320 Granville St |115m | 32Fl | Completed - Page 14

domusile · #**261** Posted **Aug 31, 2017, 9:51 PM**

More photos of this project on the Bosa website:

http://thinkbosa.com/project/bosa-waterfront-centre/

sorry I forget how to post photos...hopefully somebody can post these

GlassCity · #**262** Posted **Aug 31, 2017, 10:04 PM**

I know how to post pictures, not how to make them smaller though. We'll all get this step by step haha

http://thinkbosa.com/project/bosa-waterfront-centre/

SFUVancouver · #**263** Posted **Aug 31, 2017, 11:19 PM**

Great renderings! I really quite appreciate that they show the project in a variety of weather conditions; the snow one is my favourite by far.

Pinion · #**264** Posted **Sep 1, 2017, 12:19 AM**

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Originally Posted by GlassCity

I know how to post pictures, not how to make them smaller though. We'll all get this step by step haha

Upload to imgur.com and use their resizing option in the top right. ~900 pixels wide is nice for everyone with 1080p, or 1600 pixels if you wanna make them more appropriate for 4K monitors.

GlassCity · #**265** Posted **Sep 1, 2017, 12:23 AM**

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Originally Posted by Pinion

Upload to imgur.com and use their resizing option in the top right. ~900 pixels wide is nice for everyone with 1080p, or 1600 pixels if you wanna make them more appropriate for 4K monitors.

Uploading photos I find online to a third website to then post to this one sounds like far too much work to be worth it

But thank you!

mcminsen · #**266** Posted **Sep 1, 2017, 12:58 AM**

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Originally Posted by domusile

More photos of this project on the Bosa website:

http://thinkbosa.com/project/bosa-waterfront-centre/

sorry I forget how to post photos...hopefully somebody can post these

Here we go. BTW, I use Imageshack and I pay about $3/month for unlimited storage and uploads.

source: http://thinkbosa.com/project/bosa-waterfront-centre/

Prometheus · #**267** Posted **Sep 1, 2017, 3:46 AM**

The Cordova frontage is extremely disappointing. With the exception of the parkade that this building is supposed to replace, this corner is a super-urban, super-dynamic, downtown hub. It's in the heart of the tourist/hospitality/cruiseship district; it's the gateway to Gastown; it's in the heart of the city's historic central business district; and it sits directly across from the region's central transit hub (and future mega-hub, if city council doesn't get in the way).

Even if it were to match the current urban energy and spirit of this area (to say nothing of its potential future energy and spirit), the Cordova frontage should be on orders of magnitude more urban, robust and publically exciting and useful and entertaining than what this proposal is offering. Currently, it appears to be offering nothing more than a space for a modest cafe/cafeteria and retail unit (or daycare?), all hidden behind an impenetrable hedge and bike rack. The form and scale of use (as well as permeability) being proposed along the Cordova frontage is consistent with some semi-commercial suburban street, not the heart of the transit/business/hospitality super-district of a major (and growing) world city.

city guy · #**268** Posted **Sep 1, 2017, 3:55 AM**

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Originally Posted by Prometheus

The Cordova frontage is extremely disappointing. With the exception of the parkade that this building is supposed to replace, this corner is a super-urban, super-dynamic, downtown hub. It's in the heart of the tourist/hospitality/cruiseship district; it's the gateway to Gastown; it's in the heart of the city's historic central business district; and it sits directly across from the region's central transit hub (and future mega-hub, if city council doesn't get in the way).

Even if it were to match the current urban energy and spirit of this area (to say nothing of its potential future energy and spirit), the Cordova frontage should be on orders of magnitude more urban, robust and publically exciting and useful and entertaining than what this proposal is offering. Currently there appears to be nothing more than a space for a modest cafe/cafeteria and retail unit (or daycare?), all hidden behind an impenetrable hedge and bike rack. The form and scale of use being proposed along the Cordova frontage is consistent with some semi-commercial suburban street, not the heart of the transit/business/hospitality district of a major (and growing) world city.

you are dead-on with these comments...such a strategic corner to propose such a low space and kind of tacky vocabulary of forms

giallo · #**269** Posted **Sep 1, 2017, 4:15 AM**

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Originally Posted by Prometheus

The Cordova frontage is extremely disappointing. With the exception of the parkade that this building is supposed to replace, this corner is a super-urban, super-dynamic, downtown hub. It's in the heart of the tourist/hospitality/cruiseship district; it's the gateway to Gastown; it's in the heart of the city's historic central business district; and it sits directly across from the region's central transit hub (and future mega-hub, if city council doesn't get in the way).

