Cool train, dense enough, love that new building, and the effect of that hill making it look like those cross streets end like a brick wall at farmland is fun.
Thanks for the Burnaby-Metrotown tour. It has changed a lot from when I worked there (94-95). Back then the Edmonds skyline was 1 tower in a park. Middlegate mall was still there.
That Q with the lightening bolt (Hydro Quebec symbol) is a bit scary. Not as bad as HQ's HQ building (Hydro-Quebec's Headquarters ). HQ was always seen as an apparatus of the PQ by many Anglos.
I can't say I'm terribly disappointed. More relieved then anything. It isn't jaw dropping spectacular, but I'd consider it better than any of the other 200m+ buildings under construction or recently completed so that's something. My ultimate 'first supertall" dream was for it to be a 400m office building and not ugly. But since it avoided my worst nightmare which was a balcony smothered condo only a meter or two above ST status and ugly) I'm happy.
That's Chinese monkey business. The number 4 sounds like the word for "death," so it's avoided. You won't see a condo building catering to Chinese with a 4th floor.
I would have thought that most people in Vancouver knew this.
Every single person in Vancouver already knows this. But thank you anyways.
I rather like it. Echoes of John Hancock Building in Chicago, but nicer colors.
Exactly, this looks like a half century old design. I would've expected something more modern looking. I guess I'm glad in didn't turn out to be another simple glass tower though...
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