Canadian City Proposals

[Chadillaccc]

The revised proposal for Fort McMurray's Golden Buffalo... apparently the development permit is submitted, if I'm reading their website correctly. The old proposal had the main tower at 107 meters. Looks more in the 80 meter range now. Still substantial and remarkable for a city of Fort Macs size.



Golden Buffalo Centre - Rendering 1 by Golden Buffalo, on Flickr

http://www.goldenbuffalo.ca/

[TorontoDrew]

I still find this one to look bulky and dated. It feels very office park 1990 to me. Maybe it's just the scale of it.

[esquire]

^ Yeah, it looks a bit more squat now. Lopping 20-odd metres off the top will certainly have that effect. Still, it's quite an impressive proposal and not a bad looking project at all.

Is it still likely to go ahead given the dramatic drop in oil prices, though? It seems like something that was a result of three-digit oil price fever...

[Spring2008]

^looks like 🞵🞵🞵🞵. I think the architect did well in considering context in the design details.

[Chadillaccc]

Originally Posted by esquire

^ Yeah, it looks a bit more squat now. Lopping 20-odd metres off the top will certainly have that effect. Still, it's quite an impressive proposal and not a bad looking project at all.

Is it still likely to go ahead given the dramatic drop in oil prices, though? It seems like something that was a result of three-digit oil price fever...

It's not like oil prices are going to stay down. Projects keep starting in Calgary despite a small recession in the municipality, same with Edmonton. I doubt this will go through until recovery, but it could still happen after that. It always seemed a bit pie in the sky to me, but with the size reduction it actually seems possible. Fort Mac is typically in need of office, hotel, retail, and medical office space, and this development provides pretty much all of that. To build it now so it's online during the next boom would actually be the smartest decision in my uninformed opinion

[WhipperSnapper]

Some variation of this project has existed for the past decade. Edinburgh Condo was capped at the height of a housing shortage. Fort Mac has grown/matured but, I don't think it's at the point to attract established developers and investors. Be very surprised to see this break ground.

[trueviking]

I think it looks really cool. Different.

[dleung]

Lol

Originally Posted by prometheus

the arc de triomphe in paris; the gherkin in london; the bird's nest in beijing.........the arc in vancouver, of course!

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[someone123]

Here's a proposal for Young and Windsor in Halifax. It's outside of downtown, in a former industrial area:

Originally Posted by q12

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[Nouvellecosse]

Holy 🞵🞵🞵🞵 that actually looks really good.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by dleung

Lol

Yes that thing looks awful. My nickname for it is Elephant Cankles.

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[davidivivid]

Quebec's Parliement building will undergo a $60M expansion shortly. As underscored by the rendering, the expansion will be mostly underground and will have almost no impact on the appearance of the building. Most of the new space will serve to accomodate the 120 000 tourists who visit the Parliement each year and to enhance the overall security. Two additional conference rooms will also be built to accomodate the parliamentarians.

Feu vert à l'agrandissement de l'Assemblée nationale

Dans un souci de sécurité, le Bureau de l’Assemblée nationale a donné le feu vert jeudi au projet d’agrandissement du parlement estimé à 60,5 M$, qui transformera à jamais la composition du bâtiment conçu par Eugène-Étienne Taché.

Les travaux devraient débuter au printemps 2016 et se poursuivre pendant quatre ans. Alors qu’il avait été question au départ d’ériger un nouveau bâtiment dans la cour intérieure, la construction d’un nouveau pavillon souterrain en façade de l’Assemblée nationale a finalement été privilégiée.

Devenu vétuste, le grand escalier extérieur menant à la porte centrale du bâtiment sera complètement détruit, avant d’être reconstruit de façon quasi identique, mais en abritant sous ses marches un nouveau pavillon d’accueil.
Nouvel accès

Vitré et ultra moderne, l’endroit deviendra le nouveau point d’entrée pour les quelques 120 000 visiteurs qui pénètrent au parlement à chaque année. La boutique souvenir y sera aussi relocalisée. De là, les curieux pourront jeter un œil aux travaux qui se dérouleront dans deux nouvelles salles de commissions parlementaires, aménagées elles aussi sous terre, en façade du parlement.

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http://www.journaldequebec.com/2015/11/12/feu-vert-a-lagrandissement-de-lassemblee-nationale

[Chadillaccc]

That is awesome! Such an incredible building already.

[SkahHigh]

Viger-Bleury multi-use residential complex - 22 floors



Located right next to the CDPQ building and the Palais des Congrès. This is not announced yet, but it will have office, residential, a luxury hotel portion and a school.

[Urbmtl]

Originally Posted by SkahHigh

Viger-Bleury multi-use residential complex - 22 floors

Located right next to the CDPQ building and the Palais des Congrès. This is not announced yet, but it will have office, residential, a luxury hotel portion and a school.

[J.OT13]

Place des Peuples in front of the Canadian Museum of Civilization (or the recent, Harparized name Canadian Museum of History) in Hull, Québec. Same architect as the museum, Douglas Cardinal. NEUF contributed to the towers.

Original Proposal:


http://old.brigil.com/en/communities/97-place-des-peuples-6177-laurier.html

New kitch design with podium adopting the exact same design as the museum. Typical for one trick pony Cardinal. Don't get me wrong, the museum is an architectural masterpiece, top 10 buildings in the Ottawa region, but don't build an identical structure across the street 30 years later.

Originally Posted by rocketphish

A total redesign:










http://www.brigil.com/upload/communities/23/bannerPromoFr.pdf


http://www.brigil.com/community/23-61-laurier

[O-tacular]

Those look better than the prior proposal to me.

[Nouvellecosse]

I much prefer the original one. The second one just looks like a couple of giant hunting knives. Why would somebody want to live in a giant knife?

[Spring2008]

Mtl's a cool city.

Originally Posted by Urbmtl