Downtown Vancouver Updates

[Jebby]

Originally Posted by Vin

Yeah I call that regressive architecture. Why blend in with West End when we can achieve better designs?

I think it looks great for an infill building, especially considering its surroundings.

[osirisboy]

I don't like how it's set back so far. Very suburban feel to how it interacts with the street

[officedweller]

On Thurlow, I think there's a roadway widening setback.

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400 Dunsmuir

Pic by me today:

[Vin]

Originally Posted by Jebby

I think it looks great for an infill building, especially considering its surroundings.

For such a simple design, they better make real affordable market homes or just plain rental. Charging an arm and a leg will simply be nonsensical, or even downright immoral.

[officedweller]

The Thurlow

Here are the elevations from the rezoning application dated September 2017.
Minimal windows, it seems.


https://rezoning.vancouver.ca/applic...rlow/index.htm


https://rezoning.vancouver.ca/applic...rlow/index.htm


https://rezoning.vancouver.ca/applic...rlow/index.htm

I think it'll be where I've marked in orange:


https://rezoning.vancouver.ca/applic...rlow/index.htm

[osirisboy]

Originally Posted by Vin

For such a simple design, they better make real affordable market homes or just plain rental. Charging an arm and a leg will simply be nonsensical, or even downright immoral.

Yup. 1 bed starts at a million. 3 bed starts at 2.7 million

[Vin]

Originally Posted by osirisboy

Yup. 1 bed starts at a million. 3 bed starts at 2.7 million

Well, let's see how many units they can sell with that kind of ridiculous pricing. But with today's DCC or DCL, it's perhaps not so surprising too.

[LeftCoaster]

Originally Posted by Vin

Feeling the sting too I see?

Well, let's add another one to make the table-top surface wider.

Feeling the sting? This isn't my project, it's a competitor's.

Don't confuse me thinking taller buildings wont make us world class with a dislike or disinterest in tall buildings.

I like tall buildings, I just understand 10 extra meters on a tower is not going to magically make Vancouver a more worldly city.

[LeftCoaster]

Originally Posted by officedweller

The Thurlow

Here are the elevations from the rezoning application dated September 2017.
Minimal windows, it seems.

I guess I'm in the minority but I like this one. It has a very modern take on a west end design. The bands of what I presume will be metal panels will help make this building look taller and slimmer and have a bit of an art deco feel to them.

[officedweller]

I figured the strips would be concrete.

[LeftCoaster]

Could be, either way a sharp white band will look good IMO.

[retro_orange]

Originally Posted by LeftCoaster

I guess I'm in the minority but I like this one. It has a very modern take on a west end design. The bands of what I presume will be metal panels will help make this building look taller and slimmer and have a bit of an art deco feel to them.

I agree too, I think it's a nice minimalist building that will age nicely and doesn't have a bunch of obtuse proportions or huge spans of grey glass panels covering concrete. I dunno who would now be buying at the prices they are asking though.

[officedweller]

I would like the banding / strips better if it were more symmetrical with wider windows.

[fredinno]

Originally Posted by officedweller

Those 2 small buildings on Seymour between Robson & Smithe are for sale:


http://www.collierscanada.com/26832?...2#.XIB90uTsaUl

I think they should land assemble with whoever owns the nearby parking lot for office space...

Originally Posted by Vin

Those museums located at Vanier Park would've been the perfect locations if downtown were allowed to grow organically out of the peninsula instead of having all the growth restrictions over the past 40 years or so. I think the people who first placed them there were visionary folks who thought well into the future. Subsequent generations failed them IMO.

With the move of the MM, Vanier Park is going to be deader than dead.

With that said, the move would be a plus for the dead quiet Coal Harbour neighbourhood year round.

The Vanier Park location is too small, which is the problem, not its location.

Originally Posted by Changing City

As it's an 'opinion piece' by the Director of the museum, I would read this as a lobbying attempt. Even if Concord, who bought the Bayshore, have had discussions with City staff about a redevelopment and incorporated relocated Maritime Museum, it would be a rezoning, so ultimately up to Council to decide. With the current makeup and voting behavior of Council, I wouldn't assume that was a done deal - especially as it will no doubt have luxury residential, almost certainly condos, to pay for the museum. Potential loss of hotel space could play into a decision as well, if anyone on Council is worried about that, and if that's what Concord are thinking. Unlike some other developers in the city, I can't think of any hotel properties owned by Concord.

