929 Richmond by Brigil | 70.6m | 20fl | Completed

[waterloowarrior]

Azure Urban Developments is advertising for Director, Design and Construction for this project and future company projects.

https://ca.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=91ef7a1b0ffdc36f

[Proof Sheet]

Originally Posted by waterloowarrior

Azure Urban Developments is advertising for Director, Design and Construction for this project and future company projects.

https://ca.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=91ef7a1b0ffdc36f

Interesting. I doubt that they will get a candidate with all of those qualifications especially a masters in engineering.

[Marcus CLS]

Excavation has finally started. Some top soil is stripped. One shovel on site and a pile of rubber tire blasting blankets.

[Arcologist]

I'm glad to see something going up on the site, but wish we were still getting the original design.

[Marcus CLS]

Blasting and excavation is well underway.

[waterloowarrior]

Building permit issued for a 20 storey mixed-use building Sept 25, 2019 ($41 million value)

[Jayday23]

New renders: http://webcast.ottawa.ca/plan/All_Image%...%20Perspective%201-%20D07-12-17-0160.PDF

[rocketphish]

Originally Posted by Jayday23

New renders: http://webcast.ottawa.ca/plan/All_Image%...%20Perspective%201-%20D07-12-17-0160.PDF

Siteplan:




Renderings:

[FutureWickedCity]

Grey and greyer

[McKellarDweller]

Originally Posted by FutureWickedCity

Grey and greyer

It's a very tasteful palette, and won't age badly in my opinion.
There's a lot of visual clutter along that stretch of Richmond - I think a clean looking building with good quality veneers and glazing like these renders is great for this site.

Maybe some stone cladding on the podium would give it some more weight and visual interest, but whatever.

[AuxTown]

Looks nice in the render. The grey brick is boring but not offensive. For me, it always reminds me of more institutional architecture, particularly what we see at Carleton. In the end, it will come down to the glass.

...or maybe they will have a last minute change of heart and swap out for the same yellow brick we see at Lebreton and Envie!

[waterloowarrior]

The approved elevations are slightly different than the renders - large mechanical penthouse added. Updated the height/floor count.

http://webcast.ottawa.ca/plan/All_Image%...ed%20Elevations%20-%20D07-12-17-0160.PDF

[Harley613]

Another Motherfu#$#$@* Roderick Lahey masterpiece. 'RLA Architecture...making Ottawa Mediocre One Gray Brick at a Time'

[jitterbug]

Would it kill the architect to include some colour accent?! The recently completed Nuovo on Rochester Street is also mostly grey, bit it also has white framing and red accents -- however subtle the red areas may be. Life need not be all grey or beige. Yuck.

[Urbanarchit]

It's the same as Brutalism, except with grey brick and glass! (All his works are the same grey colouring). Should be nice and depressing come winter when the skies are grey too).

I agree with others, RLA need to start coming up with better designs and use more colour beside grey, white, black, and beige (though not that lime green like they used on the highrise on Gloucester they did).

[Marcus CLS]

Crane went up today. For the 1st time since I moved to my condo 3 years ago with a western view there are 2 cranes on the skyline. The other barely visible is Brigil Baseline.

[Jayday23]

Foundation work has started.

[Harley613]

Today's Progress:

DJI_0200 by harley613, on Flickr

[Marcus CLS]

Forming of P4 and P3 is done and about half of P2.

[Flemay]

Any updates or recent pictures of this one?