Downtown Vancouver Updates - Page 859

fredinno · #**17161** Posted **Apr 15, 2019, 6:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by Changing City

No problem! It's a bit unusual, because the site is a the entire half block, from Georgia to Dunsmuir. There's a 1984 office building - 401 W Georgia - in the middle, a small plaza on West Georgia (that's losing it's 'screen' and getting a makeover) and there was another plaza on the Dunsmuir end with a single storey structure adjacent to the tower. That's being redeveloped as a 10 storey office building, that will be addressed as 402 Dunsmuir. They're pouing the 10th floor, or thereabouts, and Amazon have leased it all. That will have some retail at grade.

And all of them are connected together as one interconnected podium?

Changing City · #**17162** Posted **Apr 15, 2019, 6:20 PM**

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Originally Posted by fredinno

And all of them are connected together as one interconnected podium?

Not really. The new building isn't linked to the old one. There's a partially enclosed plaza with outdoor seating between the existing building and the new one.

mcminsen · #**17163** Posted **Apr 16, 2019, 8:44 AM**

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Originally Posted by truenorth44

Latest progress on Terrace House:

January 4, 2019, my pics:

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Originally Posted by officedweller

Terrace House
Jan 31, 2019

It will be interesting to watch this rise now over the summer.

April 15 '19, my pics

rofina · #**17164** Posted **Apr 16, 2019, 2:41 PM**

Is Terrace house the wood scraper? If so - it should be quite neat to see the form take shape.

osirisboy · #**17165** Posted **Apr 16, 2019, 4:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by rofina

Is Terrace house the wood scraper? If so - it should be quite neat to see the form take shape.

No

Changing City · #**17166** Posted **Apr 16, 2019, 4:13 PM**

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Originally Posted by rofina

Is Terrace house the wood scraper? If so - it should be quite neat to see the form take shape.

Yes, but no, but yes. It's supposedly a hybrid construction - "The building will comprise an outer frame of timber and glass top, paired with a concrete and steel core". Quite how that plays out during construction will indeed be interesting to see.

GenWhy? · #**17167** Posted **Apr 16, 2019, 4:23 PM**

Are not most timber buildings consisting of concrete cores above 6-stories though? From a constrcution and permit whatnot, so I've heard from industry, seems standard at the moment. Might have been the whole firewall issue or issue maybe around elevators instalation..

Typically what we're seeing is concrete cores with all timber construction. Similar to steel frame life what Lifetec does. Visitng a local timber manufacturer later this week so could be interesting. We're only now getting into the idea being real due to costs coming down.

Changing City · #**17168** Posted **Apr 16, 2019, 4:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by GenWhy?

Are not most timber buildings consisting of concrete cores above 6-stories though? From a constrcution and permit whatnot, so I've heard from industry, seems standard at the moment. Might have been the whole firewall issue or issue maybe around elevators instalation..

Typically what we're seeing is concrete cores with all timber construction. Similar to steel frame life what Lifetec does. Visitng a local timber manufacturer later this week so could be interesting. We're only now getting into the idea being real due to costs coming down.

I think Terrace House is hybrid because the lower seven or eight floors are concrete (and architecturally reference the Evergreen Building they are next to) and then the top ten or so floors are woodframe round a concrete core.

fredinno · #**17169** Posted **Apr 16, 2019, 5:43 PM**

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Originally Posted by Changing City

Not really. The new building isn't linked to the old one. There's a partially enclosed plaza with outdoor seating between the existing building and the new one.

Ok, thanks.

Feathered Friend · #**17170** Posted **Apr 16, 2019, 10:03 PM**

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“Fin-Tacular” Georgia Gateway Challenges What it Means to Live in Downtown Vancouver

1698 West Georgia Street
As one invited guest “star-architect” to the Urban Design Panel recently noted, Vancouver’s Georgia Gateway is one of the best entrances to any city in the world. The uniqueness and high quality of the architecture proposed for this strip makes it a pleasure to walk, even with the traffic blowing by. At least that is what Darren tells me; honestly, I prefer to use the bus to tackle the steep grade change along Georgia Street.

Our preferred mode of travel may differ, but we both agree it would have been silly to travel by car to the Westin Bayshore, where this open house was held, due to the cost of parking alone. While The hotel is slated for redevelopment, it is still very much a premium place to stay, and the same could easily be said of this building’s future homes...

...That sustainable feature certainly deserves praise, but we question the applicant’s logic of voluntarily providing 213 stalls of car parking for only 127 homes. As only 88 stalls were required, this merely serves to increase the cost of each home by 30 -70 thousand dollars

https://cityduo.wordpress.com/2019/04/16...-it-means-to-live-in-downtown-vancouver/

officedweller · #**17171** Posted **Apr 16, 2019, 11:04 PM**

Fountains containing greywater?
Hopefully there'll be a barrier to prevent dogs from drinking from it
(i.e. a chemical soup of dirty water + cleaners and detergents, etc.)

rofina · #**17172** Posted **Apr 16, 2019, 11:17 PM**

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Originally Posted by Feathered Friend

https://cityduo.wordpress.com/2019/04/16...-it-means-to-live-in-downtown-vancouver/

This projects sales are going to be a brilliant gauge of the market.

Its not as remarkable as The Butterfly, or Kengo Kuma, or VanHouse, or any one of the other star-chitect offerings, but the price the units will aim for will surely be comparable to those based on the astronomical purchase price of land alone.

If this moves well it would seem there is some appetite left for risk in the market.

officedweller · #**17173** Posted **Apr 16, 2019, 11:50 PM**

With the rectangular/square floorplates and lots of windows, I would guess that the layout of these units would be better than any of the starchitect buildings.