[Halifax] The Roy (1650 Granville) | 71 M | 22 FL | Completed - Page 24

ns_kid · #**461** Posted **Apr 9, 2014, 8:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by kph06

I've heard it will be the same as the Canada Bank building across the street - excavators on the roof. A wrecking ball would be messy in such a small space.

I have no authoritative information to the contrary, but I am finding it hard to imagine that the roof of the Roy Building can bear the load of an excavator. I work above the building and I'd be nervous to walk on that roof!

xanaxanax · #**462** Posted **Apr 9, 2014, 8:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by ns_kid

I have no authoritative information to the contrary, but I am finding it hard to imagine that the roof of the Roy Building can bear the load of an excavator. I work above the building and I'd be nervous to walk on that roof!

I know plenty of people that have hanged out on the roof of the Roy

OldDartmouthMark · #**463** Posted **Apr 9, 2014, 8:46 PM**

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I know plenty of people that have hanged out on the roof of the Roy

With an excavator? How did they get it up there?

Jstaleness · #**464** Posted **Apr 9, 2014, 11:32 PM**

The Roy isn't that tall. Could they use a wrecking ball but just smash down top to bottom allowing each floor to fall down to the next?

ILoveHalifax · #**465** Posted **Apr 9, 2014, 11:44 PM**

I would show up for a controlled implosion. Can't wait to see that ugly old building down.

Drybrain · #**466** Posted **Apr 9, 2014, 11:51 PM**

I think you guys are forgetting that there's an occupied building literally directly next to the Roy--like, brick-to-brick. I'm going to imagine this proceeds more like a dis-assembly than a demolition.

Jstaleness · #**467** Posted **Apr 10, 2014, 12:53 AM**

Demo shouldn't be that hard. Looking at the picture a few posts back it's in pretty sad shape. Piece by piece seems reasonable.

ILoveHalifax · #**468** Posted **Apr 10, 2014, 12:54 AM**

Gee if the Johnson bldg. came down by accident all the better.

OldDartmouthMark · #**469** Posted **Apr 10, 2014, 2:24 PM**

Wasn't the original plan to disassemble it and later rebuild the facade using most of the original materials?

Maybe that changed along the way and I missed it...

Drybrain · #**470** Posted **Apr 10, 2014, 2:43 PM**

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Originally Posted by OldDartmouthMark

Wasn't the original plan to disassemble it and later rebuild the facade using most of the original materials?

Maybe that changed along the way and I missed it...

Yeah, but they've never really committed to how much of the original material they were going to use. It's kind of up in the air how much (if any) will be original materials, and how much will be faux. The quality of the renderings is high, and Starfish has done excellent restoration work on other buildings, so I have high hopes it'll look good--but I think we'll have to wait until it's under construction to get a better sense of it.

Jonovision · #**471** Posted **Apr 10, 2014, 3:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by ILoveHalifax

Gee if the Johnson bldg. came down by accident all the better.

The Johnson building is beautiful and went through a major restoration a few years ago. All it needs to do is get the government boardroom out of the potential Barrington retail space and put an actual store in there.

OldDartmouthMark · #**472** Posted **Apr 10, 2014, 3:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by Drybrain

Yeah, but they've never really committed to how much of the original material they were going to use. It's kind of up in the air how much (if any) will be original materials, and how much will be faux. The quality of the renderings is high, and Starfish has done excellent restoration work on other buildings, so I have high hopes it'll look good--but I think we'll have to wait until it's under construction to get a better sense of it.

Thanks and yes, I'm hopeful that they will do it justice as well. Was just a little confused with the talk of knocking it down as that would not be a good way to salvage reusable materials, obviously.

worldlyhaligonian · #**473** Posted **Apr 10, 2014, 6:24 PM**

I hope they can reuse some of the existing material, but I didn't know the building was in that bad of shape... It would make sense to build one layer of the building with the best of the best material.

kph06 · #**474** Posted **Apr 14, 2014, 9:23 AM**

Scaffolding is being built on the Barrington Street side, looks like it may extend all the way up the face, the wood framed overhang on Granville is gone and the PCL site office is in the basement of the Vogue Optical building, not the old tattoo shop as I mentioned earlier. This is a photo from yesterday: