[Burnaby] City of Lougheed | Phase 1 Completed - Page 48

Lexus · #**941** Posted **Oct 3, 2020, 1:23 AM**

October 2, 2020

Untitled by Lexus, on Flickr

Untitled by Lexus, on Flickr

Clearly pass onto a setback.

Untitled by Lexus, on Flickr

officedweller · #**942** Posted **Oct 3, 2020, 2:21 AM**

Nice angles from the train.
Thanks.

Zepfancouver · #**943** Posted **Oct 3, 2020, 3:31 AM**

I like those skytrain perspectives...Very nice!
I may have captured you (Lexus) on the skytrain today

5 and a half weeks later, I was back at the Strathmore Towers today. Captured from the rooftop of one of the smaller (Strathmore) towers (16th floor).

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SpongeG · #**944** Posted **Oct 25, 2020, 12:16 AM**

Oct 24

2020-10-24_05-03-18 by snub_you, on Flickr

Zepfancouver · #**945** Posted **Oct 26, 2020, 9:15 PM**

^^^ Nice shot... I like how all 4 horizontal jibs are pointing in one direction, like weapons protecting they territory.

LeftCoaster · #**946** Posted **Oct 26, 2020, 9:22 PM**

Must have been windy and just set to weather vane.

Looks like the NE tower (Tower 1?) is topped out or nearly so.

mattropolis · #**947** Posted **Oct 26, 2020, 9:32 PM**

The HomeTown store was located across Austin in the building where the City of Lougheed presentation centre is now. It was a few different businesses after HomeTown closed. Sears outlet? maybe others before that.

SpongeG · #**948** Posted **Oct 26, 2020, 10:28 PM**

When I moved to the area in 1991 it was Beaver Lumber.

officedweller · #**949** Posted **Oct 26, 2020, 11:17 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by mattropolis

The HomeTown store was located across Austin in the building where the City of Lougheed presentation centre is now. It was a few different businesses after HomeTown closed. Sears outlet? maybe others before that.

Cool, thanks.
Was wondering about where it was.

SpongeG · #**950** Posted **Oct 26, 2020, 11:51 PM**

this is from a year ago

wikimedia.org

Klazu · #**951** Posted **Oct 26, 2020, 11:56 PM**

Nice! This must be from somewhere in New Westminster? I have noticed some nice vantage points from there that I should visit

Zepfancouver · #**952** Posted **Oct 29, 2020, 12:41 AM**

4 weeks later, back at The Strathmore Towers today. North East tower, 4 floors added in that period. Still building up on that tower (1?).

officedweller · #**953** Posted **Oct 29, 2020, 4:10 AM**

Thanks.

What's that white building behind to the right just past the guideway?
Condo display centre?
EDIT - Saw it in another pic - Anthem's display centre.

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From GBL twitter Oct 27th:

https://twitter.com/GBLArchitects

https://twitter.com/GBLArchitects

Steps at the base of the tower are unexpected.

https://twitter.com/GBLArchitects

SFUVancouver · #**954** Posted **Oct 29, 2020, 3:53 PM**

Great photo update. What a great set of views.

dleung · #**955** Posted **Oct 29, 2020, 7:47 PM**

really curious how they resolve the grades with the parcel between this and the older condo north of Cochrane (where they chose to keep the ground level 60 feet above the mall parking lot, whereas here they opted for a steep east-west road...

officedweller · #**956** Posted **Oct 29, 2020, 10:41 PM**

The block to the north will have a road at a higher elevation.
You can see a north-south overpass over the steeply sloped road shown in the pic above.

From Feb 2016:

Quote:

Originally Posted by urbancanadian

The images are taken from this document:
https://burnaby.civicweb.net/filepro/documents/?preview=16174 (9.1 MB)

Quote:

Originally Posted by urbancanadian

Figure I might as well post the rest of the drawings:
Taken from here: https://burnaby.civicweb.net/filepro/documents/?preview=16174

North Road pocket parks:

Cheers!

dleung · #**957** Posted **Oct 30, 2020, 4:17 PM**

What's the point of that overpass? Why wouldn't they just bring that down to grade? Seems like really dated urbanism just to maximize the efficiency of a parking podium superblock and avoid dealing with grade changes.

Klazu · #**958** Posted **Oct 30, 2020, 7:24 PM**

Nothing is at grade in this location. It's on a hillside

Spr0ckets · #**959** Posted **Oct 31, 2020, 12:10 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Klazu

Nothing is at grade in this location. It's on a hillside

"At grade" is a general expression (in architecture and construction) that means above ground, .....i.e. specifically on or at ground level.

Regardless of whether its sloping or flat.

At the most basic level it just means "at ground level"
So the corresponding expressions would be 'Below grade' (underground,...like a parkade or basement) and 'Above grade' (above ground level but not AT ground level,...i.e. higher).

For sloping sites, the convention is that the side of the building where your entrance is, is what is considered 'Grade level'.

Interestingly enough, in Civil engineering, when a road or rail track goes through a mountain that has been tunneled through or blasted through to create the path, then that section of the road is considered 'Below grade',...even though it may be several hundred feet above sea level and any nearby ground.

ranvancan · #**960** Posted **Oct 31, 2020, 8:56 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spr0ckets

"At grade" is a general expression (in architecture and construction) that means above ground, .....i.e. specifically on or at ground level.

Regardless of whether its sloping or flat.

At the most basic level it just means "at ground level"
So the corresponding expressions would be 'Below grade' (underground,...like a parkade or basement) and 'Above grade' (above ground level but not AT ground level,...i.e. higher).

For sloping sites, the convention is that the side of the building where your entrance is, is what is considered 'Grade level'.

Interestingly enough, in Civil engineering, when a road or rail track goes through a mountain that has been tunneled through or blasted through to create the path, then that section of the road is considered 'Below grade',...even though it may be several hundred feet above sea level and any nearby ground.

Ohhhhhhh? Giving free development/construction lessons to Klazu and the rest of us? May be some reprimanding coming?