498 Drake St | 121.9M | 43Fl | Completed - Page 21

officedweller · #**401** Posted **Mar 15, 2017, 10:44 AM**

I guess they're just making it up as they go along?

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Originally Posted by mcminsen

March 14 '17, my pics

Not keen on the red leaves.
If they are going for red, the vertical stripes on 1107 Seymour look better - less of the background shows through.

They should try white vertical stripes.

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Originally Posted by mcminsen

March 14 '17, my pics

djmk · #**402** Posted **Mar 15, 2017, 6:26 PM**

IMHO, red leaves > red stripes

LeftCoaster · #**403** Posted **Mar 15, 2017, 9:19 PM**

I love the red/burgandy with the grey/beige, the colours go great together.

I hope they use the leaves. It's a but busy but the rest of the tower is so boring that it could use a fussy detail like that.

Klazu · #**404** Posted **Mar 16, 2017, 12:29 AM**

*sigh*

Why couldn't they just go with the original yellow. Keep it simple as the red leaves feel like an after-thought.

officedweller · #**405** Posted **Mar 16, 2017, 5:25 AM**

I don't think the red leaves have enough density of colour to register from a distance.
Or maybe the red isn't bright enough to "pop".

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Originally Posted by mcminsen

March 14 '17, my pics

LeftCoaster · #**406** Posted **Mar 16, 2017, 7:48 PM**

It almost looks like the metal mesh going up the Woodwards Tower. I'm still holding out hope it could look cool.

rofina · #**407** Posted **Mar 16, 2017, 10:37 PM**

What an ugly wall of a building.

Awful colour choice for a city thats grey and raining 7 months of the year.

Seems to me like the design inspiration was taken from the brown cinderblock wall in above photo.

Awesome that this gets by the City but 1500 West Georgia and others get punished.

Jebby · #**408** Posted **Mar 16, 2017, 11:20 PM**

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Originally Posted by rofina

What an ugly wall of a building.

Awful colour choice for a city thats grey and raining 7 months of the year.

Seems to me like the design inspiration was taken from the brown cinderblock wall in above photo.

Copy/paste this into 90% of Vancouver projects.

Delirium · #**409** Posted **Mar 17, 2017, 12:04 AM**

^ I tend to agree. I moved to Chicago last fall and while I fully admit that there's a lot of crap going up here, at least there's variety. Be it in materials, spandrel, glass colour, building shapes etc.
If you consider the standout projects in Vancouver, they all tend to be from outside architects (Jameson House, Vancouver House, Alberni Place). What is it with local architects and the copy/paste formula? Laziness? Even Toronto has significantly more variety.

The glass leaves here on the balcony looks like that orange construction mesh from a distance. Another fail unfortunately. Still love you YVR but on the architecture front, you're not exactly up there.

LeftCoaster · #**410** Posted **Mar 17, 2017, 12:56 AM**

In fairness you are in arguably the architectural capital of the world, not exactly a fair comparison!

And as for Toronto, you must have visited a different city that I live in, because aside from the legacy banking towers everything here is a box. 8,000 sf box for residential, 25,000 sf box for commercial. Ctrl-C, Crtl-V.

Vancouver has a lot to improve on, but it looks like the tides are finally turning. Sure there are still some bland ones, but there are 5 or 6 very different looking towers being proposed/developed, certainly far more avant garde than the city has seen in a long time, if ever.

Byron · #**411** Posted **Apr 24, 2017, 9:15 PM**

Looks like the crane is starting to come down today? (apr 24th 2017)

officedweller · #**412** Posted **Apr 24, 2017, 10:36 PM**

Have they installed a different white balcony glass (white stripe at the slab and maybe some frit above that)?
That looks different than was there before.

Byron · #**413** Posted **Apr 24, 2017, 11:43 PM**

they've changed the railings a few times... if you see on the left side of the picture though there is a normal balcony rail and clear glass that looks normal but great. I'm hoping they go with that and drop all the "trying to be different" looks...

officedweller · #**414** Posted **Apr 25, 2017, 1:07 AM**

Thanks.
I'd prefer something to make the building stand out, but they shouldn't do a different treatment on one side versus the other side.

mcminsen · #**415** Posted **Apr 25, 2017, 5:02 AM**

I took these pics today from the Granville Bridge. It didn't even occur to me as I was doing it that there was no crane on top. You can see it going down the right side, though.

April 24 '17, my pics

officedweller · #**416** Posted **Apr 25, 2017, 7:41 AM**

At least it looks like the mechanical penthouse is nicely hidden.

Byron · #**417** Posted **May 5, 2017, 6:24 PM**

Pics today May 5th, crane is almost down...

LeftCoaster · #**418** Posted **May 5, 2017, 6:38 PM**

They're really taking their time making a decision on this balcony glass.

idunno · #**419** Posted **May 5, 2017, 7:54 PM**

Could anyone tell me what is redeeming about this tower other than its slenderness?

To me, it's a grey spandrel slab tower with a boring concrete elevator core facing false creek. I like it less than most of the existing projects in Yaletown!

The Charleson is a little better with its glassier facade and somewhat interesting angles.

LeftCoaster · #**420** Posted **May 5, 2017, 8:21 PM**

Well it's slim...