601 Beach Crescent | 166m | 56 Fl | Proposed

[Changing City]

Originally Posted by osirisboy

Huh? Wasn't this a public meeting?

The notice says 14th May, so not yet.

[osirisboy]

Originally Posted by Changing City

The notice says 14th May, so not yet.

I was referring to featherfriend's post and he said he will be posting info today

[Changing City]

Originally Posted by osirisboy

I was referring to featherfriend's post and he said he will be posting info today

Right. I understood that to be them trying to get information ahead of the meeting, but I guess we'll see when Feathered Friend posts later today.

[Feathered Friend]

Changing City's understanding of my words from last night is correct. Sorry for the confusion

[Feathered Friend]

Pinnacle Reveals 52 Story Granville Gateway Tower – Commits to 152 Affordable Homes

601 Beach Avenue - Once again it is a resident of a neighbourhood seeing development who has provided us, and SkyscraperPage, with this notice about a new application for Vancouver. The difference is that this time I followed up with the contact information, and am happy to be able to provide a few more details about the building.

https://cityduo.wordpress.com/2018/0...ordable-homes/

[Prometheus]

Originally Posted by Feathered Friend

https://cityduo.wordpress.com/2018/0...ordable-homes/

Thanks for the information.

[officedweller]

Thanks!

Personally, I think it's probably safer from an earthquake engineering liability perspective to build a conventional tower rather than a top heavy building, just for the sake of mirroring Vancouver House.

I'll bet the City could be exposed to potential liability, too, if it required Pinnacle to "mirror" a top heavy design to match the Vancouver House design.

PS - is the "roughly 530 foot tall, 52 floor tower" taller than Vancouver House (whose thread title lists 151.5 metres)?
Or is that height geodetic (from sea level)?
It would be nice to see a crown as a counterpoint to the flat roof of Vancouver House.

[mcminsen]

I just got back from the open house. I got pictures of all the boards and will post them all asap. Here are some to start.



May 14 '18, my pics

[mcminsen]

Here's the first batch.



May 14 '18, my pics

[mcminsen]

May 14 '18, my pics

[Metro-One]

So what is the official height of the tower?

Guessing 160 metres?

It’s elegant but was hoping for something more unique.

The podium plays of Vancouver House well from what I can see so far.

PS, thanks!

Edit:

So it says 163 metres, but is that the tower height or just the elevation height? (The same graphic states that Vancouver House is 155 metres, so guessing it is the elevation height and this tower is 159.5 metres tall?)

Also what is West One at 144 metres? (140.5 metres?)

[osirisboy]

I like it but all depends on the quality of materials used. If the windows are like Vancouver house it will look good. Also looks nice and wide which also balances out nicely with Vancouver house. Would like to see the podium closer to the bridge, it's set back far with a bunch of useless park space. Isn't that going to be retail along there?

[mcminsen]

And the final batch.



May 14 '18, my pics

[Prometheus]

Nice job, micminsen! Excellent contribution.

[mcminsen]

Originally Posted by Prometheus

Nice job, micminsen! Excellent contribution.

Thanks, I hope the boards are available online soon so more detail can be seen. I wanted to get a sneak peek up asap. It was fairly crowded so it took a while to get close to all the boards.

I like what I see so far. I was intrigued by the rotating of the tower and shaping it to mitigate the loss of view for the neighbours. I've been through that first hand when Atelier went up across the street from me. It had a major impact on my view (I basically lost most of it) but the facade facing me was curved so it was much less worse that it could have been. Also, the little consolation prize for me was that Atelier gives me enough shade to keep my apartment from getting too hot on days like today.

[Prometheus]

I fear they may have not done their due diligence regarding the city's general inflexibility and pettiness about height and could be misjudging the city's potential response to their liberal interpretation of the General Policy For Higher Buildings, which allows a building of "generally 425 feet."

[osirisboy]

We have to get rid of these arbitrary height limits. Thee is no rational behind them.

[Cypherus]

Thank you mcminsen for visiting the open house and snapping these pictures. It's definitely a nice looking tower and complements Vancouver House well. I like the how the tower incorporates a wavy facade (i.e dances up the tower) which flows very well, all without being too busy and contrived. Of course, no protruding boxes is an added bonus.

As for the height, I think it is acceptable for the area. Too tall of a tower wouldn't flow well with the dome skyline that Shangri La and Trump Tower created. If we are going to build a 700 footer or taller building, the corner of Burrard and West Georgia (The Burrard Building) is the best spot as sighted by the city.

[Klazu]

HOLY MACAREL!

[Feathered Friend]

A shame we didn't notice you, mcminsen. We did bump into LeftCoaster, however I had forgotten my feather suit at home.

On a serious note, there was a very vocal minority that were extremely opposed to this building tonight (views / shadowing), and it really spooked the city staff in attendance. I'll write more on it later, but for now I highly suggest those that want to see this move forward write in at [email protected]