Cambie Corridor Updates

[vanman]

My pic from Marine Drive Station.

[officedweller]

Oakridge rentals: Marcon adds second rental tower
https://www.urbanyvr.com/marcon-rental-apartments-oakridge/


https://www.urbanyvr.com/marcon-rental-apartments-oakridge/


https://www.urbanyvr.com/marcon-rental-apartments-oakridge/

[LeftCoaster]

~7 FSR seems decent for the area. Could be a bit higher but given some of the paltry FSRs in the area it's more or less a win.

[squeezied]

Looks alright... but pretty generic along with the majority of towers at the SE quadrant of 41st and Cambie. I guess there's no market for visually interesting (ie higher end) product if the Oakridge redevelopment is next door.

This is sort of reminiscent of the West End in the 60's and 70's.

[officedweller]

Those are rental and the location (although across from a park and on a quieter side street) doesn't really scream "premium".

[Migrant_Coconut]

Not everything needs to be Vancouver House. Given the location and it being a rental, I'd rather they stick to "bland, but affordable."

[dleung]

Can someone explain to me what the deal is with this 2-storey penthouse trend lately... I hate this 🞵🞵🞵🞵:



The whole point of the set-back is so that you don't perceive the top floor, giving the illusion of a shorter streetwall (see last photo); but now you can't not see it, and it's usually cladded in worse 🞵🞵🞵🞵 than the rest of the facade... why? One would think the top floor, with the added buffer of the setback, would be more glassy/transparent to articulate the gap between the roof and the street-wall, but often it is more opaque (ie first example). What is driving this 🞵🞵🞵🞵? Wouldn't it be better to just raise the main facade another level to hide this 🞵🞵🞵🞵:


This is how avenue buildings are supposed to look like:

[LeftCoaster]

It's terrible. Supposed to appear just as a 4 floor streetwall building with hidden density above but it usually just comes off as a two tone sloppy building with odd massing.

[dleung]

Did this come from the city? It doesn't appear to be the case because there are indeed new builds on Cambie with 5-storey streetwall + 1 storey "hidden density". Why would a developer choose to do 4-storey streetwall + 2 stories of poorly-hidden density? To split the roof terrace between more/narrower double-height units?

[NewfBC]

Slightly modified 'one-plus-five'...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-plus-five

Ron.

[Vin]

Originally Posted by LeftCoaster

~7 FSR seems decent for the area. Could be a bit higher but given some of the paltry FSRs in the area it's more or less a win.

This is great. Rarely have we seen higher density on a side street than the main street. The paltry FSRs came at a time when the Vision government came up with their lousy original OCP. The sudden move to higher density just before the last elections after sensing the frustrations from the public prompted them to revise it to what is allowed now. I suppose this is democracy at work. It is just too bad some of the lots closest to the skytrain station have the lowest densities due to Vision's original "blurred vision".

[officedweller]

Winona on Cambie

From GBL twitter


https://twitter.com/GBLArchitects

[SpongeG]

this ad has been popping up a lot in my feeds

Claridge House on Cambie. what is that tower in the background supposed to be?

[Ailurus]

Originally Posted by SpongeG

this ad has been popping up a lot in my feeds

Claridge House on Cambie. what is that tower in the background supposed to be?

That's Oakridge Phase 1 along 41st, I think.

This is Polygon's site at Cambie & 41st.

https://shapeyourcity.ca/5740-cambie-st-2

[vanman]

Yeah that's definitely part of Oakridge in the background.


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Cambie Gardens with the cranes of Oakridge in the distance as seen from Richmond.

[Klazu]

Originally Posted by SpongeG

this ad has been popping up a lot in my feeds.

Strange not to have the taller tower fronting the intersection. Then again, also Oakridge complex will be short buildings directly on that corner.

[zahav]

The Oakridge site is insanely busy now, I tried to count all the cranes but couldn't while driving. I want to say at least 8? I wonder if it is the largest construction site in Canada at the moment?

[officedweller]

Originally Posted by Klazu

Strange not to have the taller tower fronting the intersection. Then again, also Oakridge complex will be short buildings directly on that corner.

I like it when they go old school and provide the corner with some breathing room (even if it is a big intersection like this one).

[Vin]

Originally Posted by officedweller

I like it when they go old school and provide the corner with some breathing room (even if it is a big intersection like this one).

I would love a bit of "shadowing" waiting at the intersection if (more like when) summer continues to get hotter, especially in a city that hates putting in road-crossing subterrestrial pedestrian walkways at its train stations and intersections.

[Changing City]

A new Cambie street project - resubmitted with fewer residential condos (now only 48) and more office space - over 100,000 sq ft as well as a 37 space childcare.