Construction sites in your city/town - Page 580

mcminsen · #**11581** Posted **Sep 26, 2021, 9:40 AM**

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1550 Alberni thread in Vancouver forum.

Sept.25 '21, my pics

J.OT13 · #**11582** Posted **Sep 27, 2021, 12:50 PM**

Claridge Moon, taking up the last of three large surface parking lots in Ottawa (half a block), bounded by Queen, Lyon and Albert, with subway entrance at the corner of Queen and Lyon.

Two 27 floor towers and 8 storey hotel. A much needed grocery store.

20210924_123808 by harley613, on Flickr

GeneralLea · #**11583** Posted **Oct 1, 2021, 9:34 PM**

I took the following yesteray:
The Rosedale on Bloor:

Construction by Draulerin Photographics, on Flickr

Construction by Draulerin Photographics, on Flickr
Saisons + a future phase...in Concord's North York masterplan:

Construction by Draulerin Photographics, on Flickr

WhipperSnapper · #**11584** Posted **Oct 1, 2021, 11:42 PM**

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Nero was completed about 5 years ago but the retail on this vibrant stretch of Dundas St West of Bathurst remains vacant - maybe because it's a large dull blank wall?

Vox Condos was completed in 2018 - Wellesley St East of Yonge

poor quality but Urban Capital's Kingsway by the (Humber) River 2nd phase is looking better

another poor quality drive by shot of Civic 66 rental apartments - Weber St Kitchener

Hamiltonians, any idea what this project is off James St N?

Junction Factory apartments on Dundas St West of Runnymede Rd

Cobourg Apartments in the town of Cobourg - nice town btw I think it might be nicer than Stratford considering its location on the lake!

(there's a rendering of the project on the builder's website: https://www.baldercorp.com/featured-projects/cobourg-apartments
It looks like Cobourg is getting better-looking rentals than you see in KW!

Cobourg is a hotspot for expat Torontonians. I like to place blame on the handful of major Southern Ontario apartment developers however, they are only providing a product people want. Just about anywhere is building a nicer product. That's not just limited to exteriors. The interiors are so off trend. Suburban Halifax looks like London with 6 to 12 storey ugly slabs in parking lots going up everywhere. The interiors of the few models I've seen are on par with the major cities.

someone123 · #**11585** Posted **Oct 2, 2021, 5:50 PM**

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That's not just limited to exteriors. The interiors are so off trend. Suburban Halifax looks like London with 6 to 12 storey ugly slabs in parking lots going up everywhere. The interiors of the few models I've seen are on par with the major cities.

What are your criteria for buildings being ugly or slabs?

Generally I can't keep track of all the suburban highrises being built around metro Halifax. I find most of them ugly because they have large footprints, very little uniqueness and detailing and a very simple exterior appearance, and often don't sit very well on their sites ("plinth" style architecture is common in Halifax when there are elevation changes; build a giant retaining wall or concrete slab to start out with a flat site instead of working with the terrain.. big footprints make this worse). They also tend not to have mixed uses, so even though there might be 12x12 storey buildings in a blob in the suburbs the people in those buildings might have nowhere to walk to.

I don't really get the appeal of them (slightly cheaper, maybe somewhat closer to a desired employment area) but then again they also don't seem worth getting too upset over and I think the quality is trending upward. Often the response to buildings on here is a bit weird because it's devoid of context. People don't know where something fits in in the metro area or what the historic norms are. There's a huge difference between a site in a key area and one out in an office park somewhere.

In the city I tend to like the smaller projects with narrow lot frontage and more detail, and there are quite a few nice ones. There are also some decent larger ones. You can often tell what will be good or bad based on the local developers involved. Architects have some impact too but often the quality seems dictated by the developer/budget. I think some of the architects that have done "ugly" projects just took on lower end ones. Many architects have a wide variety of quality levels while the developers tend to evolve slowly.

someone123 · #**11586** Posted **Oct 2, 2021, 5:59 PM**

This one is under construction in Dartmouth:

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Hawrylyshyn · #**11587** Posted **Oct 2, 2021, 6:00 PM**

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Hamiltonians, any idea what this project is off James St N?

This is Jamesville Lofts -- has been super slow going up and is apaprently put on hold right now by the developer and/or contractor. Definiteley an eye sore for the area.

