Telus Garden | 135m, 88m | 46fl res, 22fl office | 928,000sqft | Completed

[osirisboy]

Extactly. It's the colour they use. And the windows could have more of a tint to them. That would make it look a lot cleaner. Right now it looks like it's cluttered up with blandness. I don't hate the building overall. Just a let down considering what was approved originally

[officedweller]

Originally Posted by Klazu

I think this will be a similar fail in the details as the teal spandrel on Nordstrom Howe Street entrance. If only they would have used the darker tone (darker glass?) they have on the Robson street. That would already make it look higher quality.

That's the weird thing -
most buildings will separate styles or colours into zones vertically based on - podium, tower/shaft, top/cap.

Here, the treatment is based on façade (like sides of a rubic's cube) - so you get an odd disjuncture at the most prominent corner.

[mcminsen]

July 26 '15, my pics

[mcminsen]

The elevator on the Georgia Street plaza is pretty well uncovered now. Looks like there will be a water feature on the east side of it.



July 28 '15, my pics

[Klazu]

Great photos, mcminsen. Does the work crew already know you by name?

[mcminsen]

I got an email notification that Glowbal Telus Garden is having their grand opening on Wednesday Aug. 19th.



July 28 '15, my pics

[mcminsen]

Originally Posted by Klazu

Great photos, mcminsen. Does the work crew already know you by name?

No, I wear a different hat each day so they don't catch on.

[officedweller]

Originally Posted by mcminsen

The sign facing Seymour would have been better lower down and centred above the doorway - unless there's another sign coming.

[mcminsen]

Originally Posted by officedweller

The sign facing Seymour would have been better lower down and centred above the doorway - unless there's another sign coming.

Agreed, and I wonder how many years before the new tree obscures it.

[officedweller]

They'll have to prune them when they hit the protruding part too.

[WarrenC12]

Do the signs light up?

They'll probably have something at street level too. Perhaps a host(ess) podium or something like that.

[s211]

Originally Posted by mcminsen

I got an email notification that Glowbal Telus Garden is having their grand opening on Wednesday Aug. 19th.

Strange that they would have furniture outside a month before opening.

[LeftCoaster]

Originally Posted by s211

Strange that they would have furniture outside a month before opening.

They need to test everything out ahead of time, and of course they will likely have a soft open before their grand opening.

[officedweller]

Pics by me today:

Glass clad (lighted?) edge being installed on Robson side:









NOTE the broken glass on the sawtooth façade spandrel
- you can see how much the glass contributes to the colour of the finished panel.

[nickbeaulieu]

when did Nester's become an IGA?

[osirisboy]

Never. It was always iga there

[s211]

Originally Posted by nickbeaulieu

when did Nester's become an IGA?

Pretty sure that's always been a Nesters.

Nesters is located a couple of blocks south on Seymour.

[WarrenC12]

Nester's is at Seymour and Nelson.

[officedweller]

Nestors is 2 blocks away @ Nelson
IGA was previously Marketplace IGA (green sign)

There's an unusually high concentration of red signage on that building.

[nickbeaulieu]

ahhh, gotcha. I forgot what corner Nester's was on. I coulda swore it was under homesense