601 W. Hastings | 108.8m | 25Fl | Completed - Page 3

officedweller · #1 Posted **Aug 31, 2015, 8:29 PM**

Nice!

Now they just need to tear down the PriceWaterhouse Building
and replace it with another tower with a tall lobby area to create a sightline to the CP Station
(maybe that's the eventual plan?)

s211 · #2 Posted **Aug 31, 2015, 9:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by officedweller

Nice!

Now they just need to tear down the PriceWaterhouse Building
and replace it with another tower with a tall lobby area to create a sightline to the CP Station
(maybe that's the eventual plan?)

The proforma for such a scheme would involve assumptions that can only be defined, shall we say, as being in the realm of unicorns.

jsbertram · #3 Posted **Aug 31, 2015, 9:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by officedweller

Nice!

Now they just need to tear down the PriceWaterhouse Building
and replace it with another tower with a tall lobby area to create a sightline to the CP Station
(maybe that's the eventual plan?)

And while we're at it, lets have Harbour Centre trim a wedge from their N.W. corner to reveal even more of the CPR station too.

osirisboy · #4 Posted **Sep 4, 2015, 9:48 PM**

Maybe he meant the grant Thornton tower

trofirhen · #5 Posted **Sep 4, 2015, 9:52 PM**

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Maybe he meant the grant Thornton tower

Which one is that, please? Do you have the address? I can find it on Google that way (and the Web, of course). Thank you.

officedweller · #6 Posted **Sep 4, 2015, 10:11 PM**

Yes, the Grant Thornton Tower. It was originally called the Price Waterhouse Building (before merger with Coopers Lybrand to form PriceWaterhouseCoopers).

trofirhen · #7 Posted **Sep 4, 2015, 10:14 PM**

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Yes, the Grant Thortnon Tower. It was originally called the Price Waterhouse Building (before merger with Coopers Lybrand to form PriceWaterhouseCoopers).

And it has sort of an open domed "garden? Smallish; dark glass and stainless steel trimming, a bit sci-fi perhaps as a building?

officedweller · #8 Posted **Sep 4, 2015, 10:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by trofirhen

And it has sort of an open domed "garden? Smallish; dark glass and stainless steel trimming, a bit sci-fi perhaps as a building?

The dome on the roof of the tower was supposed to light up as a beacon, but the City nixed that idea.
The building was very sci-fi.

retro_orange · #9 Posted **Sep 5, 2015, 9:55 AM**

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Originally Posted by officedweller

The dome on the roof of the tower was supposed to light up as a beacon, but the City nixed that idea.
The building was very sci-fi.

I seem to be one of the few who likes the PWC Grant T. building. I'll admit it was dated by the time it was built, it's still a neat building. The 80's did not reap many good pieces of architecture for this city, it's one of the better.

I do wish they built it about twice as big as it is now, its gonna be dwarfed once this sharp new tower is its neighbor. I am glad to see the underutilized plaza gone, it was dingy.

LeftCoaster · #10 Posted **Sep 4, 2015, 10:12 PM**

^ Try google, it's surprisingly effective.

And ya that would make more sense, must have been what he meant.

Bcasey25raptor · #11 Posted **Sep 5, 2015, 12:45 AM**

This building looks amazing. Build it.

red-paladin · #12 Posted **Sep 5, 2015, 5:48 AM**

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Originally Posted by Bcasey25raptor

This building looks amazing. Build it.

red-paladin · #13 Posted **Sep 5, 2015, 6:50 PM**

I don't mind it at all. Everyone complains about variety, and even though the style is 'cheesy' to most people, it was well pulled off.

trofirhen · #14 Posted **Sep 5, 2015, 8:38 PM**

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I don't mind it at all. Everyone complains about variety, and even though the style is 'cheesy' to most people, it was well pulled off.

What does "cheesy" mean, in the design context? I know it's kind of pejorative, and I hear it often mentioned on SSP Vancouver, but not sure precisely. Thanks.

osirisboy · #15 Posted **Sep 5, 2015, 9:43 PM**

Tacky, cheap

mcminsen · #16 Posted **Sep 6, 2015, 2:20 AM**

-trying too hard
-unsubtle
-inauthentic

There are various offerings of definitions of cheesy on Urban Dictionary but I found this one the most interesting as it gets into the etymology of the word.

cheesy

Low quality, cheap, inauthentic, crappy; fake. From cheese cloth, the thin cheap fabric used to drain cheese curd, and in the past sometimes used instead for proper cloth in cheap clothing.
(While feeling the fabric of a shirt on the rack) "This one feels a little cheesy." Hence any low-grade or fake product, tangible or not, offered to the public.

by TedC on Urban Dictionary

trofirhen · #17 Posted **Sep 6, 2015, 1:04 PM**

Thank you both for your assistance. (I wonder what the 'cheesiest' designs in Vancouver would be)

red-paladin · #18 Posted **Sep 6, 2015, 3:01 PM**

It would be outside the scope of this thread!

I love how this project will have as much plaza space as before.

trofirhen · #19 Posted **Sep 6, 2015, 5:00 PM**

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It would be outside the scope of this thread!

I love how this project will have as much plaza space as before.

Good reasoning about the scope of the thread!

Yes, I think 601 is worth going for, too. Have the negotiations been completed? Is there a tentative start date, or not?
The Hastings "canyon," though not too tall, needs to be enhanced, IMO, and 601 will be a cornerstone of that.

(I'd love to see the other half of that old Royal Bank tower added! Too bad the space is occupied....)

phesto · #20 Posted **Dec 16, 2015, 5:50 PM**

Hearing that demo work will begin on this one early in the new year and it will be full-steam ahead from there.