Came across a residence by Studio Gang designed for the University of Chicago on Archinect yesterday. Ottawa could use a couple buildings like this, namely at Ottawa U as a residence (over by Lees), or as an Office building at Tunney's.
THIS!!!!! Proposal at Vancouver's Commercial-Broadway Station. 415 market rent units, 40 below market units and 235 condos. 30, 29 and 25 floors (within the common Ottawa range, far better architecture).
I know everyone is excited about 900 Albert, but I find this proposal in Van far better. 900 Albert is better than standard Ottawa, but the architecture is a little too plain for its height and prominence. It will dominate the skyline, possibly forever, but not much effort has been put into building something iconic or even different.
I was just pondering how incredible the new tallest building in Austin,'The Independent', would look on Lebreton near the new Trinity towers. 58 floors, 690ft/210 metres. I wonder if we will see any unique architecture on the flats or if we are destined for more mediocrity. (I don't consider Trinity mediocre, but just about everything else proposed in this city is).
[IMG]rioo8v77yi731 by harley613, on Flickr[/IMG]
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Looks good, and unique, I like (except the podium which looks ugly and like it houses above-ground parking). But yes, let's hope we get something similar for Lebreton.
I do consider Trinity at Bayview, maybe not mediocre, but fairly basic. It will only be a landmark in height only. Not that's it's necessarily a bad thing.
I was just pondering how incredible the new tallest building in Austin,'The Independent', would look on Lebreton near the new Trinity towers. 58 floors, 690ft/210 metres. I wonder if we will see any unique architecture on the flats or if we are destined for more mediocrity. (I don't consider Trinity mediocre, but just about everything else proposed in this city is).
[IMG]rioo8v77yi731 by harley613, on Flickr[/IMG]
Speaking of Austin, it's interesting to see the population growth of a city that was smaller than Ottawa up until 2004 and has seen a meteoric growth in population since. I feel like Ottawa needs a similarly sized population for developers to start taking risks with the architecture to differentiate themselves from the rest.
Speaking of Austin, it's interesting to see the population growth of a city that was smaller than Ottawa up until 2004 and has seen a meteoric growth in population since. I feel like Ottawa needs a similarly sized population for developers to start taking risks with the architecture to differentiate themselves from the rest.
Austin's new skyline would actually look perfect on Lebreton Flats as a whole.
Speaking of Austin, it's interesting to see the population growth of a city that was smaller than Ottawa up until 2004 and has seen a meteoric growth in population since. I feel like Ottawa needs a similarly sized population for developers to start taking risks with the architecture to differentiate themselves from the rest.
Ottawa does a WAY better job at densification and controlling sprawl than Austin
Montreal has a building with a similar offset cubes design as that on Rene Levesque.
An issue with many of those Austin buildings is that their podiums are multi-storey parking garages. I'm a firm believer in no parking or else underground parking.
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Considering the issue with what's happening on Rideau with certain terrible highrise buildings, I thought I'd share some buildings I've found on my google map journeys that I think exemplify good ways of permit multiple highrise buildings on the same block. In some of the buildings below, the materials may not be the most attractive, but the volumes and setbacks from from interior property lines allows for slimmer towers providing spacing between the highrises, no large blank walls, and also allowing light to reach the street. Notably, a lot of them have podiums to provide some setback from the street to be more consistent with existing buildings on that block. I also like that these buildings are tall but not too tall, which I think would work for Rideau. In fact, West Broadway Street in Vancouver has a lot of good examples of smaller highrises, midrises and lowrise buildings commingling that I think would be worth considering for Rideau Street.
Speaking of Austin, it's interesting to see the population growth of a city that was smaller than Ottawa up until 2004 and has seen a meteoric growth in population since.
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