Just no. Way too —-like. Also I'm not a fan of this wavy-trend in Vancouver, even on the Butterfly building. It belongs in Miami Beach, not here.
Vancouver could do with some flair and these buildings are a vast improvement design-wise over what Vancouver usually builds. The proposals coming out of Vancouver the last 2-3 years have been terrific. Both those designs are a win but one can't please everyone I suppose.
Location: Calgary - our road planners are as bad as yours Edmonton
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Bonnie Doon TOD approved.
Proposal aside, it's a gear grinder that they didn't post this picture with North up. Drives me nuts and makes it trickier for me to visualize what this is going to look like when the diagram is not oriented in the 'proper' direction.
Vancouver could do with some flair and these buildings are a vast improvement design-wise over what Vancouver usually builds. The proposals coming out of Vancouver the last 2-3 years have been terrific. Both those designs are a win but one can't please everyone I suppose.
I agree this proposal has flair. It's not a good design. There's so much pent up demand for architectural individuality that flair often gets passed off as THE design standard. It definitely shouldn't be treated that way.
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After many failed redevelopment attempts, 'breathtaking' James Avenue Pumping Station welcomes first tenants
By: Bill Redekop | Posted: 04/16/2019 7:00 PM
Alston Properties came up with a plan that included purchasing lots on either side of the pumping station to locate a four-storey and a six-storey rental apartment. The apartments will be elevated off the ground so as not to block the pump house facade or view from inside.
That provided some of the economics. Then it had to find a single tenant in need of 10,000 square feet of office space. The office space is built in the rafters, held up by the building’s steel girders.
It would be too expensive to try to subdivide the space into multiple compartments. But the site was ideal for Think.Shift and its 55 employees.
The first phase of redeveloping the pump house cost $3 million. The entire project once apartment blocks are completed will come to $22 million, Alston said.
Both the building and the equipment inside are protected as a designated heritage site. Amid the giant steel wheels, there are also cranes running along horizontal beams with hooks and chains dangling down. They were used to move the giant wheels into place and left behind in case equipment ever needed servicing. The geared wheels weigh up to eight tonnes.
Boring podium. Towers are a little more interesting. Too bad there are two. Lots of curves but I don't find the designs that fascinating that two doesn't come across as generic.
Easily Calgary's worst proposal right now, for many reasons but none more so than its abominable interaction with the river.
Elbow River - 178 meters, 165 meters, 152 meters
Yeah, that's really not a great design at all. I'll gladly take the pre-Financial Crisis design for the site, the Constellation Towers (it was just a design exercise, but they were still damn cool):
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