General Vancouver Updates

[Genauso]

Originally Posted by BodomReaper

This is exactly one of the thesis ideas I'm kicking around for grad school (though it might have been done already) - designing a regulatory framework that regulates the negative externalities of density rather than density itself. Unless one prescribes to the anti-urban view that population itself is a negative needing to be controlled, I see no reason to impose FSR caps when setbacks, shadowing, parking etc. can all be held to appropriate standards directly and quantitatively.

I've always thought every property should be zoned according to what you can see by walking around at the site from ground level. Set some fixed key zonings around the city to anchor/group different land uses or building heights together, but then let every neighbourhood develop and change one building at a time, and one block at a time.

[osirisboy]

That will be nice. Although the original part of the willow care centre was from 1914 (they fail to mention that in the link) with the additions from the 40s.

Picture of it here

https://www.flickr.com/photos/bobkh/2787285865/

[macky604]

[IMG]http://http://vancouver4life.com/mercer-...er-new-development-presale/#!prettyPhoto[1]/http://vancouver4life.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/mercer_home_slider_1-1000x625.jpg[/IMG]

[dleung]

Originally Posted by officedweller

From Changing City Updates:

Joe & Rosalie Segal Family Centre at VGH


http://changingcitybook.com/2014/12/01/joe-rosalie-segal-family-centre-at-vgh/

I yawned so hard my jaw cracked

[officedweller]

Courier story on those two lowrise projects on Dunbar - both of which are proposed to have grocery stores.

http://www.vancourier.com/news/developing-story-dunbar-redevelopments-seek-approval-1.1662106


Rendering: Henriquez Partners Architects
http://www.vancourier.com/news/developing-story-dunbar-redevelopments-seek-approval-1.1662106

[Prometheus]

Remember this proposal for 5th and Burrard?


http://changingcitybook.com/2014/12/17/1819-west-5th-avenue/



It has been changed:

the Urban Design Panel reviewed the project, and unanimously rejected the design. The proposal took liberties with the view cone in the area and was also substantially higher than guidelines suggest.

Here is what the new UDP-safe, viewcone-safe proposal looks like:


http://changingcitybook.com/2014/12/17/1819-west-5th-avenue/

[Vin]

LOL, from avant garde to a pile of nothingness, as usual.

[osirisboy]

Seriously how the hell does the "design committee" think the new design is better. Can the city get rid of these losers and put some new people in

[officedweller]

Originally Posted by officedweller

Small retail residential project on South Granville @ West 6th Ave.:

http://changingcitybook.com/2014/11/17/1510-west-6th-avenue/

http://www.vancouvermarket.ca/2014/11/18...-highlights-trend-for-small-site-infill/

Depending on cladding - it could look remarkably bad -
but it's for a fashion designer, Zonda Nellis,
so hopefully she's on the ball with the colour of the spandrel (shown in the rendering), etc.


http://changingcitybook.com/2014/11/17/1510-west-6th-avenue/

New rendering for this one too.
Looks better - the mullions have been beefed up and suggest some "structure".


http://changingcitybook.com/2014/12/18/1510-west-6th-avenue/

[Vanelevatorman]

The old one looked better

[Jebby]

Originally Posted by Vanelevatorman

The old one looked better

Completely disagree.

[officedweller]

Shipping container housing project - Hastings & Hawks:


http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/brit...mits-of-container-homes/article22175009/

The Atira Women’s Resource Society, which applied for a rezoning for the project last month, is hoping to create 26 social-housing units in the building, which will use about 90 shipping containers stacked seven high on a lot at Hastings and Hawks on the edge of the Downtown Eastside.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/brit...mits-of-container-homes/article22175009/

[SFUVancouver]

Originally Posted by officedweller

Shipping container housing project - Hastings & Hawks:


http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/brit...mits-of-container-homes/article22175009/

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/brit...mits-of-container-homes/article22175009/

90 shipping containers X 8' (container width) X 40' (container length) = 28,800 ft2. Divide that by 26 units and you get 1,107 ft2 per unit. With it being seven storeys in height, that works out to less than four units per floor.

Something is clearly up with the numbers, so unless the containers also provide hallways, common spaces, and vertical circulation, the unit count numbers seems impossibly low or the unit sizes are very high, like three to four bedrooms apiece. None the less, cool project!

[hollywoodnorth]

Originally Posted by SFUVancouver

90 shipping containers X 8' (container width) X 40' (container length) = 28,800 ft2. Divide that by 26 units and you get 1,107 ft2 per unit. With it being seven storeys in height, that works out to less than four units per floor.

Something is clearly up with the numbers, so unless the containers also provide hallways, common spaces, and vertical circulation, the unit count numbers seems impossibly low or the unit sizes are very high, like three to four bedrooms apiece. None the less, cool project!

more info here >> http://www.vancouvermarket.ca/2014/12/11/proposed-dtes-housing-project-uses-shipping-containers/


20 studio units and 6 two-bedroom units;
a building height 72 ft.;
a density of 4.7 FSR; and
41 bicycle parking spaces and 0 vehicle parking spaces.
Each studio unit is made of two 8′-20′ container units, with two bedroom units being made of 3 container units

[SFUVancouver]

Originally Posted by hollywoodnorth

more info here >> http://www.vancouvermarket.ca/2014/12/11/proposed-dtes-housing-project-uses-shipping-containers/


20 studio units and 6 two-bedroom units;
a building height 72 ft.;
a density of 4.7 FSR; and
41 bicycle parking spaces and 0 vehicle parking spaces.
Each studio unit is made of two 8′-20′ container units, with two bedroom units being made of 3 container units

Ah, they're using single TEU (Twenty-foot Equivalent Units) containers as opposed to the more common 40'. The numbers make a lot more sense.

[logan5]

Originally Posted by officedweller

Shipping container housing project - Hastings & Hawks:


http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/brit...mits-of-container-homes/article22175009/


http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/brit...mits-of-container-homes/article22175009/

Thanks for the link.The story talks about lower costs but doesn't give any cost comparisons with more accepted construction methods. Only Geller's best guess.

[vanciti]

Originally Posted by logan5

Thanks for the link.The story talks about lower costs but doesn't give any cost comparisons with more accepted construction methods. Only Geller's best guess.

At 219 psf to construct I can build a pretty damn nice Wood Frame Condo for that. At 241 psf I can construct a Cambie St Mid-Level Concrete condo for that...

A Surrey Woodframe condo can run you as cheap at 150 psf to as high as 185 psf. Unless they are including additional construction related numbers in that, 219psf is a pretty high number in my world.

[Spork]

Noticed a development permit sign up at Marine Way and Boundary for a 280 unit housing development. I am far too lazy to screenshot any of the documents, but you can take a gander here. It explains the new road preloading that I noticed a few weeks ago.

http://former.vancouver.ca/devapps/pc3699marine/index.htm

[vanman]

^That is the eastern edge of River District.

[osirisboy]

This would be a better location for some social housing. How many social housing units are being built here?