CF Pacific Centre Developments

[spm2013]

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[LeftCoaster]

Originally Posted by spm2013

Did someone already post these Microsoft sign renders? Don't recall seeing them

Nope, they were just released a week or so ago.

Originally Posted by officedweller

I wonder if Sony would have a sign? Usually there's only one office tenant logo on a building and other lead tenants may get a space on a pillar at the tower entrance.

So on the Robson & Granville corner, "Pacific Centre" sign is just above its entrance and escalator.

Microsoft has sole signage rights on the office portion of the building so there will be no Sony signage, however they will have podium signage on Georgia St.

The Pacific Centre sign at Robson and Granville is supposed to light and provide some more visual appeal to the intersection, so it will be interesting to see how the designer will approach that.

[LeftCoaster]

Also, it's tough to see but the building will feature steel 725 signage on Georgia with the podium tenants represented here, giving the building a bit more presence on Georgia than it would have otherwise.



725 Signage, on Flickr

[nickbeaulieu]

I didn't know they were gonna renovate the entrance to the mall through the TD tower as well. It's about time

[officedweller]

Originally Posted by spm2013

Did someone already post these Microsoft sign renders? Don't recall seeing them



Credit: 725Granville.com

Hey, yeah, that's different than the pics spm2013 posted, which still has the triangular entrance.
Makes sense, though, as they never renovated the floor tile in that entranceway (or stairs).

Not sure if I like the mismatching glass around the entrance.

[connect2source]

I REALLY hope they do the boxy entrance and the updated signage for the east side of the TD Tower, it updates and ties in the with original architecture beautifully!! Love the contrast too!!

[Locked In]

Nice catch OD. I greatly prefer the boxy entrance in the render Leftcoaster posted.

[SpongeG]

do those lights exist on georgia? aren't they only on granville street?

[officedweller]

No they don't.
The ones on Georgia (to the extent they still exist (only on the north side of Georgia and around Robson Square?))
are the multiple bulb ones that look like kernels of corn.

[Joat]

Isn't a Microsoft store going into the mall too?

[officedweller]

Pics by me today:

[trofirhen]

Originally Posted by connect2source

I REALLY hope they do the boxy entrance and the updated signage for the east side of the TD Tower, it updates and ties in the with original architecture beautifully!! Love the contrast too!!

Amen to that!!!!

[spm2013]

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[officedweller]

The base of TD Tower is tinted glass - it's just not reflective, so you can see in easily. The ground level may also lack an added interior UV-film applied to the widows on the office floors.
The only part with clear untinted glass would be the recessed alcove at the Georgia ST. entrance (the structural glass wall).

[nickbeaulieu]

As much of an improvement as this building is, it really is looking like a big mishmash. Especially that view along robson.

[EdinVan]

Originally Posted by nickbeaulieu

As much of an improvement as this building is, it really is looking like a big mishmash. Especially that view along robson.

Mish-mash is right. It's like the builders had all these left-over parts lying around and just decided to throw them onto the building to clear out their inventory -- like when you make a weird sandwich after cleaning out your fridge.

[officedweller]

It's probably the result of someone from the City bashing you over the head repeatedly saying "break up the massing, break up the massing", "humanize the scale, humanize the scale".

At least it's not repetitious, like the Future Shop / Winners façade.

[spm2013]

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[officedweller]

Originally, there never were escalators at that location - it was retail space, and the only way to get to the mall on the south side of Georgia was through Eaton's. I think the escalators were installed in the 1980s, together with the entrance facing the plaza.
...and you could walk from TD Tower lobby through the TD bank to the breezeway and into Eaton's without going outside. That would get you to Robson St. indoors at grade without escalators.

EDIT:

Found a pic - there was an alcove there - with plaza stairs down to the building!
Sure looked like an interesting space back then...


http://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/p...anville-street

I think this is probably the only pic I've seen where you can see the entrance to Eaton's rotunda when it had no doors - just jets or air from above.


http://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/d...-progress-5326

and a plan of the plaza:


http://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/u...449-A74121.jpg

[Design-mind]

From Saturday.