Burnaby Updates

[Spr0ckets]

Originally Posted by officedweller

5895 Barker
Concord Pacific

I see influence from The Butterfly's design.
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To be fair though, it's just a regular square floor plate tower design with curved balconies doing most of the heavy lifting to give hit that curved look.

The Butterfly has actual curves on its plate design and not just the balconies wrapping around like this one.

Still,..
Any variation from the usual bland rectangular square blocks we get is nice.

[Spr0ckets]

Originally Posted by officedweller

4330 Maywood

120 homes proposed near SkyTrain's Metrotown Station
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/4330...street-burnaby

They really had to blandify the surrounding buildings to make this one look good.

To be fair (again), most of the surrounding buildings are those godawful walkups and teardowns - most of which haven't seen a facelift in the last couple of decades and almost all of which would wish they looked nearly as good as the renders make them look.

Even the towers shown in the distance which I supposed are the Central Park adjacent Brutalist concrete monstrosities from the 60's and 70's are getting a more favourable edit in these images than they deserve.

[officedweller]

Originally Posted by Spr0ckets

To be fair though, it's just a regular square floor plate tower design with curved balconies doing most of the heavy lifting to give hit that curved look.

The Butterfly has actual curves on its plate design and not just the balconies wrapping around like this one.

Still,..
Any variation from the usual bland rectangular square blocks we get is nice.

Actually I was just referring to the undulation of the solid part of the balcony enclosure/railing.

Wrt floorplate, probably more like Wave / Linea.

Originally Posted by Spr0ckets

Even the towers shown in the distance which I supposed are the Central Park adjacent Brutalist concrete monstrosities from the 60's and 70's are getting a more favourable edit in these images than they deserve.

I couldn't figure out what that 3 tower building in the background was supposed to be.

[Spr0ckets]

Originally Posted by officedweller

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I couldn't figure out what that 3 tower building in the background was supposed to be.

Filler.

Most likely just filler for the render to show buildings in the background.

A quick glance of that stretch of land and area adjacent to Central park with those towers shows no such 3-tower complex, and none of the actually existing towers close enough to each other to resemble anything like that.




This is all assuming that that view is facing west (which it almost certainly is given the Tower location relative to Maywood St.).

The people who do these renders do this sort of thing all the time.

[officedweller]

Thanks.
That's what I was thinking.

[logan5]

Originally Posted by officedweller

4330 Maywood

120 homes proposed near SkyTrain's Metrotown Station
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/4330...street-burnaby

They are really pumping up the density in Burnaby. This proposal falls within the RM4s district, which has a maximum density of 3.6 FSR. This proposal totals 6.27 FSR, which includes the required 20% rental (.72 FSR), and .85 FSR density offset to make up for added cost of the below market rentals. Not sure what the 1.1 FSR density bonus is for.

So the density increases by 2.67, which is a lot.

Metro Vancouver's forecast for Metrotown population is 65 000, but that was based on an older land use policy. With all this new density, the population would top out closer to 80 000 or 90 000, and that's in an area of only .8 square miles.

[Klazu]

Originally Posted by officedweller

4330 Maywood

120 homes proposed near SkyTrain's Metrotown Station
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/4330...street-burnaby

They really had to blandify the surrounding buildings to make this one look good.

I am excited for this project as it will help push high-rises further south from the Beresford Street row and we will hopefully see many more to come.

[Klazu]

Originally Posted by officedweller

The gold clad former GVRD/Metro Vancouver Towers on Kingsway are going to be reclad.

Definitely a downgrade from current.



I also hate how they have painted one of the nearby beige concrete towers to the most boring gray tone out there. We are losing even the slightest hint of color in our buildings.

[SpongeG]

that Joyce tower just stands out so much, love it

[officedweller]

Thanks for pointing that out.

[SpongeG]

Condo King’ derides Burnaby’s Metrotown as ‘not liveable’

With the City of Burnaby looking at making radical changes to the Metrotown area – creating a new city downtown core from scratch – Metro Vancouver’s “Condo King” had some words about where this area sits right now.

Bob Rennie, one of the nation’s most successful developers, had harsh words for Metrotown’s development over the years.

