Pretty sure it's the main sanctuary for the Butterfly church.
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Post # 805 is a photo of the existing church across the street from First Baptist.
I think it's on the First Baptist Facebook because they are temporarily holding services over there (at St. Andrews Wesley United) during construction.
Edit - Changing City already mentioned that...
Are they being made locally (aggregate + window as a unit?)?
Maybe in Duncan? These guys made white precast panels for the SFU project in Surrey for Revery
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In 2017-2018, Surespan Structures supplied 330 curved and straight white architectural precast for the cladding of a science building for Bird Construction/Simon Fraser University. The design of the building by Revery Architecture (formerly Bing Thom Architecture) was intended to mimic the look of a circuit board. The brilliant white of the precast cladding involved importing white cement powder from Mexico and white sand from Ontario. The panels are also cast using several specialty liners that follow the lines of the panel, creating a wave pattern. Surespan Construction installed the panels on the building using multiple cranes as panels had to be rotated on site prior to being hung from the building.
The Butterfly, Building Skin Performance Mock Up.
Façade contractor: Iljin Unisco Corp.
Mock-up location: Korea
Material and system: Glass window wall + precast glass-fiber-reinforced concrete panel
They were a contractor on the Flatiron Building in Coal Harbour, Telus Garden Offices, West Pender Place, Concord's Ericsson Building, Vancouver House, 1568 Alberni
"The pool ribs for the Olympic-sized swimming pool have been assembled locally off-site and will be installed on level 5 before the end of the year. In the new year, the pool will be enclosed in glass, and the facade structure will begin to take shape."
I find it rather chock-full of hubris to be handing out awards for projects proposed or under construction. If I had my druthers, for architecture awards I'd wait at least five-ten years post-completion before a project should be worthy of candidacy. I seem to recall reading recently that an unbuilt rapid transit line in Edmonton just won an award, but I could be wrong about that.
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I find it rather chock-full of hubris to be handing out awards for projects proposed or under construction. If I had my druthers, for architecture awards I'd wait at least five-ten years post-completion before a project should be worthy of candidacy. I seem to recall reading recently that an unbuilt rapid transit line in Edmonton just won an award, but I could be wrong about that.
Well this is a design award, not a construction or project execution award.
Seems perfectly reasonable to me that a project that is only designed but not yet built is eligible for a design award.
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Well this is a design award, not a construction or project execution award.
Seems perfectly reasonable to me that a project that is only designed but not yet built is eligible for a design award.
And yet how often are designs on paper are somehow wonderous, but in actual reality are complete fails?
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And yet how often are designs on paper are somehow wonderous, but in actual reality are complete fails?
Telus Garden's Georgia Plaza comes to mind...
... and anyone with half a brain can predict that the open breezeways 50 storeys up at The Butterfly
will be wet nasty wind tunnel nightmares at times.
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Telus Garden's Georgia Plaza comes to mind...
... and anyone with half a brain can predict that the open breezeways 50 storeys up at The Butterfly
will be wet nasty wind tunnel nightmares at times.
Interesting that you've noted two Westbank projects there. Much of their other projects also being big swings and misses. Interesting to look at perhaps, but a huge post-completion fail.
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Interesting that you've noted two Westbank projects there. Much of their other projects also being big swings and misses. Interesting to look at perhaps, but a huge post-completion fail.
I mean the bait and switch on TELUS House to me stands out as one of the most egregious in Vancouver in the last 2 decades.
The change of the façade from the orange accent radiator grille, to a sea foam blob is epic in the worst way possible.
This was laughably superior;
I don't even want to mention the cake slice up top behind due to the view cone.
Its literally like playing a video game where the view cone is a laser and it sliced the building at an arbitrary angle.
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I don't even want to mention the cake slice up top behind due to the view cone.
Its literally like playing a video game where the view cone is a laser and it sliced the building at an arbitrary angle.
Wild.
Nowhere is this effect more prominent than 723 Seymour Street / Vancouver Centre 2. And I don't think this is the last we've seen of it either -- will it become its own architecture form in the end? "Vancouver Viewcone Vertices" Form?
Here's a fun opportunity -- look at the viewcone / height limits map for the Burrard Building site at Burrard and Georgia St (Site of the future hypothetical 750' tower). Note that it will likely have a triangular floorplate, OR follow the Vancouver Viewcone Vertex style!
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