,Manitoba make.
Anyone that has been near one of the wind turbines while it is on should know why, the noise they make even from hundreds of feet away is crazy, i can't imagine having that close to windows or a balcony where i would live or even work.
Unless of course there is someway for them to make them quieter, i'm no wind turbine expert or anything...

vid · #**9190** Posted **May 26, 2013, 2:30 AM**

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Originally Posted by 1ajs

searioulsly?

It was actually in the news yesterday. The building it will be replacing was hit with arson in February and the developer from Toronto hasn't yet demolished it, the city will likely do so. They're saying the project is still going forward but are now non-committal to the number of floors.

It would have looked like this:

rrskylar · #**9191** Posted **May 26, 2013, 3:14 AM**

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Originally Posted by bomberjet

Anybody know if construction started on the Edgewood Estates 22 storey tower on Whellams Lane? Supposed to start this spring?

True inking would know, he's the biggest nimby in regards to that project

Shinook · #**9192** Posted **May 26, 2013, 3:47 AM**

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Originally Posted by vid

Sault Ste. Marie's 42 storey building is actually slowly progressing. Absurd as that whole proposal is. So if you guys want that "Tallest Between Toronto and Calgary" title, you better hurry up!

According to some on the Ottawa thread, this project has been scaled back to between 20-24 floors; a more realistic size of tower for a small, isolated city like Sault Ste. Marie.

trueviking · #**9193** Posted **May 26, 2013, 3:47 AM**

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Originally Posted by rrskylar

True inking would know, he's the biggest nimby in regards to that project

Mom moved. No longer her back yard. Build your suburban skyscraper paradise. Doesn't bother me!

1ajs · #**9194** Posted **May 26, 2013, 4:46 AM**

whats one need for a building ocupancy permit? i gotta go down that path soon for a space

1ajs · #**9195** Posted **May 26, 2013, 8:09 AM**

the gem really shines inside even has the hardwood floors in some of the rooms witch is really surprizing

Jets4Life · #**9196** Posted **May 26, 2013, 8:30 AM**

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Originally Posted by Biff

Great points, eeeevvvvvery one knows about Fortress right now.

I think they succeeded in every way, except of course for the typical small group of very vocal Whinnepeggers who think that everything is a bad idea, takes money out of their pocket or will never work in this city.

Or the people who research the developers checkered past:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2013/05/23/mb-rathore-skyscraper-tower-ontario-securities-commission.html

http://www.orilliapacket.com/2012/09/28/...inked-to-alleged-stock-manipulation-deal

http://www.mfda.ca/enforcement/hearings05/Decision200504.pdf