Winnipeg | Richardson Innovation Centre | 4 floors | Completed

[ywgwalk]

Originally Posted by Jeff

Awesome building of course.. just questioning the city's selection of yet a third style of decorative streetlights for the streetscaping along Lombard. You have the classic five-bulb lights across the street and throughout the district, then the new style along Lily and now these more ornate bulb covers. *headscratch*

TV would know, are the those lamps on the north side of the building City of Winnipeg or Richardson?

[trueviking]

Originally Posted by ywgwalk

TV would know, are the those lamps on the north side of the building City of Winnipeg or Richardson?

The ones on the north side are apparently the new standards for the Exchange District that will be phased in. They are super bright at night.

Check out the ones on the west side. They are the new standard for the rest of downtown. Really beautiful stainless steel LED. They are lower, more pedestrian scale. They also installed them along Garry Street.

[ywgwalk]

TV specifically answered that earlier on the page:

Originally Posted by trueviking

The ones on the north side are apparently the new standards for the Exchange District that will be phased in. They are super bright at night.

Check out the ones on the west side. They are the new standard for the rest of downtown. Really beautiful stainless steel LED. They are lower, more pedestrian scale. They also installed them along Garry Street.

[trueviking]

[Jeff]

Good to hear there's some sort of standard. Those contemporary ones should be installed all along Broadway proper and Portage ave. between St. Mary Ave. and Sherbrook to lighten the sidewalks pronto!

[Wpg_Guy]

[trueviking]

Fencing is down so you can walk right up to the building now. I was nervous that the landscaping would make it feel a bit office parkey, but it is good. The area is so harsh, it actually gives some nice breathing room. The corner being all hardscaping helps for sure. I bet the little pocket plaza will be well used. For an introverted building it helps it engage the sidewalk. Wouldn't do it everywhere but it doesn't feel bad. There is still a pretty strong urban edge. It is nice to walk around.

[Wpg_Guy]

Looks Awesome! Great job.

[trueviking]

the wood for the soffits has arrived....will add a nice warmth to it....its a red cedar that was sent to the states to be treated to be non-combustible. Wasn't sure what that process was going to do to the look but its nice.

[Andy6]

Congratulations. Looks really good.

[tree]

I really like this. No sheet metal in sight !

[BigG]

Yes. The cedar soffits will take this building to another level. It'll look awesome. Love it.

[buzzg]

Why are the new sidewalk lights on Lombard a traditional (Exchange-appropriate) style, but on Westbrook they're modern polished steel? How is the CoW so inept at streetscape design?

[you can't see it in these photos, but they're there when you go by]

[buzzg]

That doesn't answer why they're putting the modern ones in the Exchange, on the same damn corner.

[ywgwalk]

Originally Posted by buzzg

That doesn't answer why they're putting the modern ones in the Exchange, on the same damn corner.

You have to put the boundary somewhere. Seems like a perfectly reasonable place to me to separate Exchange from rest-of-downtown.

[trueviking]

Yeah. Lombard is actually the official boundary of the Exchange District.

[buzzg]

I just think it's a classic Winnipeg conundrum of blindingly following guidelines as hard rules instead of just using intelligence and looking at a situation because "rules" don't always make sense.

[Wolf13]

That thing is gorgeous.

[cheswick]

Originally Posted by Wolf13

That thing is gorgeous.

[trueviking]

wood soffit finally going in. Red cedar.