[Halifax] The Maple | 72 m | 21 fl | Completed - Page 21

Jonovision · #**401** Posted **Dec 7, 2015, 4:17 PM**

They are now working on the top of the podium floor.

Ziobrop · #**402** Posted **Dec 7, 2015, 5:54 PM**

Jonovision · #**403** Posted **Dec 22, 2015, 7:21 PM**

Already a substantial presence from Lower Water st.

mleblanc · #**404** Posted **Dec 23, 2015, 5:31 AM**

Amazing to think that they are only finishing the podium floor, looking amazing so far. Haven't seen many renderings from the lower water street prospective, should be interesting

Hali87 · #**405** Posted **Jan 5, 2016, 11:49 PM**

Untitled by Hali87, on Flickr

Jonovision · #**406** Posted **Jan 6, 2016, 11:24 PM**

You can see the pool taking shape in the webcam now on the harbour side of the top podium floor.

Duff · #**407** Posted **Jan 10, 2016, 7:35 PM**

Hali87 · #**408** Posted **Jan 11, 2016, 9:13 PM**

Untitled by Hali87, on Flickr

Jonovision · #**409** Posted **Jan 21, 2016, 4:21 PM**

Keith P. · #**410** Posted **Jan 21, 2016, 4:48 PM**

Geez, this is going to look like a real city before too long!

portapetey · #**411** Posted **Jan 22, 2016, 5:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by Keith P.

Geez, this is going to look like a real city before too long!

Careful Keith, you sound dangerously close to optimistic. People will think you're drunk!

worldlyhaligonian · #**412** Posted **Jan 22, 2016, 7:04 PM**

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Originally Posted by Keith P.

Geez, this is going to look like a real city before too long!

HomeInMyShoes · #**413** Posted **Jan 22, 2016, 7:07 PM**

It's a real city. This one is certainly filling in the spaces quite well and making Halifax feel a little bigger.

RoshanMcG · #**414** Posted **Jan 22, 2016, 10:50 PM**

Are there any renderings that show the East-facing side of the building?

terrynorthend · #**415** Posted **Jan 22, 2016, 11:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by Keith P.

Geez, this is going to look like a real city before too long!

Yeah, that's a real nicely urban looking stretch now.

Jonovision · #**416** Posted **Jan 24, 2016, 3:43 PM**

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Originally Posted by terrynorthend

Yeah, that's a real nicely urban looking stretch now.

I lifted this one from Southwests website: http://southwest.ca/

It has hints of art deco from certain angles.

Keith P. · #**417** Posted **Jan 24, 2016, 5:47 PM**

Would be a really nice place to live if not for the damn container trucks crashing along Hollis and Lower Water St. at all hours of the day and night. Can't believe we have tolerated that for over 5 decades.

counterfactual · #**418** Posted **Jan 25, 2016, 2:54 AM**

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Originally Posted by Keith P.

Would be a really nice place to live if not for the damn container trucks crashing along Hollis and Lower Water St. at all hours of the day and night. Can't believe we have tolerated that for over 5 decades.

Probably won't even notice them a few stories up, though.

IanWatson · #**419** Posted **Jan 25, 2016, 12:57 PM**

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Originally Posted by Keith P.

Would be a really nice place to live if not for the damn container trucks crashing along Hollis and Lower Water St. at all hours of the day and night. Can't believe we have tolerated that for over 5 decades.

I live a few blocks further down on Hollis. After two years the trucks are really getting on my nerves. I put up with it because of the other benefits of living where I live, but my life would improve greatly if we got the container trucks out (and switched garbage trucks over to electric). I think one of the biggest things we could do to make downtown living more attractive is find a solution to the container trucks.

Drybrain · #**420** Posted **Jan 25, 2016, 2:33 PM**

Barrington is becoming more residential with the Roy, the Discovery Centre and Green Lantern projects the Ghosns want to start before the summer, the NFB building (which progresses, albeit slowly: some fencing was erected around the building entrance as of Friday). I'm starting to wonder if the sudden influx of residents that will be taking place in the next couple of years will lead to more complaints about this kind of thing. (Barrington especially is already a noisy street, choked with not only trucks but buses roaring up and down all the time.)

We haven't really been thinking of downtown as a neighbourhood, but with a thousand or more additional residents within a few blocks, I'm sure there will be pressure to make the on-street environment a little more pleasant.