Downtown Vancouver Updates

[SFUVancouver]

Originally Posted by rofina

Wait - are these just for advertising?

That's brutal, if so.

Part of their street furniture contract with the City, I suspect.

[rofina]

Originally Posted by SFUVancouver

Part of their street furniture contract with the City, I suspect.

That's grim. Not a fan at all.

[jollyburger]

Originally Posted by rofina

Wait - are these just for advertising?

That's brutal, if so.

Please explain.

[whatnext]

Originally Posted by rofina

Wait - are these just for advertising?

That's brutal, if so.

Yep, why is is small businesses get harassed for having sandwich boards out, yet these advertising monoliths can just be plopped down anywhere?

[jollyburger]

Originally Posted by whatnext

Yep, why is is small businesses get harassed for having sandwich boards out, yet these advertising monoliths can just be plopped down anywhere?

Cause they pay for all the bus shelters and street furniture that get plopped down everywhere. Along with revenue share to the City.

https://vancouver.ca/files/cov/2016-229-release.pdf

[SpongeG]

Originally Posted by rofina

Wait - are these just for advertising?

That's brutal, if so.

love them

anyway

As for the advertising content, 10 per cent is allocated to the city for community use, although after observing both of the digital signs for several minutes, ads displayed were all for private enterprise, including McDonald’s, London Drugs and Manulife.

https://urbanyvr.com/digital-signs-downtown-vancouver

[officedweller]

Originally Posted by rofina

Wait - are these just for advertising?

That's brutal, if so.

They'll be good for purse snatchers to hide behind.
so much for Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED)

[mcminsen]

July 31 '19, my pics

[logan5]

Originally Posted by officedweller

They'll be good for purse snatchers to hide behind.
so much for Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED)

Looks like a giant cellphone. Maybe there's cameras built in.

Good cheap way to display public art, if the desire were there.

[osirisboy]

I hate them and they are ugly. And I thought the city was against billboards?

[trofirhen]

Originally Posted by logan5

Looks like a giant cellphone. Maybe there's cameras built in.

Good cheap way to display public art, if the desire were there.

Originally Posted by osirisboy

I hate them and they are ugly. And I thought the city was against billboards?

Fret not, even Paris has these. Some are outside metro stations, and some are along major shopping streets like Bvd Haussmann. I don't like them either.
In Vancouver, at least some of the displays - if not all - could be used for useful information: weather forecast, current conditions, time & date, transit plans, (and more).
The only positive thing I can say about them (if that) is that maybe they bring a certain "energy" to the streetscape. Nevertheless, that advertising content is tacky, IMO.
Instead of / in addition to / advertising, maybe there could be a function to escape that, click on a program (like transit, or hotels, or weather.....) with an interactive screen.

[Anorak]

They should make them like New York does, with public wifi and a free phone

[WarrenC12]

Originally Posted by Anorak

They should make them like New York does, with public wifi and a free phone

The phone and screen seems expensive and ripe for vandalism, but a #VanWiFi hotspot inside would be a lot simpler and useful.

[mcminsen]

Originally Posted by mcminsen

July 7 '19, my pic

And now the big pillar near the alley is gone.



July 31 '19, my pics

[mcminsen]

Originally Posted by mcminsen

The Burrard Building at Georgia and Burrard.


Oct.14 '18, my pic

The Hermes reveal has started.



July 31 '19, my pics

[officedweller]

Nice, thanks.
The stone looks clean, and the bronze insets are a nice touch.

[retro_orange]

Originally Posted by officedweller

Nice, thanks.
The stone looks clean, and the bronze insets are a nice touch.

Yeah the 2 corner units have been renovated nicely. Now the 80's style grey granite tiles around the Office lobby have to go. A facade renovation of the office entrance would top off the individual podium renovations nicely.

[Vin]

With these CRUs renovated and established with high-end retail, there won't be any "hope" for Vancouver's Tallest to be built here. That is actually a good thing, because the West End has plenty of land and run-down structures to be demo-ed for that.

[GenWhy?]

Originally Posted by Vin

With these CRUs renovated and established with high-end retail, there won't be any "hope" for Vancouver's Tallest to be built here. That is actually a good thing, because the West End has plenty of land and run-down structures to be demo-ed for that.

Current conditional highest allowable is 700', for the next few years or more, at least, along Georgia Street nearest Coal Harbour. I think the current tallest is 650' and change.

[SpongeG]

looks good, will it have a single entrance on Georgia?