Downtown Vancouver Updates - Page 847

city guy · #**16921** Posted **Feb 12, 2019, 4:31 AM**

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Originally Posted by Changing City

Here's the next residential tower rezoning proposal - this one for 1290 Hornby (across from Tate, and Salt). More on the Changing City blog, and the City's website.

my gosh, that's hideous...someone give the architect some Ritalin

Metro-One · #**16922** Posted **Feb 12, 2019, 5:30 AM**

That must be the ugliest proposal I have seen in Vancouver in a while...

1998 wants their tower back...

SpongeG · #**16923** Posted **Feb 12, 2019, 6:30 AM**

its going to house an art gallery in the podium

It is quite ugly though

SpongeG · #**16924** Posted **Feb 12, 2019, 6:33 AM**

whatever happened to the proposal for davie & burrard?

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/1157-burrard-street-vancouver-davie-village-community-garden

officedweller · #**16925** Posted **Feb 12, 2019, 7:12 AM**

That 1290 Hornby building is also by Merrick.

The one proposed for Delta (see suburban thread) looks so much better.

From the design rationale - oh my, the short tower will overshadow the bigger tower's podium.

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Arrange the resultant massing within a 5 storey podium topped by a tall slender tower rising to a
maximum height above grade of 35 floors/approximately 350 feet. (The applicant’s original
objective was 40 floors or an equivalent of 375 feet; current proposed height has been reduced
in consideration of adjacencies and overshadowing on Burrard Place).

https://rezoning.vancouver.ca/applications/1290hornby/documents/LetterofIntent-Updated.pdf

officedweller · #**16926** Posted **Feb 13, 2019, 12:36 AM**

1290 Hornby

Pics from the Rezoning Application:

https://rezoning.vancouver.ca/applications/1290hornby/documents/ViewShadowStudy.pdf

https://rezoning.vancouver.ca/applications/1290hornby/documents/ViewShadowStudy.pdf

2 Level Art Gallery looks nice (probably eats up space from condo amenities though)
Sidewalk to the art gallery across alley at the Tate.

https://rezoning.vancouver.ca/applications/1290hornby/documents/AmenitySpace.pdf

osirisboy · #**16927** Posted **Feb 13, 2019, 4:11 AM**

So sure it's busy but I think it could look good if the glazing is done well.

officedweller · #**16928** Posted **Feb 19, 2019, 5:32 AM**

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Originally Posted by Changing City

There's an interesting proposal for the Arts and Crafts Building on Seymour Street. There's an application to convert it from office to a 36 room hotel.

More info at the Hive:

Sonder planning to open new boutique hotel in downtown Vancouver
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/576-seymour-street-vancouver-sonder-hotel

dleung · #**16929** Posted **Feb 19, 2019, 5:55 AM**

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kill it with fire

giallo · #**16930** Posted **Feb 19, 2019, 9:47 AM**

Oh my. That Hornby tower is fantastically awful-looking.

connect2source · #**16931** Posted **Feb 19, 2019, 12:57 PM**

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Originally Posted by giallo

Oh my. That Hornby tower is fantastically awful-looking.

Agreed, another Merrick travesty, glazing looks similar to Tate which is pretty horrendous. Can't stand the work of this firm, wish they'd just go away.

officedweller · #**16932** Posted **Feb 19, 2019, 10:09 PM**

From the General Vancouver Updates thread:

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Originally Posted by whatnext

I put this in The Post Thread, but I'll also put it here. Looks like Wall is putting forward a 23 story office tower on the site of the Holy Rosary Cathedral rectory. If memory serves, that footprint is pretty small. It will include restoration fo the cathedral:

https://www.straight.com/news/1202636/co...ic-catholic-cathedral-downtown-vancouver

Glad to see commercial space at this location, rather than residential space.

jollyburger · #**16933** Posted **Feb 20, 2019, 12:57 AM**

Endall Elliot is the architect (part of Stantec now) which also did the Wall Centre/Ryerson Church redevelopment.

https://vancouver.ca/files/cov/vher20190225ag.pdf

Past work:

Hotel Georgia tower
YMCA/Patina
Hudson on Granville
Metropolis
Coquitlam Centre expansion
Metrotower 2
Delta Vancouver Hotel

officedweller · #**16934** Posted **Feb 20, 2019, 1:15 AM**

I doubt they'd want anything to compete visually with the cathedral.
Hopefully something along the lines of the Marine Building - MNP Tower relationship.
As a commercial building, I expect it to be sleek looking to form a backdrop, although there aren't any "long" views of the cathedral like the Maine Building has down Hastings St.

