Canadian City Proposals - Page 63

GreaterMontréal · #**1241** Posted **Sep 11, 2014, 8:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by telyou

And Les Condos Urbania has none of that. Laval in general is the definition of cheap, below standard condo developments.

Condo Le Quintessence is more high-end, but it's car-oriented. Urbania is next to a metro station. You can live in ''downtown'' Laval without a car, that was not possible 10 years ago.

Coldrsx · #**1242** Posted **Sep 11, 2014, 10:37 PM**

The blueish green building in the middle is the hotel and residences for the Arena District... rumours have it being a J.W. Marriott...

(http://images.scribblelive.com/2014/8/26/e69f56b5-ed64-4c96-988a-d929a6cd0d9e_500.jpg)

CanadianCentaur · #**1243** Posted **Sep 11, 2014, 11:32 PM**

^ Sounds like a very nice choice for sure!

Calgarian · #**1244** Posted **Sep 11, 2014, 11:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

Modern commie block?

I was thinking it looked slightly like the Stella Nova Luna project in Calgary.

geotag277 · #**1245** Posted **Sep 12, 2014, 3:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by Calgarian

I was thinking it looked slightly like the Stella Nova Luna project in Calgary.

The layout definitely reminds me of the Bosa Evolution compound in EV:

Chadillaccc · #**1246** Posted **Sep 12, 2014, 4:00 PM**

Here is the updated design for Evolution. As the cladding has been put up, it is proving to look a lot more like this than that.

Airboy · #**1247** Posted **Sep 12, 2014, 4:29 PM**

This Dome project for Iqaluit was never built but it sure would have been interesting for the area.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/unde...-was-town-under-concrete-shell-1.2763922

Coldrsx · #**1248** Posted **Sep 12, 2014, 4:44 PM**

^neat and terrifying at the same time.

1overcosc · #**1249** Posted **Sep 12, 2014, 5:25 PM**

In Ottawa the federal government has announced intentions to reboot & fast track the long-planned-but-never-happened redevelopment of Lebreton Flats next to downtown. For context, this area was originally a major industrial site but in the 1960s, the federal government, intent on de-industrializing central Ottawa, expropriated the area and levelled it. It's been a giant swath of vacant land ever since that's largely been reclaimed by nature albeit with massive soil contamination from the legacy of industrial use.

Redevelopment began in the early 2000s, but its so far been a huge flop. The easternmost area of Lebreton Flats, east of Booth Street, was sold off to Claridge Homes who have built condos there. It's quite a failure as a redevelopment, its just a bunch of condo towers with nothing else. Essentially suburban towers-in-the-park style, which is unacceptable given the proximity to downtown (literally right next to the CBD).

The NCC has thus rebooted development plans to stop the same thing from happening to the rest of the area. They want a "major institution" to anchor this redevelopment. Discussions are taking place regarding using this area for a new national science museum, as well as a possible new NHL arena.

The value of the site is huge given its proximity to the core (walking distance to Parliament Hill), and the fact that the area is soon to be the city's major transit junction (the Confederation Line passes through and the current O-Train has its terminus at the western edge of the site).

Airboy · #**1250** Posted **Sep 12, 2014, 5:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by Coldrsx

^neat and terrifying at the same time.

Evil Bond characterish. As much as the weather — there most of the time I prefer the current set up. nothing like walking into a 50kph wind during a blizzard in June.

And we would not have the great yellow Air Terminal, which is about to be replaced by a red terminal.

Urbmtl · #**1251** Posted **Sep 12, 2014, 9:04 PM**

New project in NDG, Montréal.

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Le Beaumont
Le Beaumont NDG : A new lifestyle in the neighbourhood

As the first residential project of its scale in the borough of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, The Beaumont NDG will feature a residential component offering approximately 150 condo units and a commercial component that will include an IGA grocery store.

http://www.mcgillimmobilier.com/en/beaumont-ndg-condo/
http://www.devmcgill.com/lebeaumont/en

Martin Mtl · #**1252** Posted **Sep 12, 2014, 9:17 PM**

That blind street wall is brutal. Otherwise, it's OK I guess.

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someone123 · #**1255** Posted **Sep 13, 2014, 6:00 PM**

New rendering for the Cunard Block in Halifax:

Source: http://southwest.ca

Full size

Rico Rommheim · #**1256** Posted **Sep 13, 2014, 6:31 PM**

Amazing. Halifax is doing things right.

SteelTown · #**1257** Posted **Sep 13, 2014, 7:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by MeIsThomas

Hamilton - Just Announced:

New downtown condo development on Hughson Street North to be built on a surface parking
lot behind Christ's Church Cathedral. (Click here to go to the location in Google Maps).

Source

Looks interesting! Kinda looks like Montreal's Habitat 67. Hopefully we'll see better rendering soon.

Coldrsx · #**1258** Posted **Sep 13, 2014, 9:03 PM**

What 4.8 Billion in downtown development looks like.

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/story_print.html?id=10198815&sponsor=

TallBob · #**1259** Posted **Sep 14, 2014, 12:39 AM**

^^ Very nice!! I hope everything proposed get's built. The one I'm afraid won't make it might be the "Edmontonian".... if it get's built it'll probably be shorter. IMO!

Rico Rommheim · #**1260** Posted **Sep 14, 2014, 2:13 AM**

Good read, Great news. Downtown has already come a long way since I remember it 12 years ago. Back then downtown Edmonton was a joke, in a decade it will be a look like a proper large downtown.