Transit oriented development in Canada

[vanman]

A few updates of TODs u/c in metro Vancouver:

Metrotower III Burnaby

Originally Posted by quobobo

A photo I took yesterday:

Chancellor Burnaby

Originally Posted by Yellow Fever

[IMG]http://i990.photobucket.com/albums/af28/Hongkongese
/downtown%202/IMG_3504.jpg[/IMG]

Oasis Coquitlam

Originally Posted by BodomReaper

Coquitlam's tallest tower at 39 floors - is wrapping up construction, and looks to be one of the rare occasions where the finished product looks better than the renderings!




Street-level looks decent too, though I wish I could say the same for the office building...

M2 Coquitlam

Originally Posted by BodomReaper

[Chadillaccc]

Another TOD in Calgary; University City



I don't have a construction pic, but the taller two towers are well-underway.

[vanman]

Vancouverites cannot get enough of tiny condos near skytrain stations.

First phase of Station Square in Burnaby, 269 condos sold out on Oct 20th.


MC2 in Vancouver just had it's opening weekend and of it's 230 condos, over 80% are already sold.


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[Chadillaccc]

I like the design of the first phase of Station Square.


M2 is to be the new tallest in Coquitlam, correct? The one with that wicked amenities area on the top floor?

[giallo]

^ MC2 is in south Vancouver near Marine Drive.

[Chadillaccc]

M2 and MC2 are two totally different proposals. He mentioned M2 in his last post, on September 1.

[giallo]

Oh, right. My mistake. Stupid Vancouver condo names.....

[nname]

Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

I like the design of the first phase of Station Square.


M2 is to be the new tallest in Coquitlam, correct? The one with that wicked amenities area on the top floor?

I think that's M3, which will be the tallest.

[vanman]

A look at the incredible density that is planned for the Evergreen Line skytrain stations in Coquitlam.

Originally Posted by officedweller

Couple of not seen before renders from the VIA architecture website:


http://www.via-architecture.com/proj...een-line-alrt/


http://www.via-architecture.com/proj...een-line-alrt/

[whiteford]

Originally Posted by MTLskyline

I imagine that the towers surrounding the Longueuil metro station were among some of the earliest examples of transited oriented development in Canada. Some of the buildings near the Metro are connected via skywalk.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Longueuil_skyline.jpg


http://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationP...il_Quebec.html

now that is icky looking if ever i saw icky looking. ewww
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[vanman]

Surrey's 3 Civic Plaza. A 48-storey, 541-foot mixed used residential and hotel tower that will flank a new urban plaza and city hall adjacent to the Surrey Central skytrain station. Construction is supposed to begin in 2013.

Originally Posted by Whalleyboy

Construction of the new plaza and city hall is underway.

Originally Posted by Spork

[vanman]

Westbank's redevelopment of Oakridge Mall in Vancouver which will include residential towers up to 45 storeys and be connected to the Oakridge-41st Canada Line station.

Originally Posted by Built Form

All pix by Built Form

From suburban hellscape........


To lush ecotopia

Originally Posted by SpongeG

renders from vancity buzz

Project thread here:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=202232

[LeftCoaster]

Looks great. Thanks for all the updates vanman!

[Innsertnamehere]

vacnouver really loves its mall reconstructions as of late. How many malls are being planned to be rebuilt into condo complexes now? 4? 5?

[Metro-One]

Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere

vacnouver really loves its mall reconstructions as of late. How many malls are being planned to be rebuilt into condo complexes now? 4? 5?

3 existing. But each time the malls themselves are being retained (and indeed expanded) not replaced with condos. Also the Brentwood one (the largest of all) also has a rather large office component, with 2 office towers up to 40 floors tall currently within the final build out scope of the project.

As for completely new complexes, there is also the Marine Station mall / condo / office project currently u/c (1 office tower, 2 condo towers, and a mall at the base beside the train station).

[Chadillaccc]

And Metrotown mall is completing its 3rd office tower this year, all over 100 meters tall. Metrotown won't be redeveloped any time soon as most of it is relatively new, they are just building a bunch of new major towers (one of them to be the fifth tallest in BC at completion) in the immediate area surrounding the mall. That area is already the metro areas secondary core, in a good 3 or 4 years, it's going to look like a major city of its own.

[Innsertnamehere]

Awesome! I am always happy when suburban malls/parking lots disappear with dense urban development. I need to get to the west coast one of these days.

[Chadillaccc]

The first two phases of University City in Calgary. The cladding looks pretty nice actually I love the coloured panels. The spandrel is to be expected.


UnversityCity by Chadillaccc, on Flickr

[vanman]

Cool thanks for the update.

[Klazu]

I think TOD is really one area where Vancouver is a clear leader for the entire country. Vanman has been doing a great job highlighting the ongoing TOD projects in Metro Vancouver and a big thanks to him.

Transit is nowadays the biggest key selling point for any condo tower in Metro Vancouver and so there aren't many 20+ floor developments in all Lower Mainland that wouldn't be TOD. One new tower on Kingsway is the only building coming to my mind that isn't next to a Skytrain station.