320 Granville St |115m | 32Fl | Completed

[officedweller]

It's big compared to condo towers.

[jollyburger]

Actually I think those are the old VIA floorplans. I haven't seen any showing the Kohn Pedersen Fox design.

[LeftCoaster]

Originally Posted by Zepfancouver

Look at it...And they haven't yet finished buttoning up the exterior form-work for the core (elevator lobby and stairwell). Everything is relative, for me it's one of the larger ones I've seen.

On the ROYAL LePAGE site https://www.stanleylamprec.com/build...0-granville-st they have 8 High-Speed Elevators with 2 Dedicated Parking Elevators. I can't say what is accurate.

I'd say that core as drawn is comparatively very small for an office building. It's only 1,200 square feet.

The Crystal across the street, at a lower floor count, is nearly twice as big.

[domusile]

Here is the updated DP package with KPF design - 8 elevators.

https://wayback.archive-it.org/8849/...appendix-c.pdf

[jollyburger]

Thank you!

[jollyburger]

Originally Posted by LeftCoaster

I'd say that core as drawn is comparatively very small for an office building. It's only 1,200 square feet.

The Crystal across the street, at a lower floor count, is nearly twice as big.

And both eight elevators.

[Zepfancouver]

Thanks for the design update.

I now understand the difference from a condo and office tower core (the need to move office workers and client efficiently...Time is money)

[VancouverOfTheFuture]

Originally Posted by Zepfancouver

Thanks for the design update.

I now understand the difference from a condo and office tower core (the need to move office workers and client efficiently...Time is money)

and that is why the little 15 floor building, the Qube, has 4 elevators. it was originally a office tower. another reason, office towers are assets on a companies books. condos are an expense on a developers books.

[officedweller]

from VancouverMarket.ca twitter today:


https://twitter.com/vancouvermrkt

[Klazu]

Not the fastest project in town.

[mcminsen]

Aug.25 '20, my pics

[officedweller]

Wow - I did not expect this one to be steel frame!
BUT - I see:
- rebar poking out the top of the steel columns
- a concrete column in the last shot

So... will they be pouring a concrete slab above those steel columns?

Thanks.

PS - what's up with the pixelation of the 333 Seymour facades?
Panes being replaced?

[jollyburger]

Originally Posted by officedweller

PS - what's up with the pixelation of the 333 Seymour facades?
Panes being replaced?

Age

Horizontal banding
The original aesthetic of the tower, which
emphasized a strong horizontal banding
through an even ratio of spandrel to vision
glass, has been blurred by the degradation
of the existing back-film on the spandrel
units, causing the spandrel glass to read
similar to the vision units.

https://development.vancouver.ca/333...alysis_000.pdf

If you look at the sides you can tell which parts of the building got the most sunlight.

[officedweller]

Ha! Thanks.

[mcminsen]

Originally Posted by mcminsen

Aug.25 '20, my pic

The progress is most visible from the alley.



Sept.13 '20, my pics

[Vin]

Great set of photos: thanks. Feels like the times in the early 1900s when steam powered almost everything, with the consequence of soot and smog everywhere.

[mcminsen]

Oct.13 '20, my pics

[LeftCoaster]

Thanks for the update. Still slow going as they finish the over-height lobby floors but should start to grow quickly now that they have reached the office plates.

[jollyburger]

They were setting up that yellow scaffolding (?) seen in the last few photos around the core (?) today.

[mcminsen]

Oct.31 '20, my pics