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WarrenC12 is absolutely correct on this.
Oh, you.
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I know. I lived in the West End for years. My "it's about time" comment was more about replacing a lot of those three story apartments that are woefully underusing space that could go for higher densities in a city plagued with land and pricing issues...
While it is hard to find any love for those bland walk-ups, it is a bit troubling to see affordable rental housing slowly disappearing from the West End. It just leads to more sprawl as service workers downtown just get pushed further and further out. I can't imagine anything in the new tower being considered remotely affordable.
While it is hard to find any love for those bland walk-ups, it is a bit troubling to see affordable rental housing slowly disappearing from the West End. It just leads to more sprawl as service workers downtown just get pushed further and further out. I can't imagine anything in the new tower being considered remotely affordable.
Actually, 25% of all new construction in this precinct is required to be social housing, including this new tower.
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Any idea of the rough FSR for this tower? It's a small site, comparatively speaking.
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Actually, 25% of all new construction in this precinct is required to be social housing, including this new tower.
Had not heard that before. I thought only Oppenheimer had such stipulations.
Affordable micro suites look like they are going to be a popular product with developers, so there should be lots of new cheaper housing coming to downtown. Maybe micro suites will be included in this tower. The city includes micro suites in their definition of social housing now so maybe thats where the 25% figure comes about.
Came across this by accident on the World Architecture Festival website and whoa! very impressive. is that height achievable there? architects are IBI, Nick Milkovich and Chris Doray.
Very pretty.
I enjoy the pixel cloud ceiling pool. That feature might need some extra attention to execute well. If it's outdoor it might be a pain to clean, but they could offset that with hanging gardens.
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I counted a bit over 60 floors. Daym!
The red silhouette people are all 7' tall, I think we all know this is a tower for Martians and not Vancouverites
Yes!! That metallic woven piece on top requires a close-up examination, IMO, as well as the building, of course.
...err, ... and tweak wherever necessary*
Came across this by accident on the World Architecture Festival website and whoa! very impressive. is that height achievable there? architects are IBI, Nick Milkovich and Chris Doray.
It's shortlisted (along with Vancouver House) for best future residential project.
more images on their submission page:
Looks like a well designed building. It's good that the west end will have some renewed housing, especially one that meets modern building codes at an affordable price
That looks very nice! I'd be happy if this was approved and went ahead as shown.
If you're talking about the above aerial "map picture" from klazu, I think that, over time, it would very largely resemble that.
*BTW ... has anyone posted this older link about it yet?
Just more of the same info, but with some rather good renders to look at:
I dropped by the open house last night. Nothing too exciting to report. The usual west-end mix of non-market rentals and market units - I think around 150 non-market in the lower floors of the tower, and 350 market units in the upper floors, though those numbers could be a bit off. Height is at the max 550 feet (excluding rooftop appurtenances, which are significant on this tower, so I think it could end up being somewhat taller). I believe all the renders that were on display have been posted here already.
People seemed most interested in the physical model, which showed this tower and the other recent proposals, and had placeholder towers for all the other high-building sites around this one and elsewhere in downtown (e.g. Georgia and Burrard, Alberni, etc.). The Georgia/Burrard one was interesting - the shape was a bit similar to Shangri-La, with an angled side sliced off by the view cone facing the intersection.
The tower looks very close to the washington court apartment building on the corner
If you look at the third to last page, they'll be applying a 'living wall' to the east facing blank walls of Washington Court, thereby incorporating the building into the podium area, very well thought out IMO. Also love look and functionality of the 'clean energy nest' with the solar panels!!
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