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https://www.burnabynow.com/news/cond...YfuOgUhPRb4J5w

[Spr0ckets]

Originally Posted by SpongeG

Condo King’ derides Burnaby’s Metrotown as ‘not liveable’

With the City of Burnaby looking at making radical changes to the Metrotown area – creating a new city downtown core from scratch – Metro Vancouver’s “Condo King” had some words about where this area sits right now.

Bob Rennie, one of the nation’s most successful developers, had harsh words for Metrotown’s development over the years.

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https://www.burnabynow.com/news/cond...YfuOgUhPRb4J5w

You just knew that that was going to show up here with how people on here love to bash Metrotown.

It's just one man's opinion. A developer who happens not to be building anything in the Metrotown area....... coincidentally.

A lot more "successful" and bigger developers currently have projects going in the area so they probably see it differently from him.
......along with the 60-80,000 people who just happen to live in the "unliveable" area.

[Lexus]

Originally Posted by Spr0ckets

You just knew that that was going to show up here with how people on here love to bash Metrotown.

It's just one man's opinion. A developer who happens not to be building anything in the Metrotown area....... coincidentally.

A lot more "successful" and bigger developers currently have projects going in the area so they probably see it differently from him.
......along with the 60-80,000 people who just happen to live in the "unliveable" area.

Burnaby Now is a shit news outlet

[Changing City]

Originally Posted by Lexus

Burnaby Now is a shit new outlet

It's been around since the early 1980s. It's now part of Glacier Media who also own REW, BIV, The Courier, etc. etc.

[Vin]

Bob Rennie may have a point there:

If they take away the mall and turn it "inside out", this area will fail miserably. Leave Metropolis as it is, and plan for the commercial core anywhere beside it or within the confines of the Metrotown region. I don't get why pig-headed planners must always attack the golden goose. There are tons of shitty areas around the mall that should be upgraded to become more downtown-like.

One example is the landscaping under the skytrain guideways. If they are serious about making this area into the next downtown of the Lower Mainland, at least upgrade this area to tie Beresford Street to the mall area. At the moment it almost looks like Berlin wall used to sit there, dividing North and South Metrotown.

[Sheba]

Originally Posted by Vin

One example is the landscaping under the skytrain guideways. If they are serious about making this area into the next downtown of the Lower Mainland, at least upgrade this area to tie Beresford Street to the mall area. At the moment it almost looks like Berlin wall used to sit there, dividing East and West Metrotown.

Ah but who owns that land - Burnaby or TransLink? It's marked on the Metrotown area plan as a linear park and I know there were plans to expand the bike path (always where budgets get slashed for other projects) and add some plazas but who knows when that will ever happen.

I know there are no plans to add any roads to connect Central and Beresford as they don't want car traffic rat racing through the Maywood neighbourhood. So we're looking at an area for pedestrians and cyclists that isn't likely to change much in the next decade.

[Lexus]

Originally Posted by Changing City

It's been around since the early 1980s. It's now part of Glacier Media who also own REW, BIV, The Courier, etc. etc.

Corrected. I meant news

[Changing City]

Originally Posted by Lexus

Corrected. I meant news

Thanks! That's accurate in time terms. I'll bow to your judgement on the quality of the contents!

[jollyburger]

Originally Posted by Spr0ckets

You just knew that that was going to show up here with how people on here love to bash Metrotown.

It's just one man's opinion. A developer who happens not to be building anything in the Metrotown area....... coincidentally.

A lot more "successful" and bigger developers currently have projects going in the area so they probably see it differently from him.
......along with the 60-80,000 people who just happen to live in the "unliveable" area.

Bash Metrotown? And people don't bash on Surrey?

He's just stating the obvious that Metrotown will still be dominated by a suburban shopping mall vs Surrey which had even more empty tracts of lands that can be redeveloped in the near future.

[Vin]

Originally Posted by Sheba

Ah but who owns that land - Burnaby or TransLink? It's marked on the Metrotown area plan as a linear park and I know there were plans to expand the bike path (always where budgets get slashed for other projects) and add some plazas but who knows when that will ever happen.

I know there are no plans to add any roads to connect Central and Beresford as they don't want car traffic rat racing through the Maywood neighbourhood. So we're looking at an area for pedestrians and cyclists that isn't likely to change much in the next decade.

There you go, you just stated that the will to turn this place into a downtown is extremely weak. If that's the case, just leave Metropolis alone. Don't spoil a good thing.