[Halifax] Nova Centre | 65-58-58 m | 16-15-14 fl | Completed - Page 230

fenwick16 · #**4581** Posted **Oct 28, 2015, 2:42 AM**

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Originally Posted by kph06

They moved one of the roof trusses today, the mobile crane took one end and the tower crane had the other. They used the cranes scond trolley to get more mechanical advantage.

Looking at Nova Scotia Webcams - http://www.novascotiawebcams.com/en/webcams/nova-centre/ - they have all the roof trusses in place now. It is good to see that they are moving along in getting the roof done; it won't be too long before the snow comes.

ILoveHalifax · #**4582** Posted **Oct 28, 2015, 7:16 AM**

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Originally Posted by Keith P.

Must be just One Guy Named Moe working there.

And Moe will be spending the winter in the sunny south? like last winter? when nothing got done because there was snow in there?

OldDartmouthMark · #**4583** Posted **Oct 28, 2015, 12:59 PM**

Don't know if everybody has seen this:

http://thechronicleherald.ca/business/1318525-taylor-nova-centre-window-installation-begins-soon

Scroll down through the BMO stuff, and they talk a little about installing windows, etc.

Hali87 · #**4584** Posted **Oct 29, 2015, 5:01 AM**

From yesterday:

20151027_140748[1] by Hali87, on Flickr

Jonovision · #**4585** Posted **Nov 3, 2015, 11:08 PM**

teddifax · #**4586** Posted **Nov 3, 2015, 11:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by Jonovision

How many floors are left?

someone123 · #**4587** Posted **Nov 4, 2015, 2:02 AM**

I was just going to post a similar shot from flickr. The Grafton Street perspective is pretty interesting; this view looks a lot more urban than it used to.

I read a while back that the brown bunker on the left might be sold and developed soon. Hopefully that will happen in the next year or two.

beyeas · #**4588** Posted **Nov 4, 2015, 1:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by someone123

I read a while back that the brown bunker on the left might be sold and developed soon. Hopefully that will happen in the next year or two.

Be prepared for a defence of this building based on it being a classic example of the Rectanglist Movement, a little known Finnish derivative of Cubism.

OldDartmouthMark · #**4589** Posted **Nov 4, 2015, 1:33 PM**

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Originally Posted by someone123

I read a while back that the brown bunker on the left might be sold and developed soon. Hopefully that will happen in the next year or two.

Thank god for that. That building is one of the worst blemishes on the downtown area. Not only does it have absolutely no attractive features whatsoever, there is no relationship between it and the street below in the least, essentially making it a dead zone to pedestrians.

It can't happen fast enough for me.

Incidentally, the link to google streetside below shows a similar view when Nova Centre was just being started...

https://www.google.ca/maps/@44.645026,-6...fgJ_bCr1tcNwg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

Ziobrop · #**4590** Posted **Nov 4, 2015, 2:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by someone123

I was just going to post a similar shot from flickr. The Grafton Street perspective is pretty interesting; this view looks a lot more urban than it used to.

I read a while back that the brown bunker on the left might be sold and developed soon. Hopefully that will happen in the next year or two.

what is that brown bunker?

Ziobrop · #**4591** Posted **Nov 4, 2015, 2:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by teddifax

How many floors are left?

on the Tower, on the prince side, Just the roof, on the sackville side, one more + roof. Hotel has a couple more.

hoser111 · #**4592** Posted **Nov 4, 2015, 3:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by Ziobrop

what is that brown bunker?

Cheque processing facility owned by the major banks.

It was rumored here http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?t=139843&page=57 that Ramia had put an offer on that building.

OldDartmouthMark · #**4593** Posted **Nov 4, 2015, 3:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by Ziobrop

what is that brown bunker?

Looks like it's home to Symcor, for the moment.

http://www.yellowpages.ca/bus/Nova-Scotia/Halifax/Symcor-Inc/3295059.html

http://www.symcor.com/en/

midasmull · #**4594** Posted **Nov 4, 2015, 3:17 PM**

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Originally Posted by hoser111

It was rumored here http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?t=139843&page=57 that Ramia had put an offer on that building.

The Lawen's actually ended up buying it around the same time that Ramia was supposedly kicking the tires on it.

Jonovision · #**4595** Posted **Nov 4, 2015, 11:12 PM**

It's like a huge ship sailing over the rooftops from this angle.

Jonovision · #**4596** Posted **Nov 4, 2015, 11:19 PM**

Jonovision · #**4597** Posted **Nov 5, 2015, 3:49 PM**

Most of the ballroom steel has now been put in place. Curtain wall should be next!

beyeas · #**4598** Posted **Nov 13, 2015, 12:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by Jonovision

Most of the ballroom steel has now been put in place. Curtain wall should be next!

Yeah I was at the chamber of commerce dinner at the WTCC last night, and got chatting with one of the trade centre folk, and they said that glass is on site and should start going in soon.

curnhalio · #**4599** Posted **Nov 13, 2015, 9:01 PM**

The top half of this can be seen driving down Gottingen. It will look fantastic upon completion.

lawsond · #**4600** Posted **Nov 13, 2015, 11:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by curnhalio

The top half of this can be seen driving down Gottingen. It will look fantastic upon completion.

I do not live there in the winter months or I would do it myself but am hoping someone can snap a pic from the Dartmouth side to show how it sits on the skyline.