Downtown Vancouver Updates

[BodomReaper]

Looks sharp, especially the podium. Great to see another Boffo project in downtown.

[entheosfog]

Here's a short time lapse I took of the house being unloaded from the barge onto land:
House Coming Through! by Jeremy, on Flickr

[EdinVan]

Originally Posted by officedweller

Another pic of The Smithe from Changing City Updates:


https://changingcitybook.com/2016/12/05/225-smithe-street/

The podium looks quite dramatic to me. I like it.

[truenorth44]

Originally Posted by entheosfog

Here's a short time lapse I took of the house being unloaded from the barge onto land:

Nice. I see that it's been moved closer to 1st now. I'm guessing it will stay there until it gets moved to its final next location.

[Vin]

Originally Posted by BodomReaper

Looks sharp, especially the podium. Great to see another Boffo project in downtown.

Agreed. Feels like a design from Melbourne: something different. Love it.

If only the rest of the tower can look similar.

[christmas]

I wonder if we'll ever get another building that matches the quality of this building...

[Infrequent Poster]

Originally Posted by christmas

I wonder if we'll ever get another building that matches the quality of this building...

I do respect your opinion, but I always found that building to be garish and tacky.

[Bdawe]

I think the ornament is a bit garish, but I've always thought it was a quality piece of the skyline

[mcminsen]

Originally Posted by entheosfog

Here's a short time lapse I took of the house being unloaded from the barge onto land:

I took a walk over to the Olympic Village area to see the resident beaver yesterday. I didn't see the critter but did see the house. In the first pic it's at upper centre of the image.



Dec.11 '16, my pics

[retro_orange]

I hope of better quality and execution of design than this, The Grace is just like a McMansion in skyscraper form. In person the precast concrete details aren't nice quality, the functioning window openings are tiny, and the balconies feel like an afterthought. Most glaringly though is in the zoomed pic you can see the white 'face sealed' stucco is failing around the windows, sooner or later the tarps will be on this one with an assessment. A high maintenance design.

[EdinVan]

Originally Posted by retro_orange

I hope of better quality and execution of design than this, The Grace is just like a McMansion in skyscraper form. In person the precast concrete details aren't nice quality, the functioning window openings are tiny, and the balconies feel like an afterthought. Most glaringly though is in the zoomed pic you can see the white 'face sealed' stucco is failing around the windows, sooner or later the tarps will be on this one with an assessment. A high maintenance design.

It's tacky, but it breaks up the monotony and adds variety to the area

[DesignerBunny]

I too respect your opinion, and while variety is nice, this has to be one of the worst designed buildings in downtown Vancouver IMHO. I dislike the color, the proportions, the ornamentation...it's almost as bad as Boffo's more recent Artemisia project, which looks like a funeral home and has the most ridiculous floor plans I've ever seen.

[QUOTE=christmas;7649777]I wonder if we'll ever get another building that matches the quality of this building...

[vanman]

Originally Posted by entheosfog

Here's a short time lapse I took of the house being unloaded from the barge onto land:
House Coming Through! by Jeremy, on Flickr

I walked by that house today and was wondering what was up with it. I kind of wish they would leave it where it is now. It looks great with the downtown skyline as a backdrop.

[ranvancan]

Please see my input below that I submitted about the plans for Robson's Landmark building and it's impending demise. Now please forgive me, I am new here to making remarks on this site but I have, almost religiously, been following EVERY new development or future plans for quite a while both here on this site and in person. I do live downtown and am a 52 year resident of Vancouver.....born and raised in Coquitlam.
Here is an opinion that I am hoping we all can discuss, if not for clarity anyway.
Why do you think Vancouver developers are so quick to plan or propose residential buildings of typical Vancouver blandiness to replace older existing buildings? These only add space to house more of the negative, nimby typical resistance of a 'taller' or more provocative sexy building with a few fancy lighting schemes that any modern or burgeoning city should have. My POV is that these people stay outta downtown and probably more importantly, stay outta Mount Pleasant and look at our beautiful mountains from the valley. This building could be renovated, modernized, lighted with proper floods or LEDs and just the 'old' outdated revolving restaurant be replaced with another modern twist, if you will and definitely add an observation deck for the rest of us to take advantage of the unusual high space we have there already.
Sheesh, take it down and make two lower residentials????? Backward, not forward thinking. Gotta keep this "Landmark" where it is. I've been to over 90 countries and the very first thing I do is head straight to the tallest towers and look at the city from the highest perspective. And Vancouver is QUICKLY falling further behind even 'little' cities that are adding height and girth.
Attached here are a few of hundreds of pictures I took from Mount Pleasant side and I certainly do NOT think that a few more groundbreaking tall buildings, +300m would hurt the beautiful views, they would only enhance it.......imo.
https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/...380c0f81c5a2e83cb2f1510e05c5&oe=58B0AE67
https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/1...ff5091473a0cd8f4c64d1b2856fb&oe=58B3D057
https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/...ec93b4eaaf639e92a43450f889e1&oe=58E61C97
https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/...95bf9b20faefda67981b0d42ed0e&oe=58B6EDBE

[mcminsen]

Originally Posted by mcminsen

Oct.23 '16, my pic

An update on the Ormidale on Hastings.



Dec.17 '16, my pics

[mcminsen]

Originally Posted by mcminsen

41 East Hastings Street, the old United We Can bottle depot site.



Oct.10 '16, my pics

Update...



Dec.17 '16, my pics

[SpongeG]

Is the second one condos or homeless social housing?

[BobLoblawsLawBlog]

Originally Posted by vanman

I walked by that house today and was wondering what was up with it. I kind of wish they would leave it where it is now. It looks great with the downtown skyline as a backdrop.

I don't understand. Are they leaving the house there forever or are they removing it.

[csbvan]

Originally Posted by BobLoblawsLawBlog

I don't understand. Are they leaving the house there forever or are they removing it.

It's moving to east of main where i will be refurbished and I believe become rentals.

[officedweller]

Thanks for the pics.
The back of the Ormidale Block looks great.

Pics by me Saturday of HVAC installation (replacement) at the SAP Building: