What's freaky is that the box on the Seymour side should be the same dimensions and at the same height as the Richards side box because the box is supposed to pierece through the office block - so the whole low-rise component of the project will be much much bigger than you'd think. Almost as tall as the main part of the existing older block on Seymour Street.
Officedweller, did you once post a photo of the Telus atrium addition depicting multi-coloured LED lights existing within the curtain wall glass on the north east corner of Robson and Seymour?
Hopefully Telus will be more diligent with the upkeep of the LED lights on the new tower than it has been with the LED light display on the William Farrell Building renovation (the added curtain wall has coloured LEDs that shine inwards to the older building, but they only operated for about a year after the reno).
You can see them shining pink in this shot from the PerkinsWill website (they changed colours):
The office portion feels a lot more massive in person than the small squat building it looked like in the renders.
Does anyone know why they've let the residential portion be so far behind? Is it a cheap source of financing? An optimization of planning to use a smaller construction team?
The office portion feels a lot more massive in person than the small squat building it looked like in the renders.
Does anyone know why they've let the residential portion be so far behind? Is it a cheap source of financing? An optimization of planning to use a smaller construction team?
Maybe they want the office work to be done well before people might move in? I know they phased the Brewery District in New West in that order to shorten the amount of time people might have to live in an active construction site.
I wonder why the scaffolding on the Seymour side is different than on the Richards side? -
I guess it could be that the entire top part of the podium will be in steel, so it requires different type of support.
This project is getting great coverage, but here's still some more wide-angle love from yesterday. This complex is going to be huge when completed. It is really exciting to withness it in person.
I'm curious, what is supporting the big steel box? I presume it is anchored somehow, but there is the illusion of it being attached to nothing at all. How can the thin concrete floors support it?
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With the cantilever, the forces may simply focus back into the face of the tower (i.e. rotating around the attachment points at the top of the box - like when you hang a cabinet, the main concern is that the top anchors don't pull out of the wall, not that they support weight vertically)
One of the things about this project I'm most looking forward to is the big TV screen. I notice in the renders, posted at the top of this page, don't show it. Will it be transparent during the day, or is that just the way the model is? Or is the inclusion of the screen not really concrete?
from an article about the Glowbal's expansion plans;
'Much of Glowbal’s near-term growth will be tied to the $750-million Telus Garden office-residential-retail development, scheduled for completion at Robson and Richards by 2015. Glowbal will open a casual market restaurant in the complex late next year. Shortly after that, it will open anew 15,000-square-foot flagship restaurant with 300 indoor seats and a 150-seat patio in Telus garden. It will bookend that with a cocktail lounge by late 2015"
So... three restaurants in Telus Garden all with the same owner? I like Glowball well enough, but this sounds like a recipe for disaster. Will the menus all have the same items with different names and prices?
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