Nice shots with the copper showing.
I hadn't realized that the juliet balconies get deeper as they move up the tower on the overhang side
(but that makes sense from a space efficiency perspective)
I also loved how the surface material and the copper details were shining in the sunshine. Looks really high quality all around.
I keep thinking that it is so hard to identify a particular floor under the overhang that someone could easily have bootleg Christmas lights year-round and nobody would be able to pinpoint the floor and unit. It looks mesmerising.
VH features prominently in a Macleans article on condo "amenity wars" this week. Although this is the first I've heard of the Cambodian homes initiative they claim created a lot of buzz:
Canada's condo amenity wars
Competition for affluent condo buyers has developers piling on frills—car fleets, meditation walls and even perks that assuage the social conscience
By Aaron Hutchins
February 23, 2021
The marketing material for Vancouver House listed 20 reasons to buy a home inside the residential skyscraper overlooking False Creek. Among them: use of a fleet of BMWs; access to a 25-m heated rooftop pool configured so it’s sheltered from the wind yet lets in sunshine; and a 24-hour concierge trained to the same standard as those at the five-star Fairmont Pacific Rim hotel.
But when Allen Oram joined the project as part of the Westbank Development sales team in 2014—before the building broke ground—he was moved to buy a unit for himself, in part because of a more unique incentive located halfway around the world. For each of the units sold at the 370-residence Vancouver House, another home would be constructed in Cambodia for poverty-stricken families living near a garbage dump...
...The initiative was a headline-grabber back home, winning plaudits for both the developer and the non-profit. “It changed the conversation away from countertops and square footage,” says Don McQuaid, managing director of World Housing. But from a cold-eyed market perspective, it was the latest gambit in an increasingly high-stakes race. As competition for young, high-income buyers heats up, developers are offering menus of amenities, perks and benefits that would have seemed unthinkable during the condo boom of the 1980s, when a party room and an indoor pool seemed sufficiently luxurious...
VH features prominently in a Macleans article on condo "amenity wars" this week. Although this is the first I've heard of the Cambodian homes initiative they claim created a lot of buzz:
Canada's condo amenity wars
Competition for affluent condo buyers has developers piling on frills—car fleets, meditation walls and even perks that assuage the social conscience
By Aaron Hutchins
February 23, 2021
The marketing material for Vancouver House listed 20 reasons to buy a home inside the residential skyscraper overlooking False Creek. Among them: use of a fleet of BMWs; access to a 25-m heated rooftop pool configured so it’s sheltered from the wind yet lets in sunshine; and a 24-hour concierge trained to the same standard as those at the five-star Fairmont Pacific Rim hotel.
But when Allen Oram joined the project as part of the Westbank Development sales team in 2014—before the building broke ground—he was moved to buy a unit for himself, in part because of a more unique incentive located halfway around the world. For each of the units sold at the 370-residence Vancouver House, another home would be constructed in Cambodia for poverty-stricken families living near a garbage dump...
...The initiative was a headline-grabber back home, winning plaudits for both the developer and the non-profit. “It changed the conversation away from countertops and square footage,” says Don McQuaid, managing director of World Housing. But from a cold-eyed market perspective, it was the latest gambit in an increasingly high-stakes race. As competition for young, high-income buyers heats up, developers are offering menus of amenities, perks and benefits that would have seemed unthinkable during the condo boom of the 1980s, when a party room and an indoor pool seemed sufficiently luxurious...
The electrical in those triangle little rooms have been retrofitted to be offices.
One day it can also be converted into a 100 sq/ft apartment (New York City style). At the right price, I'd be able to deal with the space
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