Downtown Vancouver Updates - Page 993

SpongeG · #**19841** Posted **Jul 25, 2021, 7:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by jollyburger

I'm not a fan of the red stained wood.

me neither the whole thing just looks bad. It reminds me of when you add a shed structure to a trailer home and the two just don't mesh.

s211 · #**19842** Posted **Jul 25, 2021, 7:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by Zepfancouver

Public parks are competing with the 'looking down at your phone generation'.

Can I ask why a park should have to compete at all?

Or is this project perhaps the brainstorm of a certain UDP member?

Migrant_Coconut · #**19843** Posted **Jul 25, 2021, 7:49 PM**

Weren't we complaining five years ago that Vision's lawns were too generic?

Changing City · #**19844** Posted **Jul 25, 2021, 8:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by s211

Or is this project perhaps the brainstorm of a certain UDP member?

It was designed by local architect DIALOG. Nobody from the company is currently on the UDP, and neither were they when the UDP reviewed the design in 2017. In addition to the Park Board staff, there was also an advisory panel involved in the initial design process: "a selected group of individuals and representatives who reside, work or have involvement within an organization in proximity to the new Park site."

vanman · #**19845** Posted **Jul 25, 2021, 9:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut

Weren't we complaining five years ago that Vision's lawns were too generic?

Very true.

I think it could work but it will probably need to be locked up at night which is a common practice in other large cities.

vanman · #**19846** Posted **Jul 25, 2021, 9:37 PM**

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Originally Posted by jollyburger

I'm not a fan of the red stained wood.

It's better than grey spandrel but it does clash with the brick.

SpongeG · #**19847** Posted **Jul 25, 2021, 9:41 PM**

this is a much better done and better looking addition

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jollyburger · #**19848** Posted **Jul 25, 2021, 9:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by vanman

It's better than grey spandrel but it does clash with the brick.

Yeah I just liked the lighter brown stains they had on the rendering. Not complaining about the wood.

Changing City · #**19849** Posted **Jul 25, 2021, 10:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by SpongeG

this is a much better done and better looking addition

There's another Yaletown addition that uses a similar material.

The problem here is that both your example, and the Yaletown Brewpub use corroded steel, and the Homer Street addition has a very light steel frame, as you can see from the exposed columns. I don't think it would take the weight that steel cladding would add.

SpongeG · #**19850** Posted **Jul 25, 2021, 10:32 PM**

it just looks really cheap and like well we just wanted more space so we threw something up.

officedweller · #**19851** Posted **Jul 26, 2021, 2:04 AM**

I think the project next to Stadium Station is the benchmark. I like the way that one looks.

I think they are trying to be matchy-matchy.
But even if a single family house has brick at the base and wood siding above, they don't use the same colour for both.
The wood siding on its own doesn't look bad, it just doesn't work with the rustic brick below.

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Originally Posted by mcminsen

Some pics from today...

July 24 '21, my pics

jollyburger · #**19852** Posted **Jul 26, 2021, 2:49 AM**

The worst wood choice has to be Vancouver House. I walked by the other day and all the stairwells and decking just looks horrible. It hasn't aged well.

scryer · #**19853** Posted **Jul 26, 2021, 3:07 AM**

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Originally Posted by jollyburger

The worst wood choice has to be Vancouver House. I walked by the other day and all the stairwells and decking just looks horrible. It hasn't aged well.

It has been 1 year pretty much. But yeah, I agree though... although I will say that it probably won't age well 5 years on.

IMO, the best material that ages well is brick

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WarrenC12 · #**19854** Posted **Jul 26, 2021, 3:17 PM**

I'm not a huge fan of the Richards park, particularly the time it has taken to all come together. That said, it's fine as a one-off, not a trend.

Klazu · #**19855** Posted **Jul 27, 2021, 2:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by csbvan

The Army and Navy location is in one of the most appealing areas if you're looking at future potential. Heritage architecture, the refurbishment of Blood Alley, the high-end dining boom of Chinatown. It's where the old buildings are, and eventually, it's where all the tourists will be.

https://globalnews.ca/news/8058533/vancouver-chinatown-crisis-vandalism/

uzi · #**19856** Posted **Jul 27, 2021, 5:57 PM**

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Vin · #**19857** Posted **Jul 28, 2021, 12:49 AM**

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Originally Posted by SpongeG

it just looks really cheap and like well we just wanted more space so we threw something up.

That's exactly what it was. They might as well pitch a tent on top.

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Originally Posted by mcminsen

^^^ office dweller's post was from April 13 '21.

Some pics from today...

July 24 '21, my pics

Now officially the ugliest building in town that only this generation can concoct.
The top part looks like a cheap industrial office building from the third world.

Sad day for Yaletown's historic district.

Vin · #**19858** Posted **Jul 28, 2021, 1:03 AM**

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Originally Posted by Klazu

https://globalnews.ca/news/8058533/vancouver-chinatown-crisis-vandalism/

That's horrible! The City wouldn't care since it's only Chinatown where people are pretty meek.

Don't worry, sooner or later it will spread all over Vancouver when businesses leave for greener pastures.

officedweller · #**19859** Posted **Jul 28, 2021, 11:07 PM**

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Originally Posted by GenWhy?

74 West Hastings days have got to be numbered by now. That giant empty lot just destroys that block. Cordova is leagues better. Tamer with the Gastown crowds having largely come back.

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Originally Posted by Changing City

Is 74 W Hastings the site on the south side, across from A&N, next to the Portland Hotel? It's under construction (as 58 W Hastings). Health Centre and a mix of market and social housing, developed by the Chinatown Foundation with BC Housing funds.

Construction begins on Downtown Eastside's largest social housing project ever
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/58-west-...foundation-social-housing-coastal-health

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/58-west-...foundation-social-housing-coastal-health

GenWhy? · #**19860** Posted **Jul 28, 2021, 11:22 PM**

Ya all the more reason for the bar next door to go in one form or another.