Yikes, James Cheng wasn't joking when he said the buildings would be intentionally "unremarkable". It looks like he went out of his way to make them as boring and insipid as possible.
decent laneway treatment, very nice plaza and commercial treament on the marine and cambie corner, terrible work along cambie where there ought to have been a commercial wall. this artist space trend in vancouver belongs on a late night comedy show, like who does anyone think they're fooling with this? just ticking a box. hopefully some of the councilors look really carefully at this one and decide that they don't want a bunch of dead plazas and joke planning department quarter-measures and instead actually want to build a neighborhood. personally, in this hood, destined to be low-income types and atomized newbies, the design quality, unit size, etc doesn't bother me nearly as much as does the poor urbanism.
Is there some logic to the naming that I'm missing? I mean, yes you have to "brand" your projects so people don't just call it "the condo building next to the Starbucks" or whatever. But who in their right mind is ever going to say "Meet me at Em Cee Squared"?!? It doesn't roll off any tongue, it is not referencing anything in the neighbourhood, it has no element that looks remotely nuclear or physics-related, and therefore the name will probably be slightly embarrassing to say, and thus be quickly forgotten.
Ironically, because the given name is so bad, most people *will* end up saying "Meet me in front of that condo building next to the Starbucks"
Understood. But trying to tie the letters of the cross-streets to an equation...and what about the "squared"? And what about the unspoken "E"? It's too forced. Once the ad campaign is out of the papers, nobody will connect the dots.
who cares? In all honesty it will probably just become known as the MC complex or the MC towers.
That's my point - who cares with all these fancy names that relate to some esoteric concept unrelated to the building? As I said, it'll just be called something bland.
Ugh, already Marine Gateway is pretty bulky, but these two are horrible. I am all pro for any new towers, but they should try at least a bit with these... This is extraordinarily ugly complex, if anything with extra.
They had some event at the show room this morning. Didn't see any people at 8:30am when I drove by, but lots of tents and staff preparing for something. Some pre-showing, perhaps?
Real estate agent event, it was quite well attended, they were ~1000 agents there this morning. Sales open at the end of the month and they are hoping to match the one day sell out across the street. They'll have their work cut out for themselves but if anyone can do it it'll be Rennie.
Real estate agent event, it was quite well attended, they were ~1000 agents there this morning. Sales open at the end of the month and they are hoping to match the one day sell out across the street. They'll have their work cut out for themselves but if anyone can do it it'll be Rennie.
Well, its not like realtors have much else to do right now.
Real estate agent event, it was quite well attended, they were ~1000 agents there this morning. Sales open at the end of the month and they are hoping to match the one day sell out across the street. They'll have their work cut out for themselves but if anyone can do it it'll be Rennie.
It will be interesting to see if buyers step up and buy presales in this market.
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