Winnipeg | CentrePoint | Alt/Glasshouse | 20F | 21F | 72.5M | 70M | Completed

[Twoscents]

Originally Posted by esquire

It is sad that virtually nothing ever gets built in downtown Winnipeg without something being demolished to make way for it, as opposed to building on a site that has been a vacant lot for over a decade. There are some exceptions to that rule, but there are very, very few of them.
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Tell people to stop parking downtown and then downtown parking lots will be less valuable and more desirable for developers to purchase. My 2 cents.

[Wigglez]

They have begun work on the foundation of Glass House. The *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* will haunt my nightmares... 8 hours of it!!!

[h0twired]

Originally Posted by Wigglez

They have begun work on the foundation of Glass House. The *thud* *thud* *thud* *thud* will haunt my nightmares... 8 hours of it!!!

At my office it is more of a loud *chung*chung*chung*.

Based on the angle of your picture... are you an eHealth employee?

[1ajs]

steel ibeams instead of the concreat piles makes me wonder steel frame building?

[Wigglez]

Originally Posted by h0twired

At my office it is more of a loud *chung*chung*chung*.

Based on the angle of your picture... are you an eHealth employee?

I AM working with eHealth! You in the Air Canada building?

[Jack1983]

I haven't seen them, are the piles along the outside footprint of the building? If that is the case, the H piles will be for soldier piles. Which will be used to support the retaining walls.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_fo...#Soldier_piles

They did a similar thing for the excavation of the parkade.

[drew]

Originally Posted by 1ajs

steel ibeams instead of the concreat piles makes me wonder steel frame building?

Cast-in-place concrete structure supported on driven steel piles.

[bomberjet]

Ya, steel piles vs concrete are usually a factor of the geotechnical recommendations. Or whatever's cheaper.

[cheswick]

Parkade and glasshouse site:

[Biff]

It's unfortunate that this parkade has become so generic and bland. Its original concept was actually quite interesting and looked (in its appearance) to give Hargrave some colour and life. It sounds stupid, but I was actually excited to see the final product of the original design but meh on what was actually built.

[Flatland Metropolis]

As with the ALT Building they still have to put some yellow cladding on the building which will change that tower somewhat.

I am naively hopeful that they have some future modifications in mind with the parkade.

What can city council really do to ensure these plans for downtown parkades are less awful. If they have a building code penalty, would that really stop companies from taking the cheap road out. They would just pay the fee and cut their losses with these grey monoliths.

[Cyro]

Originally Posted by Biff

It's unfortunate that this parkade has become so generic and bland. Its original concept was actually quite interesting and looked (in its appearance) to give Hargrave some colour and life. It sounds stupid, but I was actually excited to see the final product of the original design but meh on what was actually built.

It sounds exactly how I felt when the initial renders were released, some form of excitement for a Parkade, if one can get excited for a parking structure?

But I'm still hoping, I believe you mentioned it earlier, that GlassHouse will break up that sea of grey once it's completed and add some contrast in the development.

[esquire]

^ How much could it cost to mount a few coloured panels to the parkade anyhow? I mean, I can live with the parkade not looking like its fanciful rendering, but I'm sure that even a modest amount of money would go a long way to doing something to liven up a hideously bland structure. Let's not have any more of this:

[drew]

^ maybe they will be adding some colour pieces to fit inside those horizontal depressions in the precast panels?

[JamieDavid Exchange]

First renderings:





Then the next rendering was:



And now:

[esquire]

^ OK, well... at least there's something beyond the precast concrete panels.

[bomberjet]

Those look like CRU's in the 2013 render, south end of parkade. I assume that's scrapped.

[esquire]

Originally Posted by bomberjet

Those look like CRU's in the 2013 render, south end of parkade. I assume that's scrapped.

Not seeing any latté-drinking yuppies closing deals on their iphones either... this just keeps getting worse and worse

[1ajs]

[Authentic_City]

Originally Posted by esquire

Not seeing any latté-drinking yuppies closing deals on their iphones either... this just keeps getting worse and worse

I though we all agreed those were just regular flip phones, not smart phones