Downtown Vancouver Updates

[csbvan]

Just ghastly. All around.

[Changing City]

Originally Posted by gaviscon

835-837 Beatty St.


It says they're cleaning abestos found in the building. I think it'll be demolished soon.

It's not supposed to be demolished. "The original warehouse was designed to take an additional four warehouse floors, but these were never built. The structure is still capable of taking additional weight, so the plans for the addition add three floors of office with a mass timber and laminated panel construction. The existing building will have the paint on the bricks removed, returning the lower part of the building to its original appearance." [Changing City blog]

[officedweller]

I can't help but think this would have looked better with a strong black mullioned block on top of it - like 402 Dunsmuir's cladding.
That looks like brick cladding up top which may look odd joined with the brick on the bottom.

[dleung]

^^One possible exception to the no-brown-on-brown rule would be if the new brick was wood-coloured like above, which seems to work ok

Originally Posted by gaviscon

Looks very Montreal

[officedweller]

Originally Posted by dleung

^^One possible exception to the no-brown-on-brown rule would be if the new brick was wood-coloured like above, which seems to work ok

It may just be an aversion to combinations of brick.
Like at The Independent.
I like the proposed proportions of the windows on the addition.
I think it would look fine it it were plain concrete up top too (instead of brick).

Originally Posted by mcminsen

May 4 '19, my pics

[dleung]

Oh yeah, that turd sure earned its name, with every element seemingly designed Independent of each other

[gaviscon]

I find Independent's street-level design to be pretty good though. Esp. the side facing 10th.

[officedweller]

Yup, the 10th side is the nice side.

[Jimbo604]

Originally Posted by dleung

Oh yeah, that turd sure earned its name, with every element seemingly designed Independent of each other

Looks like they were offered up three colour pallets and asked which one they'd like for the development and they said, "All of them."

It is a pretty massive building though, do you think they went with the different colour schemes to split the different sections up and not appear as one monolith?

[Zepfancouver]

My beloved Marine Building and MNP Tower Two hurt in explosion and underground electrical vault fire in Vancouver More importantly, how are the buildings?

[WarrenC12]

Lots of rumours flying about the fire, but I'm sure the real explanation is boring.

[VancouverOfTheFuture]

Originally Posted by WarrenC12

Lots of rumours flying about the fire, but I'm sure the real explanation is boring.

probably cables arcing in the manhole, and then a build up of gases over time. the next arc being the one that sets it off to explode once gases have built up. its happened before and i am sure it will happen again in the future. its rare but when you have many, many kms of underground cables, there will be faults.

[gaviscon]

The rezoning app for Fairmont Hotel Vancouver extension has been submitted:

No link is available yet on the COV website though.

[madog222]

Nice find.

Can't say I like that design, especially what's going on at the 5th level.

[s211]

Originally Posted by gaviscon

The rezoning app for Fairmont Hotel Vancouver extension has been submitted:

No link is available yet on the COV website though.

Wow. A couple of decades ago, the Cathedral Place tower aped the Hotel Van across the street. Nowadays, this thing cheek-to-jowl with the Hotel Van has zero tie-in.

I'd love to be a fly on the wall if this went to the UDP.

[GenWhy?]

Originally Posted by s211

Wow. A couple of decades ago, the Cathedral Place tower aped the Hotel Van across the street. Nowadays, this thing cheek-to-jowl with the Hotel Van has zero tie-in.

I'd love to be a fly on the wall if this went to the UDP.

This would be more of a say from Heritage and it looks perfectly in line with their recommendations in the past and national guidelines (the contrast scheme).

[jollyburger]

As long as it doesn't encroach into the roof line of the hotel I don't have a real problem with that. I wonder if they used architectsAlliance like for the Chateau Laurier extension wing.

I wonder if they would ever allow the old VPL Central Library to have a tower built on top of that?

[officedweller]

It does remind me of the Chateau Laurier approach, and it seems to cover the bare brick area on the south side of the hotel.

It's not very tall, but I wonder if the base includes some office space for a CTV expansion to its space in the old Library?
That recess seems to inetgrate with the deck on the old library.

Here's a pic showing the extent of the brick on the south side (i.e. which an extension would cover up)
Looks like the addition just exceeds the 2nd setback, so well below the copper roof and maybe just below the Roof's arched windows.


https://www.insidevancouver.ca/2014/02/2...st-rooftop-bar-at-hotel-vancouver-opens/

[jollyburger]

Originally Posted by officedweller

It does remind me of the Chateau Laurier approach, and it seems to cover the bare brick area on the south side of the hotel.

It's not very tall, but I wonder if the base includes some office space for a CTV expansion to its space in the old Library?
That recess seems to inetgrate with the deck on the old library.

I think it's just an architectural courtesy cut out to reference the VPL library roofline.

The page is on Shapeyourcity but still set to private.

https://www.shapeyourcity.ca/900-w-georgia-st

[logan5]

Originally Posted by jollyburger

I think it's just an architectural courtesy cut out to reference the VPL library roofline.

The page is on Shapeyourcity but still set to private.

https://www.shapeyourcity.ca/900-w-georgia-st

Can you take a screen shot and post it? Curious to see what this looks like. That picture above doesn't reveal much.