Hey, there's a first for everyone- and Concord has gone (not that successfully) into recreational RE before. The site has already proven itself to be a great hotel space.

Originally Posted by officedweller

The Thurlow

Here are the elevations from the rezoning application dated September 2017.
Minimal windows, it seems.


https://rezoning.vancouver.ca/applic...rlow/index.htm


https://rezoning.vancouver.ca/applic...rlow/index.htm


https://rezoning.vancouver.ca/applic...rlow/index.htm

I think it'll be where I've marked in orange:


https://rezoning.vancouver.ca/applic...rlow/index.htm

Shadowing Davie? Is that the part the city is worried about?

[fredinno]

Originally Posted by Changing City

What a waste of space that article is. It repeats a lot old material from a decade ago and slips into the middle that the plans are not currently being revisited. The problem of building over tracks with potentially dangerous cargoes hasn't been solved, and the Port would have to be involved - and there's no sign that they're interested at the moment. It means the city has a long-term land bank for expansion - but it's irrelevant for now.

It brings awareness to the potential of the site and it's an interesting bit of planning and history usually not exposed to the general public, who doesn't read COV planning reports.

There are worse 'slow news day' articles.

[officedweller]

Originally Posted by fredinno

Shadowing Davie? Is that the part the city is worried about?

Yes, that's why the top is stepped like that.

[SpongeG]

Slender 35-storey tower with “distinctive crown” slated for Hornby and Drake
MARCH 16, 2019 BY PETER MEISZNER


Tower looking west. Tate on Howe in foreground.

An open house was held Thursday for a 35-storey tower at the corner of Hornby and Drake on the current site of the Three Bridges Community Health Clinic.

The new tower, designed by Merrick Architecture, will include 159 condominiums, as well as 10,531 sq ft. of cultural amenity space on the ground floor. The space is envisioned as an art gallery.

urbanYVR first reported on this tower in September 2018 at the pre-application open house. Now, there are more details available on the development.

Unit breakdown will be as follows:

studio/one-bedroom: 100
two-bedroom: 43
three-bedroom: 16

...

https://urbanyvr.com/slender-35-stor...rnby-and-drake

[SFUVancouver]

Vancouvermarket.ca is reporting on a tower proposal for the former gas station at Burrard and Davie.

47-Storey Proposed for Burrard and Davie
Posted on March 18, 2019

A rezoning application has been submitted by Prima Properties for 1157 Burrard Street, a former gas station site at the Northwest corner of Burrard and Davie Streets that has been used as a community garden for several years.

The 21,605 SF site was designated for rezoning in 2014 under the West End Community Plan. It is currently zoned DD (Downtown District) and C-5 (Commercial).

The plan for the site is a 47-storey mixed-use tower that includes:

• 236 condo units;
• 50 hotel units or 50 more residential units;
• 65 studios, 111 one bedrooms & 110 two-bedrooms;
• building height of 480 ft.;
• a total density of 13.99 FSR;
• 25,000 SF of commercial space, including;
• 17,000 SF of office space;
• a 37-space public childcare facility
• 265 vehicle parking stalls and 400 bicycle spaces.

[...]

http://www.vancouvermarket.ca/2019/0...ard-and-davie/

The design rationale discusses automated exterior solar shades on the west facade that will unfurl with direct sunlight to add animation and reduce solar gain. I am... skeptical those will make it into the final design. Maintenance would be a nightmare.

[retro_orange]

Originally Posted by SpongeG

Slender 35-storey tower with “distinctive crown” slated for Hornby and Drake
MARCH 16, 2019 BY PETER MEISZNER


Tower looking west. Tate on Howe in foreground.

An open house was held Thursday for a 35-storey tower at the corner of Hornby and Drake on the current site of the Three Bridges Community Health Clinic.

The new tower, designed by Merrick Architecture, will include 159 condominiums, as well as 10,531 sq ft. of cultural amenity space on the ground floor. The space is envisioned as an art gallery.

urbanYVR first reported on this tower in September 2018 at the pre-application open house. Now, there are more details available on the development.

Unit breakdown will be as follows:

studio/one-bedroom: 100
two-bedroom: 43
three-bedroom: 16

...

https://urbanyvr.com/slender-35-stor...rnby-and-drake

Merrick strikes again, they must have stock in the extruded aluminum window mullion business. That shade of green isn't working for me... too similar to seafoam glass.

[officedweller]

Interesting that they actually show fritted/frosted balcony glass though.