Winnipeg Construction VIII

[esquire]

Originally Posted by bomberfan68

Like the link you posted, it seems a majority of architecturally interesting properties are on the river and not necessarily on Wellington or in Tuxedo. Nor do Winnipeg's wealthiest live in the flashiest places. I think Hartley R. lives in Woodhaven on a few acres on the river. Chipman lives in Headingley. The ski lodge looking home at Handsart and Wellington may be one of the nicest homes in Wpg I think.

I presume you mean the one on the west side? The one on the east side of that corner is a little too contrived for my liking.

I kind of like the fact that wealth is spread out around town albeit mostly, as you point out, along the rivers. I find intensive stratification of neighbourhoods to be a little off putting...

[Tacheguy]

Originally Posted by bomberfan68

I believe that one is on Lyndale Dr in Norwood Flats which is a very nice neighbourhood that doesn't have properties change hands often.

Like the link you posted, it seems a majority of architecturally interesting properties are on the river and not necessarily on Wellington or in Tuxedo. Nor do Winnipeg's wealthiest live in the flashiest places. I think Hartley R. lives in Woodhaven on a few acres on the river. Chipman lives in Headingley. The ski lodge looking home at Handsart and Wellington may be one of the nicest homes in Wpg I think.

Some other neat ones that come to mind:
10000 sq-ft 100+ yr old brick home still standing on Roslyn Rd at Nassau formerly owned by French ballerina.
10000 sq-ft place on Dunkirk with a huge iron gate on a massive lot.
Home on Bishop's Lane in Chlswood on 5 acres.
Home on Ridgedale Cres in Chlswood on 9 acres, most of it forested.
Tarrow House on River Rd in Lockport.

Victoria Crescent in St. Vital is heavily treed, secluded, and feels like being at the cottage. That would be my first location of choice to tear down and build new.

Norwood has to be the most interesting and underrated neighbourhood in Winnipeg. River Heights gets the hype, but I would take Norwood in a heartbeat.

[bomberfan68]

https://www.google.ca/maps/@49.87278...8i6656!6m1!1e1

On the west side yes, as shown in the link above. Owners of Qualico I believe. And the one you speak of across the street is their kids and was built a few years prior. It does seem more homey and livable compared to this place below at a fraction of the cost! lol (20 pictures in the link)

http://globalnews.ca/news/2036587/wi...ng-11-million/

[trueviking]

Originally Posted by bomberjet

Maybe 35 stories was a bit much and would be better suited for downtown. That's where we want all the development to go.

But if the 35 storey tower went up right where the current one is being constructed, how would it be any different, besides the number of people? It's not right next door to a single family home, theres two other tower in between it and homes. No different. Shadows would mostly be projecting out to Chief Peguis on the north, not in your aunts back yard. To add, there's traffic lights at Whellams and Henderson already, including a McD's. So what about traffic?

The original tower was not proposed for the site they are currently building on. It was on the east side of the property near the homes, not near the river.

There is more to having a 40 storey tower, 30 meters from your yard than shadows. It wasn't appropriate. Where they are building currently is far better.

[trueviking]

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[Andy6]

Originally Posted by bomberfan68

I believe that one is on Lyndale Dr in Norwood Flats which is a very nice neighbourhood that doesn't have properties change hands often.

Like the link you posted, it seems a majority of architecturally interesting properties are on the river and not necessarily on Wellington or in Tuxedo. Nor do Winnipeg's wealthiest live in the flashiest places. I think Hartley R. lives in Woodhaven on a few acres on the river. Chipman lives in Headingley. The ski lodge looking home at Handsart and Wellington may be one of the nicest homes in Wpg I think.

Some other neat ones that come to mind:
10000 sq-ft 100+ yr old brick home still standing on Roslyn Rd at Nassau formerly owned by French ballerina.
10000 sq-ft place on Dunkirk with a huge iron gate on a massive lot.

That's the Reimer (of Reimer Express) house, I assume. I remember when it was built.

Victoria Crescent in St. Vital is heavily treed, secluded, and feels like being at the cottage. That would be my first location of choice to tear down and build new.

It's in my old neighbourhood and just about the nicest residential street in Winnipeg (feels like a rainforest). It didn't used to be uniformly well-to-do but it seems to be heading that way now.

[esquire]

Originally Posted by Andy6

That's the Reimer (of Reimer Express) house, I assume. I remember when it was built.

Is that the one just north of St. Vital Road?

It's in my old neighbourhood and just about the nicest residential street in Winnipeg (feels like a rainforest). It didn't used to be uniformly well-to-do but it seems to be heading that way now.

When I was younger it seemed as though no neighbourhood was inaccessible to the masses. Right up until the 90s you could probably find a home priced under $100,000 just about anywhere except new subdivisions or Tuxedo. That's changing... places like Victoria Cr. are definitely taking on a much posher air.

The flipside to that is the exodus of upper/upper-middle income earners from the northern parts of the city between downtown and the far northern suburbs/exurbia. There are streets like Tanoak Park Dr. and environs in Garden City that have nice 70s-era homes which look like they'd fit right in in Tuxedo, yet they sell at a substantial discount and (in my experience, from looking at listings) are not that well kept relative to their grandeur.

Of course, once you get north of the Perimeter, it's the same as it always was and there are plenty of big and pricy new homes in places like Pritchard Farms.