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New downtown infill project

Jamesville Lofts, 11-15 CANNON ST W, 6 floors, Areacor INC (developer), Lintack Architects

Jamesville Lofts | 11-15 Cannon St. West | 6 Floors | Under Construction

Hawrylyshyn · #**11588** Posted **Oct 2, 2021, 7:23 PM**

Shoutout to user TheHonestMaple for these awesome drone shots of several projects under construction in Hamilton:

Cobalt Luxury Residences On King | 97.5 & 97.5m | 2 x 30 fl

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KIWI Condos on King William | 44m | 15 fl and 1 Jarvis Street | ? | 14 fl

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McMaster Graduate Student Residence | ? | 31 fl & 10 fl

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Platinum Condominiums | 81.3m | 24 fl

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TorontoDrew · #**11589** Posted **Oct 3, 2021, 11:20 PM**

I shoukd have taken pics in Friday, but Sky Tower now has it's main crane in place. We now have 2 supertalls officialy under construction. I'm still not sure which is taller though. The One's height is still up in the air since they applied for an increase.

urbandreamer · #**11590** Posted **Oct 4, 2021, 2:16 AM**

The Woodsworth

Rush is so much nicer than Waterworks

Theatre District

Peter and Adelaide

19 Duncan

299 Campbell

75 the Esplanade

Via Bloor

8 Cumberland

West Donlands Block 8

Station Park - Kitchener

The Market Flats - Kitchener

King and Madison - Kitchener

Innsertnamehere · #**11591** Posted **Oct 4, 2021, 7:40 PM**

groundbreaking today for a new, 644 unit, 34 storey building in Hamilton at 75 James St S. At 111 metres, this will be the second tallest building in the city and tallest building built in Hamilton in 50 years. It's two blocks south of Gage Park and the future LRT, and a block north of the Hamilton GO station.

https://twitter.com/joemancinelli/status/1445084211266924562?s=19

644 units is also probably roughly equal to the amount of units added downtown in the past decade.

With this under construction now, there are about 3,300 units currently under construction in downtown Hamilton, which should house about 5,000 people when complete, which represents an increase of about 55% over 2016.

WhipperSnapper · #**11592** Posted **Oct 5, 2021, 4:20 PM**

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Originally Posted by someone123

What are your criteria for buildings being ugly or slabs?

Generally I can't keep track of all the suburban highrises being built around metro Halifax. I find most of them ugly because they have large footprints, very little uniqueness and detailing and a very simple exterior appearance, and often don't sit very well on their sites ("plinth" style architecture is common in Halifax when there are elevation changes; build a giant retaining wall or concrete slab to start out with a flat site instead of working with the terrain.. big footprints make this worse). They also tend not to have mixed uses, so even though there might be 12x12 storey buildings in a blob in the suburbs the people in those buildings might have nowhere to walk to.

I don't really get the appeal of them (slightly cheaper, maybe somewhat closer to a desired employment area) but then again they also don't seem worth getting too upset over and I think the quality is trending upward. Often the response to buildings on here is a bit weird because it's devoid of context. People don't know where something fits in in the metro area or what the historic norms are. There's a huge difference between a site in a key area and one out in an office park somewhere.

In the city I tend to like the smaller projects with narrow lot frontage and more detail, and there are quite a few nice ones. There are also some decent larger ones. You can often tell what will be good or bad based on the local developers involved. Architects have some impact too but often the quality seems dictated by the developer/budget. I think some of the architects that have done "ugly" projects just took on lower end ones. Many architects have a wide variety of quality levels while the developers tend to evolve slowly.

Ugly is subjective. Still, I think both slabs and ugly are pretty self explanatory comparing new suburban London apartment buildings to Halifax's. Buildings rising from retangular footprints surrounded by either greenspace or parking lots; completely void of any urban setting.

Kevin_foster · #**11593** Posted **Oct 8, 2021, 1:13 PM**

CNIB Edmonton

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn...view_base%3BJXAb2LVySAmnpigsDLv6Qw%3D%3D

WhipperSnapper · #**11594** Posted **Oct 8, 2021, 3:18 PM**

repeating pattern of white and grey spandrel with randomly placed cantilevered balconies (side with construction hoist) That ugly 10ish storey high rise next door (some of you call commie blocks) has higher design standards.

someone123 · #**11595** Posted **Oct 8, 2021, 4:55 PM**

View down George Street in Halifax changing with new construction. Queen's Marque is easy to identify now that it has a label on it. You can also see the back of a building (Dennis) that's being incorporated into a new development, Press Block. The empty corner of that block will be built out.

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