The Exchange | 115.7m | 31fl, 13fl | 400,000sqft. | Completed - Page 18

TwoFace · #**341** Posted **Apr 26, 2013, 2:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by Hourglass

Feng shui -- real or superstition. You be the judge...

I will have to consult my rabbit's foot on that one.
By the way, the best units in most condos that have a podium are on the 4th floor as they have large private patios.

jlousa · #**342** Posted **May 17, 2013, 9:50 PM**

Still moving forward, it's going to the DPB on Aug 26th.

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Construct 31-storey office building above existing old stock exchange building.

dleung · #**343** Posted **May 18, 2013, 12:25 AM**

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Originally Posted by officedweller

The more I look at it - the more the tower does have a gothic look to it.
The Stock Exchange Building is said to have been in a gothic style, and I think the closely spaced mullions,
the articulation of the facade and the tapering of the mullions suggest a "gothic-ness" to the tower.
Note these narrow mullioned overhanging bay windows:

Great idea, terrible execution. Weird how the articulated mullions don't taper where they really should (at the projecting steps)

jlousa · #**344** Posted **Jun 18, 2013, 4:30 AM**

Here are the documents for their DPB meeting.

Notification Letter
http://former.vancouver.ca/devapps/4...tionletter.pdf

Site Plan
http://former.vancouver.ca/devapps/4...s/siteplan.pdf

Response from UD/Rezoning Conditions (warning this guy is 65MB)
http://former.vancouver.ca/devapps/4...conditions.pdf

Elevation Plans
http://former.vancouver.ca/devapps/4...ationplans.pdf

Shadow Analysis
http://former.vancouver.ca/devapps/4...owanalysis.pdf

Entry Level Plan
http://former.vancouver.ca/devapps/4...trylevelpl.pdf

Section
http://former.vancouver.ca/devapps/4...ts/Section.pdf

Landscape Plans
http://former.vancouver.ca/devapps/4...pedrawings.pdf

Think the large file shows a very interesting solution to the lack of distance from it's neighbour, will be interesting to see if this is replicated elsewhere.

Klazu · #**345** Posted **Jun 18, 2013, 2:04 PM**

Thanks for posting. The amount of time it must have taken to come up with all those plans can't be small. And all because of few neighboring residents...

queetz@home · #**346** Posted **Jun 18, 2013, 9:41 PM**

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Thanks for posting. The amount of time it must have taken to come up with all those plans can't be small. And all because of few neighboring residents...

No freaking kidding, eh? I can't believe the amount of favouritism the CoV has towards these extremely priviledged Jaimeson residents. I wish I'd be given the same kind of treatment by any municipality....

officedweller · #**347** Posted **Jun 18, 2013, 10:21 PM**

Thanks for posting!

I guess you can build the old MacBlo tower (1075 West Georgia) - with its deeply recessed waffle windows - pretty close to a condo tower!!

Metro-One · #**348** Posted **Jun 19, 2013, 7:25 PM**

Again, put me down as a big fan of this tower. I love it slight gothic look and how it blends in with the existing tower.

Again, Vancouver may not be building the tallest towers, but I feel we are building a very interesting urban realm with these developments and a far more refined street level than other Canadian cities. (my last time in Toronto I could not believe how boring and sterile the street scape was at the base of many of their big new tall condo towers).

easy as pie · #**349** Posted **Jun 19, 2013, 10:41 PM**

image from dpb document

Jebby · #**350** Posted **Jun 19, 2013, 11:22 PM**

Love that latest render

metroXpress · #**351** Posted **Jun 20, 2013, 12:22 AM**

It looks like floor space increases as you go higher up the tower, except the very top section.

dreambrother808 · #**352** Posted **Jun 26, 2013, 3:59 AM**

It's an interesting concept, nonetheless.

Murchie's closes June 22 to reopen at 815 Hastings St W.

The sushi place beside it is already closed. This must be starting up in the not-so-distant future.

red-paladin · #**353** Posted **Jun 29, 2013, 3:33 AM**

I am now firmly a fan of this design. It's grown on me with each new render.

Canadian Mind · #**354** Posted **Jun 29, 2013, 4:16 PM**

Myself as well, as the renders become better quality I get a better sense of what it would look like. It's a shame it won stand a head above most other buildings in the skyline, but it will be prominent in it's area for many years.

Just hoping they don't find a way to fuck the design with seafoam.

trofirhen · #**355** Posted **Jun 29, 2013, 11:03 PM**

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Love that latest render

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Originally Posted by red-paladin

I am now firmly a fan of this design. It's grown on me with each new render.

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Originally Posted by Canadian Mind

Myself as well, as the renders become better quality I get a better sense of what it would look like. It's a shame it won stand a head above most other buildings in the skyline, but it will be prominent in it's area for many years.

Just hoping they don't find a way to fuck the design with seafoam.

Count me in, too. Imagine the original design with the pointed tiangle roof and the zigzags

That would have been ok, but in a rather larger building, not in this location, all new, and not incorporating and thus overwhelming, a heritage building, such as is not the case here.

Sir Conga · #**356** Posted **Jun 30, 2013, 10:37 AM**

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Originally Posted by trofirhen

That would have been ok, but in a rather larger building, not in this location, all new, and not incorporating and thus overwhelming, a heritage building, such as is not the case here.

But have you ever been so far even as decided to use go want to look more like?

Infrequent Poster · #**357** Posted **Jul 1, 2013, 1:01 AM**

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Originally Posted by Sir Conga

But have you ever been so far even as decided to use go want to look more like?

For why not? It has, so it will. Do, because.

Architype · #**358** Posted **Jul 1, 2013, 5:00 AM**

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Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

Oh yes, and this thread info needs to be updated, it's 392 feet (119.4 meters) ;D

According to the building sections it will be 375 feet (= 114.3 meters), quite a bit shorter than it is shown in the diagrams, that's just a bit shorter (~ 4 m) than neighboring Jameson House. It will only make the second page in the Vancouver diagrams section, probably as the 35th tallest building in the city.

As for the design itself, I think it makes more sense than the first, as it's somewhat less random but also less distinctive in form, and unfortunately shorter, making no contribution to the skyline. I keep thinking it looks like a cabinet with the drawers not quite closed. Hopefully the details and quality of the construction will help achieve the design goals they have set.

trofirhen · #**359** Posted **Jul 1, 2013, 2:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by Architype

According to the building sections it will be 375 feet (= 114.3 meters), quite a bit shorter than it is shown in the diagrams, that's just a bit shorter (~ 4 m) than neighboring Jameson House. It will only make the second page in the Vancouver diagrams section, probably as the 35th tallest building in the city.

As for the design itself, I think it makes more sense than the first, as it's somewhat less random but also less distinctive in form, and unfortunately shorter, making no contribution to the skyline. I keep thinking it looks like a cabinet with the drawers not quite closed. Hopefully the details and quality of the construction will help achieve the design goals they have set.

... if only they could have designed it 7 or 8 storeys taller .....