Alberni by Kengo Kuma (1550 Alberni) | 133m | 42Fl | Completed - Page 29

mcminsen · #**561** Posted **May 5, 2021, 5:48 AM**

May 4 '21, my pics

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mcminsen · #**562** Posted **May 5, 2021, 5:49 AM**

May 4 '21, my pics

Diegotheartist1 · #**563** Posted **May 5, 2021, 5:53 AM**

oooh, curvy!

Klazu · #**564** Posted **May 5, 2021, 6:11 PM**

Gem in making. Looks so good!

giallo · #**565** Posted **May 5, 2021, 11:16 PM**

What a beautiful beast.

rofina · #**566** Posted **May 6, 2021, 12:33 AM**

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Originally Posted by Klazu

Gem in making. Looks so good!

Agreed.

Hopefully the fit and finish is not a pile of sh*t like Vancouver House.

Pretty from afar, but far from pretty.

unpermitted_variance · #**567** Posted **May 6, 2021, 5:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by rofina

Hopefully the fit and finish is not a pile of sh*t like Vancouver House.

Pretty from afar, but far from pretty.

I'm somewhat worried about that with this project. The cladding doesn't look very good up close in my opinion; that grey material is super dull. I do wish they had gone with a bolder color. Hopefully it will look cleaner in the end when the edges are done, because it also looks like a mess right now.

Even with shitty cladding, the shape alone still makes this one of the most interesting new buildings going up right now.

mcminsen · #**568** Posted **May 23, 2021, 9:51 AM**

Georgia Street views.

May 22 '21, my pics

mcminsen · #**569** Posted **May 23, 2021, 10:18 AM**

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source: https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showpost.php?p=9274591&postcount=11361

mcminsen · #**570** Posted **May 23, 2021, 11:08 AM**

Alberni Street views.

I love this building but sometimes it makes my brain hurt.

May 22 '21, my pics

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mcminsen · #**571** Posted **May 23, 2021, 11:22 AM**

Cardero and Robson Street views.

May 22 '21, my pics

mcminsen · #**572** Posted **May 23, 2021, 1:38 PM**

From an article at Vancouver Market.

“The design of 1550 Alberni Street is shaped by its environment. The 42-storey tower is carved by two emphatic scoops that form deep balconies furnished in wood. In both instances, the carvings create semi-enclosures that strengthen their relations to the street and to the views – to its urban and geographic context.

Because of the way the otherwise orthogonal tower is carved, its silhouette constantly changes, creating illusionary profiles of arching cantilevers. The reality is far more structured as the carved deductions are diagonally symmetrical, the lower portion helping to counterbalance the hanging volume above."

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Source:http://www.vancouvermarket.ca/2015/10/02/westbank-unveils-plans-for-1550-alberni-site/

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Floorplans.

VancouverOfTheFuture · #**573** Posted **May 23, 2021, 7:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by mcminsen

that space between the elevator core, and the curtain wall. does anyone know if that will be apart of some of the units? it looks like an orphaned kind of space. maybe a bathroom/closet/storage or just a void.

jollyburger · #**574** Posted **May 23, 2021, 7:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by VancouverOfTheFuture

that space between the elevator core, and the curtain wall. does anyone know if that will be apart of some of the units? it looks like an orphaned kind of space. maybe a bathroom/closet/storage or just a void.

Doesn't look like anything.

https://rezoning.vancouver.ca/applications/1550alberni/documents/6FloorPlans.pdf

mcminsen · #**575** Posted **May 24, 2021, 1:51 AM**

Like a moth to a flame, I was back there again today.

As seen from Nicola Street.

May 23 '21, my pics

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officedweller · #**576** Posted **May 24, 2021, 1:52 AM**

Could be balconies for adjacent units.

Zepfancouver · #**577** Posted **May 26, 2021, 6:25 AM**

Notice on mcminsen last update, they had a few table-forms remaining to be placed for the 28th floor. Manage to get there today when they were flying the last one.
Also noticed some finishing work on the balconies, thinking that can't be the wood panelling...It is the finishing wood work. It's not as dark colored I'd hoped it would be.