Even if it were to match the current urban energy and spirit of this area (to say nothing of its potential future energy and spirit), the Cordova frontage should be on orders of magnitude more urban, robust and publically exciting and useful and entertaining than what this proposal is offering. Currently, it appears to be offering nothing more than a space for a modest cafe/cafeteria and retail unit (or daycare?), all hidden behind an impenetrable hedge and bike rack. The form and scale of use (as well as permeability) being proposed along the Cordova frontage is consistent with some semi-commercial suburban street, not the heart of the transit/business/hospitality super-district of a major (and growing) world city.

Very good commentary on the base of this tower. It shouldn't be cut off from the sidewalk, that's for sure.

jollyburger · #**270** Posted **Sep 1, 2017, 4:30 AM**

Do you guys work for the Downtown BIA or something? The area is not in any way super-dynamic.

Sinclair Centre will probably never have anything street level which basically kills their entire block up Granville and up Howe. The other side has the parkade (even if they build a Granville Street extension) which is another dead zone. Anyone going up Granville will probably just walk up the stairs and use the overpass walkway.

Even if they redevelop around Waterfront Station it will probably make the area even more irrelevant with tourists circling past the waterfront to access transportation/cruises ships/Gastown.

trofirhen · #**271** Posted **Sep 1, 2017, 4:52 AM**

I was in Auckland last Christmas and was surprised at how much "zip" and life there seemed to be at their waterfront. Maybe it's because Vancouver is diffused with Granville
Island being there; I don't know, but here, the city just seems afraid of going "all out" on just about everything, let alone building height. It's a tragedy, but everything here - with a couple of exceptions - seems satisfied at being a "C+", and little more. Vancouver has so much potential, but we're squandering it on pleasant, adequate, but unspectacular project environments.

giallo · #**272** Posted **Sep 1, 2017, 5:47 AM**

I wouldn't call downtown Vancouver's waterfront unspectacular or lacking life. The waterfront may not have a lot of retail or restaurants, but it's completely inclusive, and one of Vancouver's biggest strengths. To be honest, I like the fact that most of it is public parkland.

Vin · #**273** Posted **Sep 1, 2017, 7:18 PM**

The Cordova frontage looks like a 50-60s American diner. I can imagine Marilyn Monroe and James Dean in there with their burgers and milk shakes.

Love the design, it's intimate.

However I want the tower to be doubled the height to make a good punch in the sky.

Jebby · #**274** Posted **Sep 1, 2017, 8:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by Vin

The Cordova frontage looks like a 50-60s American diner.

I thought that too. I like it, to be honest.

LeftCoaster · #**275** Posted **Sep 1, 2017, 9:06 PM**

So do I.

I do agree it could be a bit more grand, but the risk also is overshadowing one of the best heritage buildings we have in the city so I'm ok with this one being a bit understated.

officedweller · #**276** Posted **Sep 1, 2017, 10:34 PM**

I think the café/restaurant space looks claustrophobic and closed-in.

The rooftop form is just a screen either trying to vertically heighten the ground floor unit
or trying to hide the fact there's nothing up there.
It would improve it substantially if the restaurant space were 2 floors or had a rooftop patio
(the patio is at grade behind the screen, unless it's been revised since the rezoning).

Then again, I suppose the screening looks better than Glowbal's plastic tent at Telus Garden.

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Originally Posted by mcminsen

Here we go. BTW, I use Imageshack and I pay about $3/month for unlimited storage and uploads.

source: http://thinkbosa.com/project/bosa-waterfront-centre/

From Google StreetView, here's what's next door:

https://www.google.ca/maps/place/sey...hFAsUQxB0IKzAA

christmas · #**277** Posted **Sep 1, 2017, 10:59 PM**

I like it. It reminds me of some Melbourne projects.

VancouverOfTheFuture · #**278** Posted **Sep 1, 2017, 11:03 PM**

i like it. think it looks nice

Vin · #**279** Posted **Sep 2, 2017, 1:59 AM**

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Originally Posted by christmas

I like it. It reminds me of some Melbourne projects.

Too short to look like a Melbourne tower though.

EdinVan · #**280** Posted **Sep 5, 2017, 10:22 AM**

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Originally Posted by Vin

The Cordova frontage looks like a 50-60s American diner. I can imagine Marilyn Monroe and James Dean in there with their burgers and milk shakes.

Love the design, it's intimate.

However I want the tower to be doubled the height to make a good punch in the sky.

Looks quite elegant