General Updates and News - Page 477

FuzzyWuz · #**9521** Posted **Feb 14, 2020, 3:00 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by teddifax

Unfortunately, most of the early office towers and apartment buildings did not have good design but were just built to be built without any consideration to looking good... and of course, the view planes in downtown Halifax don't help in this matter. Buildings with distinctive Roofs would be fantastic, but height would have to be sacrificed.

Something on the south side of the tower, whether taller or shorter as long as it has some style to it, would go a long way toward improving the look.

Keith P. · #**9522** Posted **Feb 19, 2020, 12:59 PM**

Looks almost Eastern European. Odd design.

ScovaNotian · #**9523** Posted **Feb 19, 2020, 1:29 PM**

It's big. I cannot see the neighbours liking it.

IanWatson · #**9524** Posted **Feb 19, 2020, 1:36 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by ScovaNotian

It's big. I cannot see the neighbours liking it.

It appears to be going through the Centre Plan site plan approval process... soooo they're not going to have a lot of say on it.

But yeah, this is the same block as the building that went up on the former Needs, and that one got a lot of neighbourhood hate.

OldDartmouthMark · #**9525** Posted **Feb 19, 2020, 2:32 PM**

I'm not really a fan of the design, nor would I be happy to see another nice Victorian be leveled, but as far as the neighbors' opinions go, I don't see where there would be much room for complaints as it is basically on Dal's campus and that neighborhood already has lots of student housing, offices, the Dal Arts Centre, Killam Library, etc. Plus two of the building being replaced are rather nondescript brick boxes, so I don't see how the new building would be a huge change over what is already there, and in the surrounding neighborhood.

I do think it would be an overall improvement, actually.

Hmmm... maybe the design is based on some sort of misguided nostalgia for the old Dalhousie hockey arena...

Hali87 · #**9526** Posted **Feb 19, 2020, 3:58 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by OldDartmouthMark

Hmmm... maybe the design is based on some sort of misguided nostalgia for the old Dalhousie hockey arena...

That did come to mind when I first saw this. The wood reminds me a bit of the old arena as well as the Cohn Auditorium. It does also look a bit "modern European" in a way that's a bit hard to place.

mleblanc · #**9527** Posted **Feb 19, 2020, 5:02 PM**

I actually really like the look of that. Very Scandinavian looking - it would fit well with the Capitol Suites at Seymour/Coburg being next door.

OldDartmouthMark · #**9528** Posted **Feb 19, 2020, 5:11 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by mleblanc

I actually really like the look of that. Very Scandinavian looking - it would fit well with the Capitol Suites at Seymour/Coburg being next door.

I suspect it's like Alexander Keith's beer... "those who like it like it a lot"...

ScovaNotian · #**9529** Posted **Feb 19, 2020, 6:07 PM**

The street side is one thing. The back of the building is a lot more bland though. It's six stories that go up almost to the property boundary. I guess ultimately the same may happen on LeMarchant and there will be two six-storey blocks with six meters of space between them.

I believe that Dal at one point designed buildings such that they are "tall" on University Avenue and then "gently slope down" towards the back in order to blend in with the neighbourhood. The way the neighbourhood is going they will need to reverse this.

Jstaleness · #**9530** Posted **Feb 20, 2020, 1:22 PM**

Credit- Marco Group LinkedIN

OldDartmouthMark · #**9531** Posted **Feb 20, 2020, 2:30 PM**

Don't know if this has been asked here before, but what's up with the stilts?

Jstaleness · #**9532** Posted **Feb 20, 2020, 2:50 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by OldDartmouthMark

Don't know if this has been asked here before, but what's up with the stilts?

Rising ocean levels.

OldDartmouthMark · #**9533** Posted **Feb 20, 2020, 5:15 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jstaleness

Rising ocean levels.

Houston, we have a problem...

Keith P. · #**9534** Posted **Feb 20, 2020, 8:36 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by OldDartmouthMark

Don't know if this has been asked here before, but what's up with the stilts?

Aesthetically those are an eyesore everywhere they are used. Bare concrete with the sonotubes stripped off never looks good. The Gorsebrook Park development suffers from the same affliction. Surely it cannot be a budget-breaker to clad them with the same material as the building uses, even if you need to square them up.

Querce · #**9535** Posted **Feb 20, 2020, 8:37 PM**

Events for Centre Plan Package B consultation have been posted

https://www.shapeyourcityhalifax.ca/centre-plan/key_dates

Starts with a pop-up at Alderney and Woodside ferry terminals on March 2nd

mleblanc · #**9536** Posted **Feb 21, 2020, 2:53 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Keith P.

Aesthetically those are an eyesore everywhere they are used. Bare concrete with the sonotubes stripped off never looks good. The Gorsebrook Park development suffers from the same affliction. Surely it cannot be a budget-breaker to clad them with the same material as the building uses, even if you need to square them up.

I don't mind them usually - or even in Gorsebrook Park they aren't as dramatic as this, but the Upside in general looks terrible in my opinion.

Hali87 · #**9537** Posted **Feb 23, 2020, 1:43 AM**

I haven't had a chance to get a photo but the random ~10 storey building that's been going up near Armdale Yacht Club is turning out a bit better than I expected. Very "different" for that area but not necessarily in a bad way.

Dmajackson · #**9538** Posted **Feb 23, 2020, 4:02 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hali87

I haven't had a chance to get a photo but the random ~10 storey building that's been going up near Armdale Yacht Club is turning out a bit better than I expected. Very "different" for that area but not necessarily in a bad way.

I believe you mean The Northwest

Hali87 · #**9539** Posted **Feb 24, 2020, 10:22 AM**

That's the one!

Colin May · #**9540** Posted **Feb 25, 2020, 1:44 AM**

HRM sold the old St Pat High School site for $37.6 million on February 4

Take a look at apartment buildings sold on February 10 & 12 for almost $350 million :
Assessment is first followed by sale price

1920 BRUNSWICK ST HALIFAX $35,170,100 $59,148,359

5770 SPRING GARDEN RD HALIFAX $26,742,900 $52,306,930

1858 ALBEMARLE ST HALIFAX $24,627,200 $51,836,793

5885 CUNARD ST HALIFAX $21,916,500 $49,163,621

1888 ALBEMARLE ST HALIFAX $19,675,200 $41,195,196

6080 YOUNG ST HALIFAX $15,623,000 $26,700,000

1972 ALBEMARLE ST HALIFAX $15,134,000 $28,568,294

2065 BRUNSWICK ST HALIFAX $15,059,800 $38,926,243