[Burnaby] Gilmore Place | 214.8m | 64fl | Phase 1 Completed - Page 21

Cypherus · #**401** Posted **Jun 20, 2018, 1:16 AM**

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Originally Posted by rofina

No - this is brutal.

Its going to be a gateway tower into Brentwood.

Tallest in BC.

Busy corner.

No excuse to have this treatment at ground level.

Let's not get ahead of ourselves. It's Brentwood, not downtown Vancouver or Manhattan. The tallest tower in BC is what will do the convincing for most people, not as to whether the podium looks good or not. Most podiums are atrocious and this one continues that lineage.

rofina · #**402** Posted **Jun 20, 2018, 11:03 PM**

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Originally Posted by Cypherus

Let's not get ahead of ourselves. It's Brentwood, not downtown Vancouver or Manhattan. The tallest tower in BC is what will do the convincing for most people, not as to whether the podium looks good or not. Most podiums are atrocious and this one continues that lineage.

Right.

But this building will stay on this corner for decades or realistically "forever."

For some perspective, Downtown Vancouver was derelict, rat infested parking lot 30 years ago.

This is a poor decision - and more detail should be applied to a gateway tower to what will be a Downtown node with 50,000 people living in it in the next decade or so.

GilmoreStation · #**403** Posted **Jun 20, 2018, 11:41 PM**

It's gonna look really nice, better than Vancouver House imo

osirisboy · #**404** Posted **Jun 20, 2018, 11:43 PM**

Better than Vancouver house?? Lol ok. And which is tower 1 that is sold out? The tall one?

giallo · #**405** Posted **Jun 21, 2018, 1:17 AM**

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Originally Posted by GilmoreStation

It's gonna look really nice, better than Vancouver House imo

Wait, what? Gilmore Place looks as generic as any other project going up in this city. The only thing it has that's different is its height.

Vancouver House and Gilmore Place aren't even in the same stratosphere architecturally.

officedweller · #**406** Posted **Jun 21, 2018, 1:23 AM**

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Originally Posted by officedweller

That corner is actually at the NE corner of the podium.

Oh wait - I was wrong - it is the NW corner at the base of the tall tower.

Hopefully, it's just a placeholder for real art.

They should have fritted balcony glass to create stripes up the corner.

Phrescata · #**407** Posted **Jun 21, 2018, 2:33 AM**

I like the dark-ish colours and the height and that’s about it.

Alex Mackinnon · #**408** Posted **Jun 21, 2018, 2:54 AM**

That sure is a big pile of mediocre.

mcminsen · #**409** Posted **Jun 21, 2018, 2:57 AM**

I resized the image.

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Originally Posted by GilmoreStation

It's gonna look really nice, better than Vancouver House imo

osirisboy · #**410** Posted **Jun 21, 2018, 3:07 AM**

I'm fine with how it looks. It's simple and cheap. Helps keep costs down. It has great density.

Spr0ckets · #**411** Posted **Jun 21, 2018, 4:56 AM**

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Originally Posted by GilmoreStation

It's gonna look really nice, better than Vancouver House imo
......

You've got to be joking with that.

I think some of the Vancouver House praise and hype can tend to get a little overblown at times, but objectively speaking these towers are not even in the same universe from an architectural aesthetics, innovativeness and creativity standpoint, as it is.

sburnaby33 · #**412** Posted **Jun 21, 2018, 1:07 PM**

Very pedestrian set of buildings. Little in the way of architectural significance. I would expect more from a landmark tower, even in he suburbs. Hope it will look better once constructed.

Klazu · #**413** Posted **Jun 21, 2018, 2:01 PM**

Yeah, it doesn't get more generic than these towers. All design elements on them have been seen a hundred times in the past 10 years. Brentwood is not really a shining example of design or architecture, but your standard vertical suburbia.

GilmoreStation · #**414** Posted **Jun 21, 2018, 3:46 PM**

What's great is that there will be one outdoor and one indoor swimming pools. T&T Supermarket is rumored to be the anchor retail tenant.

Changing City · #**415** Posted **Jun 21, 2018, 5:42 PM**

It's interesting to look back to 2014, when this was first reported here, and the current brochures. The first version had a 'potential' for Phase 1 of 485,000 sq. ft. of retail on four floors. That's now come down to 272,309 sq. ft. on three floors. [source] All phases will total 450,000 of retail - which is significant, but not huge. Phase 1 has an almost identical retail floorspace as Marine Gateway, for example.

There's no office space in Phase 1, but theoretically there's still going to be a million sq. ft. in total, with 400,000 sq. ft. in Phase 2 (20 floors of 20,000 sq. ft. potentially completing mid 2024. [source].

It's interesting to note that 'look at me' height doesn't necessarily equate to dramatic density. Phase 1, with the tallest tower, is 6.6 FSR. For a Downtown comparison, the 3 tower Yaletown Park development is 7.2FSR, (although that drops to 6.1FSR if you include the park that was built at the same time). Overall it looks as if the entire project may pencil out at 7 FSR if all the commercial gets built (2.5m of residential, 1.45m of retail and office, on a 560,000 sq. ft. site).

Edit - Vancouver House - which Gilmour Station thinks can be compared - is 7.00 FSR including all the low-rise elements between the bridge and ramps.

excel · #**416** Posted **Jun 21, 2018, 6:07 PM**

GilmoreStation just trolls on here and apparently only cares about this project. The design of this building is uninspiring and disappointing for what will be the tallest building in BC. I do appreciate the height and density however.

GilmoreStation · #**417** Posted **Jun 21, 2018, 7:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by excel

GilmoreStation just trolls on here and apparently only cares about this project. The design of this building is uninspiring and disappointing for what will be the tallest building in BC. I do appreciate the height and density however.

beauty is in the eye of the beholder... Gilmore Place will be 700ft+ with a Sky Lounge on the 35th floor

WarrenC12 · #**418** Posted **Jun 21, 2018, 8:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by excel

GilmoreStation just trolls on here and apparently only cares about this project. The design of this building is uninspiring and disappointing for what will be the tallest building in BC. I do appreciate the height and density however.

You're coming into a thread on a specific project and complaining that people like that specific project?

Can't deny the height, which gives a lot of SSPers a 🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵.

Vin · #**419** Posted **Jun 21, 2018, 8:27 PM**

OK and acceptable design, but they are TALL! These will widen the Brentwood skyline even more, especially from HWY 1, and it will be a sight to behold in the near future.

rofina · #**420** Posted **Jun 21, 2018, 9:33 PM**

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Originally Posted by GilmoreStation

beauty is in the eye of the beholder... Gilmore Place will be 700ft+ with a Sky Lounge on the 35th floor

Damn that looks tall!

The nice thing about this tower is that the views are likely to be protected for long time.

Brentwood town plan ends at Gilmore, so I wouldn't expect a high rise to pop up and block the views from upper floors.