[bomberfan68]

Originally Posted by esquire

Is that the one just north of St. Vital Road?



When I was younger it seemed as though no neighbourhood was inaccessible to the masses. Right up until the 90s you could probably find a home priced under $100,000 just about anywhere except new subdivisions or Tuxedo. That's changing... places like Victoria Cr. are definitely taking on a much posher air.

That's the one at St. V Rd yes. In ten years of living nearby I only once saw the gate open and a car enter the property. (BMW 7 Series no surprise) For a long time I thought it was a small riverfront condo building until they bought a house next door, tore it down, expanded their home and land, and put up a taller wall blocking the new addition. You can tell just by the trees they have been there for about 40 years now.


True enough. Even Lindenwoods had very basic places along with the posh ones on the lake streets like Shoreline, Shorecrest, and Queen's Park. Then came Linden Ridge with its nice homes backing on to its fake lake. But Linden Ridge always seemed like a bad location being bordered by Waverley, McGillivray, Chevrier, etc. Near Victoria Cres on the other side of Bishop Grandin, River Pointe has been around for 20+ years with some new development in the last few, but it always seemed slightly harder to get into it. And while many houses there now need updating it still seems less generic as Linden Woods and Whyte Ridge do. Some lake streets in Royalwood like Eastoak have 1.5 million dollar homes as well.

[Bluenote]

Speaking of cool builds. This is my future neighbours home.

http://www.1x1architecture.ca/Dunkirk-Residence


They bought the lot and the empty lot beside it. Tore down the old house. $450k later and are building this. It's at the second story already. Amazing place. But $2 million is a lot lol

[bomberfan68]

I drove by that one when it was just a hole and some steel beams. A good example of buying into an established neighbourhood rather than Bridgewater and building what you want. Judging by the minimal windows on the front of the house, they are perhaps going for the same effect as the new house going up on Wellington spoken about earlier. Lots of windows in the rear to capture river, pool, and yard views from anywhere in the house.

The cubic structure and glass walls of your future neighbour's place reminds me a lot of this new build on Wellington 4 doors east of the one that burned.
http://www.h5architecture.ca/projects/945.html
https://www.google.ca/maps/@49.87549...8i6656!6m1!1e1

[Andy6]

Originally Posted by bomberfan68

That's the one at St. V Rd yes. In ten years of living nearby I only once saw the gate open and a car enter the property. (BMW 7 Series no surprise) For a long time I thought it was a small riverfront condo building until they bought a house next door, tore it down, expanded their home and land, and put up a taller wall blocking the new addition. You can tell just by the trees they have been there for about 40 years now.

Yes it would have been around 1977, I'd guess. He planted dozens of little spruce trees. Supposedly the place had a swimming pool on the top floor.

[Andy6]

Originally Posted by Bluenote

Speaking of cool builds. This is my future neighbours home.

http://www.1x1architecture.ca/Dunkirk-Residence


They bought the lot and the empty lot beside it. Tore down the old house. $450k later and are building this. It's at the second story already. Amazing place. But $2 million is a lot lol

It does look a lot like the Canoe Club.

[cheswick]

Since the topic has turned a bit to house architecture. Does anyone know anything about the monstrosity of a house that's being built backing onto Leila by Mandalay? It has a skywalk between the two sections and doesn't fit in with the neighbourhood at all. Also seems to be incomplete for a while.

[bomberfan68]

Originally Posted by cheswick

Since the topic has turned a bit to house architecture. Does anyone know anything about the monstrosity of a house that's being built backing onto Leila by Mandalay? It has a skywalk between the two sections and doesn't fit in with the neighbourhood at all. Also seems to be incomplete for a while.

This "thing"??

https://www.google.ca/maps/@49.96396...8i6656!6m1!1e1

It looks like everyone involved with the design was drunk and/or dabbling in psychedelics. The back streetview is worse jutted against Leila. What a horrible location. At least on a few acres it would look slightly less hideous. Actually, no it wouldn't.

[esquire]

^ That looks institutional. Is that seriously a SFH?

[Andy6]

Is that corner of Winnipeg starting to get the giant multi-generational-family houses that are now common in Toronto's Indo-Canadian suburbia?

[1ajs]

Originally Posted by bomberfan68

This "thing"??

https://www.google.ca/maps/@49.96396...8i6656!6m1!1e1

It looks like everyone involved with the design was drunk and/or dabbling in psychedelics. The back streetview is worse jutted against Leila. What a horrible location. At least on a few acres it would look slightly less hideous. Actually, no it wouldn't.

holy crap thats insane and that suv is 180k new in the font drive u dont see alot of them around the peg but u do see allot more benz's lurking around wpg these days

[1ajs]

that house on dunkirk is interesting was looking at it 2 weekends ago as i injoyed a beer on a padio next door

[Andy6]

Originally Posted by 1ajs

that house on dunkirk is interesting was looking at it 2 weekends ago as i injoyed a beer on a padio next door

Beer? Suburbia? 1ajs???

[Ando]

Originally Posted by trueviking

That new house on Wellington where the nicest house in Winnipeg burned down is really disappointing. Its street face is a three car garage. It is oddly angled to the street. It's front facade is almost windowless and covered in standing seam metal. That firm usually does such beautiful work.

Yes. Had a close up look at it from just outside the gate. It's hideous. It's so garbled it's actually hard to look at.