[Halifax] Nova Centre | 65-58-58 m | 16-15-14 fl | Completed

[OldDartmouthMark]

Great shots, Jonovision!

I have to say from standing on Argyle St. looking up earlier this week... what a monster! Your 3rd shot illustrates this quite well - it just towers over everything else in the immediate area. Without cladding, glass and lights it actually has a foreboding appearance at the moment.

Will be interesting to see how it all comes together and works with its surrounding once it's done.

[Ziobrop]

Originally Posted by stevencourchene

so can anyone tell me/us how Meany floors to go until complete?

a few more.. its 16,15,14 iirc.they are on 13.

[someone123]

View from the Citadel:


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[Ziobrop]

Hotel Side Crane (#2) is due to be removed this weekend. They are setting up for the 14th floor now, leaving only the roof after this.

[Jonovision]

Originally Posted by Ziobrop

Hotel Side Crane (#2) is due to be removed this weekend. They are setting up for the 14th floor now, leaving only the roof after this.

Will they be using the other crane to build the rest of this one? From what I can tell in the renderings it still has another 4 floors to go?

[kph06]

Looking at the webcam it looks like more tower sections have arrived for the Sackville Street crane.

[counterfactual]

Originally Posted by someone123

View from the Citadel:


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It was in the spring, this year of Grace,
With new life pushing through,
That I looked from the Citadel down to the Narrows,
And asked what it's coming to.
I saw Upper Canadian concrete,
And glass right down to the waterline;
I have heard an old song down on Fisherman's Wharf -
Can I sing it just one time?

Can I sing it just one time?

Can I sing it just one time?

[fenwick16]

Originally Posted by someone123

View from the Citadel:


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Gosh darn it! The Save the View group had me believing that it would have a much bigger impact on the skyline. Still not bad though, and there are still a few more storeys to go

[OldDartmouthMark]

Originally Posted by fenwick16

Gosh darn it! The Save the View group had me believing that it would have a much bigger impact on the skyline. Still not bad though, and there are still a few more storeys to go

A few more storeys won't take any more of the view away from the public on the Citadel, but it will give the privileged few who get to be on those floors an exclusive view of the harbour from above.

[OldDartmouthMark]

Originally Posted by counterfactual

It was in the spring, this year of Grace,
With new life pushing through,
That I looked from the Citadel down to the Narrows,
And asked what it's coming to.
I saw Upper Canadian concrete,
And glass right down to the waterline;
I have heard an old song down on Fisherman's Wharf -
Can I sing it just one time?

Can I sing it just one time?

Can I sing it just one time?

I've never heard that one. What is the reference?

[portapetey]

Originally Posted by fenwick16

Gosh darn it! The Save the View group had me believing that it would have a much bigger impact on the skyline. Still not bad though, and there are still a few more storeys to go

What ever do you mean?



I'd say they nailed it.

Of course, we're still waiting for the destruction of the remainder of our heritage, as they've predicted:

[kph06]

The tallest crane was dropped by at least one section this morning.

[kwajo]

Originally Posted by OldDartmouthMark

I've never heard that one. What is the reference?

It's Fisherman's Wharf by Stan Rogers

[OldDartmouthMark]

Originally Posted by kwajo

It's Fisherman's Wharf by Stan Rogers

Thanks!

[Keith P.]

Finally starting to look like a real city.

[OldDartmouthMark]

Originally Posted by Keith P.

Finally starting to look like a real city.

What about Halifax makes you believe it's not a real city?

[Drybrain]

Originally Posted by Keith P.

Finally starting to look like a real city.

It's funny; I was thinking of the "tall=big city" equivalency during the past few weeks, when I was on vacation.

I spent a week in Amsterdam, and it's easily at least as much of a "real city" as any place in North America, but its city centre has virtually no tall buildings whatsoever. Almost all the skyscrapers are sequestered in far-flung corners of the city, and even there, there aren't very many.

Urbanity is more about what the streets look like at eye level than what the skyline looks like from a distance.

[terrynorthend]

Originally Posted by fenwick16

Gosh darn it! The Save the View group had me believing that it would have a much bigger impact on the skyline. Still not bad though, and there are still a few more storeys to go

Yes, not bad at all, and it does a great job of obscuring the view of that awlul (ex)refinery.

[Waye Mason]

EDIT - delete double post

[Waye Mason]

Notes from the meeting yesterday with area merchants and DHBC.

• 2-3 weeks for steel work to be done, big crane leaves the street
• main line and municipal services go in Nov/Dec with partial closures and stop and go starting on Prince, up to Market, down Sackville.
• Market closed tomorrowish to Sunday or Monday to remove one of the hotel side cranes
• weather tight (temporary tarps, not glass) before December
• Blue box (convention room) glass in before xmas
• Some glass goes in elsewhere before xmas but rest after worst winter weather over.

Argyle 2 blocks and Grafton Prince to Carmichael should all be streetscaped in late summer next year.