Changing City · #**16935** Posted **Feb 20, 2019, 1:58 AM**

Here's a totally unexpected proposal. Bonnis have submitted a Perkins+Will designed 4-storey building for the 900 block of Granville. They only developed the site in 2006 and 2012 with 2 and 3-storey buildings (below). Now they're proposing to replace those with three floors of retail and office above that. Presumably they have tenants in mind for the upper floor retail - it wouldn't seem logical propose something this ambitious otherwise. Quite the contrast to their recent Robson building that has less retail than today. Only an elevation - no render yet, on the Changing City blog.

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whatnext · #**16936** Posted **Feb 20, 2019, 3:25 AM**

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Originally Posted by officedweller

From the General Vancouver Updates thread:

Glad to see commercial space at this location, rather than residential space.

Thanks. It looks like it will take the place of Holy Rosary's ugly red brick parish hall but also the rectory, which is a much better building and integrated with the cathedral. I guess the priests will just have to live in nearby condos! Photo shows the rectory, with the cathedral on the left and the edge of the parish hall on the right.

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cva-99-4671-new-unidentified-rectory-1934-oct-stuart-thomson-photo by whatnextyvr, on Flickr[/IMG]
Image courtesy: https://vanasitwas.wordpress.com/2015/07/11/rectory-holy-rosary/

retro_orange · #**16937** Posted **Feb 20, 2019, 3:48 AM**

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Originally Posted by Changing City

Here's a totally unexpected proposal. Bonnis have submitted a Perkins+Will designed 4-storey building for the 900 block of Granville. They only developed the site in 2006 and 2012 with 2 and 3-storey buildings (below). Now they're proposing to replace those with three floors of retail and office above that. Presumably they have tenants in mind for the upper floor retail - it wouldn't seem logical propose something this ambitious otherwise. Quite the contrast to their recent Robson building that has less retail than today. Only an elevation - no render yet, on the Changing City blog.

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Strange. So it will go all the way from the corner of Granville and Nelson and abut the Siesta Rooms? That's a large floorplate so it makes sense even though it's not very tall. I wonder if they will integrate the newer building at 950 and just expand on the structure or completely demolish it.

Changing City · #**16938** Posted **Feb 20, 2019, 5:47 AM**

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Originally Posted by retro_orange

Strange. So it will go all the way from the corner of Granville and Nelson and abut the Siesta Rooms? That's a large floorplate so it makes sense even though it's not very tall. I wonder if they will integrate the newer building at 950 and just expand on the structure or completely demolish it.

It doesn't go to the corner - it's 175' mid-block. There's another newer development on the southern corner that replaced Kripps pharmacy - that's not a Bonnis property and stays. It looks like all the three recent buildings get demolished, because there's three floors of underground parking.

officedweller · #**16939** Posted **Feb 20, 2019, 9:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by Changing City

Here's a totally unexpected proposal. Bonnis have submitted a Perkins+Will designed 4-storey building for the 900 block of Granville. They only developed the site in 2006 and 2012 with 2 and 3-storey buildings (below). Now they're proposing to replace those with three floors of retail and office above that. Presumably they have tenants in mind for the upper floor retail - it wouldn't seem logical propose something this ambitious otherwise. Quite the contrast to their recent Robson building that has less retail than today. Only an elevation - no render yet, on the Changing City blog.

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I posted on the retail thread, too.
I suspect the site would include the adjacent Ardene / Aldo building too, as the length of frontage of just the 2 buildings isn't wide enough for 4 retail units (2 bays each) plus 2 entrances for upper level stores as shown on the elevation.
(i.e. 10 bays = 3 + 3 + 4 on the existing buildings)

For height, the building might be 1 office level taller than the Winners / Best Buy Building if ceiling heights are similarly tall, so a sizeable project.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/950+Gr...4cfc5dbd!8m2!3d49.2795812!4d-123.1220135

officedweller · #**16940** Posted **Feb 22, 2019, 9:37 AM**

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Originally Posted by whatnext

Thanks. It looks like it will take the place of Holy Rosary's ugly red brick parish hall but also the rectory, which is a much better building and integrated with the cathedral. I guess the priests will just have to live in nearby condos! Photo shows the rectory, with the cathedral on the left and the edge of the parish hall on the right.

The old Oberti & Oberti design angled the tower façade to preserve the rectory's stone façade.
We'll have to wait and see what's currently planned, but the current proposal sounds like it has a larger floorplate.
http://obertiarchitecture.com/portfolio/holy-rosary-cathedral-tower/