Downtown Vancouver Updates

[officedweller]

Sidewalk on Richards St. next to the new post office on Georgia St.
Pic by me today

[Vanville]

From the open house for 1055 Harwood. Pics by me Jan.23 2017

[Vanville]

The Jervis, my shots Jan.27

[Vanville]

Sign is up at 1345 Davie, next to The Jervis (my shot Jan.27):

[Vanville]

1772 Pendrell, my pic Jan.27:

[entheosfog]

Originally Posted by Vanville

1772 Pendrell, my pic Jan.27:

Hey, did that apartment on the right get a repaint? It looks less "third world" now!

[retro_orange]

Originally Posted by entheosfog

Hey, did that apartment on the right get a repaint? It looks less "third world" now!

That is the crummy English Bay hotel on Denman, ripe for redevelopment. Same with that ugly 80's brick condo on the corner and the Sands hotel.

[Changing City]

There's a new site notice up for 320 Granville. New owner, and new architect for the development permit. A bit more site history at https://changingcitybook.com/2017/01/30/320-granville-street/

[jollyburger]

I like the public space that seems to open that corner of Cordova and Granville.

[Prometheus]

Thanks for the update. The project-specific thread is here: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=197377

Open up the corner? Other than the alcove-looking space, the corner appears (in this rendering, at least) to be more encroached upon than ever.

Therefore, I hope this is just a very poorly-placed rendering, because the building appears to jut out onto Granville Street, excessively blocking the view of the heritage facade of the RBC Building to the south. You can even see a large portion of the current parkade still remaining to the east. The rendering also depicts the building encroaching onto the Cordova Street sidewalk. I hope a more realistic rendering will suggest a slimmer, and further set-back, building than the one depicted here, although when city-imposed height limitations force a reduction of two floors, you have to make-up the loss square footage somehow. Of course, the building will not be allowed to encroach on the existing sidewalks.

[Changing City]

Originally Posted by Prometheus

Thanks for the update. The project-specific thread is here: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=197377

Open up the corner? Other than the alcove-looking space, the corner appears (in this rendering, at least) to be more encroached upon than ever.

Ah - missed that there was a project specific thread. The City's DP page has a few more renders: http://development.vancouver.ca/320granville/documents/renderings.pdf the site notification one isn't very accurate, there isn't really any parkade remaining, and the corner is apparently opened up a bit. The design is by KPF with Chris Dikeakos.

[dleung]

Ugh. Does not belong in Vancouver. With this design... come back when curved glass is in the budget.

[jollyburger]

Originally Posted by Prometheus

Thanks for the update. The project-specific thread is here: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=197377

Open up the corner? Other than the alcove-looking space, the corner appears (in this rendering, at least) to be more encroached upon than ever.

Yeah, I guess in the renderings with the planters it just appears to be opened up but not really navigable.

[osirisboy]

Originally Posted by retro_orange

That is the crummy English Bay hotel on Denman, ripe for redevelopment. Same with that ugly 80's brick condo on the corner and the Sands hotel.

That's for sure!! However if they do tear it down only a 2 storey building could get built because of the city wanting to keep denman a "village". I guess 5 storey buildings aren't "villagey" enough

[VancouverOfTheFuture]

Originally Posted by osirisboy

That's for sure!! However if they do tear it down only a 2 storey building could get built because of the city wanting to keep denman a "village". I guess 5 storey buildings aren't "villagey" enough

and people wonder why there is a shortage of places to rent. that is so stupid. since when was Denman ever a village? is there some historic reason to keep it at 2 levels? Steveston in Richmond is a village, Denman doesn't appear to be though.

[BobLoblawsLawBlog]

Originally Posted by Changing City

There's a new site notice up for 320 Granville. New owner, and new architect for the development permit. A bit more site history at https://changingcitybook.com/2017/01/30/320-granville-street/

Could reach 170m plus, but yah know

Vancouver.

[idunno]

I'm all for curved glass too! Though I don't expect it on this office tower.

Pretty confident that the Bing Thom Burrard Place building will have curved glass though. Other than that, we don't see much of it.

[Vin]

Originally Posted by VancouverOfTheFuture

and people wonder why there is a shortage of places to rent. that is so stupid. since when was Denman ever a village? is there some historic reason to keep it at 2 levels? Steveston in Richmond is a village, Denman doesn't appear to be though.

It's not whether Denman had ever been a village, it's more like the mentality of local residents, and those in the city planning department pandering to these people who have the "village" mentality, even though they could be the minority, albeit loud. Sometimes I really wonder why they choose to live downtown.

[officedweller]

Originally Posted by officedweller

Another pic of The Smithe from Changing City Updates:


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

From the June 1st UDP Minutes.

"Upstands" would be the banding of spandrel panels below the windows.
Note the concern for sustainability by reducing glazing percentage to below 50%.

The current scheme has more horizontality. More of a gesture has also been made towards the Yaletown context by introducing more solids at the base, such as the linear strips of stone cladding. There are also 2 ft. insulated upstands around the building at the residential levels to provide better energy performance and improve sun shading. This allows for improvements in sustainability by reducing the overall glazing percentage to less than 50%.

http://vancouver.ca/files/cov/committees/minutes-urban-design-panel-20160601.pdf

[osirisboy]

Regarding glazing percentage

This confuses me! You go down to Seattle (who is also hyper obsessed with being green) and you see buildings achieving leed with full window walls that are dark and reflective. Not sure why it's different here.