Canadian City Proposals - Page 198

csbvan · #**3941** Posted **Jul 27, 2015, 6:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse

What's on the site currently?

A parkade with a few stories of office built on top of it. A weird set-up currently.

http://www.loopnet.com/Listing/16851919/1133-Melville-Street-Vancouver-BC/

Klazu · #**3942** Posted **Jul 27, 2015, 6:13 PM**

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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse

What's on the site currently?

This beauty: https://goo.gl/maps/KjMSN

Nouvellecosse · #**3943** Posted **Jul 27, 2015, 6:19 PM**

lol I think I've seen that before. The massing reminds me of something one might see along a Parisian boulevard. The actual composition on the other hand seems more Asian megacity.

Beedok · #**3944** Posted **Jul 27, 2015, 6:30 PM**

Are those apartments on the very top?

O-tacular · #**3945** Posted **Jul 27, 2015, 6:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by csbvan

A parkade with a few stories of office built on top of it. A weird set-up currently.

http://www.loopnet.com/Listing/16851919/1133-Melville-Street-Vancouver-BC/

Wow that belongs in the Ugly Canada thread.

Innsertnamehere · #**3946** Posted **Jul 27, 2015, 8:19 PM**

What is it, 5 levels of parking, 3 levels of office, and 2 levels of residential? That's ones a bit odd, by the looks of it.

csbvan · #**3947** Posted **Jul 27, 2015, 8:54 PM**

Apparently the residential is vacant at the moment. I have no idea what era of building that thing was considered a good idea, but it has been slated to come down for a while. Now we have the proposal that will do it (I believe that a hotel was proposed for the site a little while back but it never went through).

Klazu · #**3948** Posted **Jul 27, 2015, 9:31 PM**

I have to say that I have walked by several times and have never noticed the part above the parkade. It is quite unremarkable from the street, fortunately.

csbvan · #**3949** Posted **Jul 27, 2015, 9:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by Klazu

I have to say that I have walked by several times and have never noticed the part above the parkade. It is quite unremarkable from the street, fortunately.

I know! Looking at this site on Google Maps this morning was the first time that I had ever seen this building in full. I have walked by it hundreds of times and never knew that it was more than a parkade

ssiguy · #**3950** Posted **Jul 28, 2015, 2:02 AM**

Has Vancouver loosened it's strict footprint guidelines?

dleung · #**3951** Posted **Jul 28, 2015, 5:15 AM**

Ugh, looks so corporate America, featureless with random arbitrary angles on top. I always imagine a fat office building in Vancouver to look more like the Tokyo Midtown tower, with louvers and natural materials, and a fine grained façade so that its scale shows.

http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com, http://www.nbk.cn

Nouvellecosse · #**3952** Posted **Jul 28, 2015, 5:29 AM**

Can you show an example of that for those less familiar with Tokyo?

LeftCoaster · #**3953** Posted **Jul 28, 2015, 5:19 PM**

The tower looks decent for an initial rendering, I expect it to be tweaked as it goes by the UDP and planning officials. KPF is a great shop and I doubt they will put up anything too pedestrian here.

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Originally Posted by ssiguy

Has Vancouver loosened it's strict footprint guidelines?

That's not a thing.

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Originally Posted by dleung

Ugh, looks so corporate America, featureless with random arbitrary angles on top. I always imagine a fat office building in Vancouver to look more like the Tokyo Midtown tower, with louvers and natural materials, and a fine grained façade so that its scale shows.

The CoV is very into passive energy solutions right now so I would be surprised if you saw this go up without any texturing added on. Whether it gets to the level of NYT budding etc... I doubt, but I don't see those buildings aging to well either.

hipster duck · #**3954** Posted **Jul 28, 2015, 8:43 PM**

The Oxford proposal for Vancouver looks like a typical tug of war between a commercial property developer and the CoV planning department.

The commercial property developer wants a generic design with large floorplates and a utilitarian plaza, and the CoV planning department wants something with view cones and a public square component.

The building looks like it's reasonably well-planned but not terribly exciting, architecturally.

Klazu · #**3955** Posted **Jul 29, 2015, 2:40 AM**

More photos of the 1133 Melville Street proposal in Vancouver.

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Originally Posted by Klazu

All photos by Oxford Properties via Vancitybuzz.

ssiguy · #**3956** Posted **Jul 29, 2015, 3:44 AM**

That Vancouver proposal has a far bigger foot print than anything else downtown. I don't know how they will let it pass council.

LeftCoaster · #**3957** Posted **Jul 29, 2015, 10:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by ssiguy

That Vancouver proposal has a far bigger foot print than anything else downtown. I don't know how they will let it pass council.

As usual you are misinformed.

This isn't far bigger than anything else downtown, in fact it wouldn't even have the largest footprint of buildings currently under construction. Both Telus Gardens at 22,000 SF and 745 Thurlow at 20,400 SF are larger.

someone123 · #**3958** Posted **Jul 31, 2015, 5:54 AM**

Here's a new rendering of a tower for Quinpool and Robie in Halifax, near the North Common. It's unusual to see a proposal this tall there outside of the downtown area.

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Originally Posted by Duff

Updated proposal for this one. - http://www.halifax.ca/planning/applicati...7.23_ArmcoTower_DrawingPackageforHRM.pdf

Nouvellecosse · #**3959** Posted **Jul 31, 2015, 6:03 AM**

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Originally Posted by dleung

Ugh, looks so corporate America, featureless with random arbitrary angles on top. I always imagine a fat office building in Vancouver to look more like the Tokyo Midtown tower, with louvers and natural materials, and a fine grained façade so that its scale shows.

http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com, http://www.nbk.cn

I think that would actually look more ineresting.

ssiguy · #**3960** Posted **Jul 31, 2015, 6:10 AM**

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Originally Posted by LeftCoaster

As usual you are misinformed.

This isn't far bigger than anything else downtown, in fact it wouldn't even have the largest footprint of buildings currently under construction. Both Telus Gardens at 22,000 SF and 745 Thurlow at 20,400 SF are larger.

You didn't have to bit my head off.

It just looked much bigger than other buildings, perhaps it's just the angle. Any how the building is OK.......nothing you would really look at, good or bad.