601 Beach Crescent | 166m | 56 Fl | Proposed - Page 6

vanman · #**101** Posted **Sep 7, 2018, 10:36 PM**

I hope the condo market corrects before this thing has a chance to start construction.

Feathered Friend · #**102** Posted **Oct 7, 2018, 12:23 AM**

https://rezoning.vancouver.ca/applic...renderings.pdf

https://rezoning.vancouver.ca/applic...renderings.pdf

The application is now up on the City of Vancouver's website.

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303 market residential units and 152 social housing units;
a floor space ratio (FSR) of 7.23;
2,094 sq. m (22,543 sq. ft.) of commercial space at grade;
a floor area of 41,755 sq. m (449,444 sq. ft.);
a building height of 163 m (535 ft.); and
442 underground parking spaces and 970 bicycle spaces.

The height remains the same, but the design has seen some refinements.

mcminsen · #**103** Posted **Oct 7, 2018, 12:58 AM**

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Originally Posted by Feathered Friend

https://rezoning.vancouver.ca/applic...renderings.pdf

Hmmmm... at least the roof line is no longer flat. And there's a real curve to the profile that matches the curve of Vancouver House. The clouds are the same, though.

May 14 '18, my pic of board at open house

Klazu · #**104** Posted **Oct 7, 2018, 4:36 PM**

Those are good refinements. It looks visually much more pleasing now.

dreambrother808 · #**105** Posted **Oct 7, 2018, 5:45 PM**

Ideally it would be a second Vancouver House, mirroring the first.

city guy · #**106** Posted **Oct 7, 2018, 6:28 PM**

the faceted curved balconies are a real turn-off for me...I also wish it wasn't trying so hard to have a dance with VHouse, creating those arbitrary curved lines...what would be so wrong about contrasting House with an elegant rectilinear solution?

officedweller · #**107** Posted **Oct 9, 2018, 6:14 AM**

I think the staggered window effect will end up similar to the "fish scales" at Canada House in the Olympic Village:

https://www.vancouvercondos.ca/canad...-way-vancouver

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...138106&page=95

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https://rezoning.vancouver.ca/applic...renderings.pdf

phesto · #**108** Posted **Oct 9, 2018, 7:37 PM**

I'm afraid to say it, but this project really needs to go back to the drawing board. It would be a somewhat interesting landmark tower design for a suburban town centre, but doesn't cut it for one of Vancouver's most prominent sites.

osirisboy · #**109** Posted **Oct 9, 2018, 8:02 PM**

This project looks great. I don't get the hate for it

LeftCoaster · #**110** Posted **Oct 9, 2018, 8:37 PM**

Definitely improved since the last iteration we saw. The cut in mid tower is actually pretty large, about 5m, so it should appear prominent from the bridge.

Anything other than a quality curtainwall system on this tower would be a huge mistake though.

Dimswitch · #**111** Posted **Oct 10, 2018, 2:07 AM**

Love what I see now

officedweller · #**112** Posted **Oct 10, 2018, 3:39 AM**

I think that the scale texture would be interesting.
Better than a flat curtain wall or window wall.

Feathered Friend · #**113** Posted **Oct 10, 2018, 4:41 AM**

Judging by the storm that resulted from this tweet, this proposal might see some strong anti-tower / anti-development opposition.

https://twitter.com/City_Duo/status/1048728420283113472

Metro-One · #**114** Posted **Oct 10, 2018, 4:51 AM**

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Originally Posted by Feathered Friend

Judging by the storm that resulted from this tweet, this proposal might see some strong anti-tower / anti-development opposition.

https://twitter.com/City_Duo/status/1048728420283113472

Don’t see much of a storm there, just the usual hilarious uniformed comments from the fringe.

PS, one of the funniest misinformed rage comments I saw recently was this one:

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Get out of my city. Take your ill-gotten funds and go back to Hong Kong

And that was from a comment section on “The Stack”

Just wrong on so many levels...

LeftCoaster · #**115** Posted **Oct 10, 2018, 5:58 PM**

I wish Hong Kong money was interested in building office buildings in Vancouver!

whatnext · #**116** Posted **Oct 10, 2018, 6:04 PM**

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Originally Posted by LeftCoaster

I wish Hong Kong money was interested in building office buildings in Vancouver!

Why aren't they, as opposed to building condos?

cov · #**117** Posted **Oct 10, 2018, 8:30 PM**

The renderings look subpar and dated. I certainly wouldn't mind having an office/hotel in its place.

Vin · #**118** Posted **Oct 10, 2018, 8:43 PM**

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Originally Posted by cov

The renderings look subpar and dated. I certainly wouldn't mind having an office/hotel in its place.

Agreed. An office/hotel tower here with a sky bar and restaurant at this location would be awesome. But then again you know how this City is with their inflexible zoning and OCP, so that will never happen. We need change.

Overall, the new rendering is way better, and would look good at this location.

city guy · #**119** Posted **Oct 11, 2018, 1:34 AM**

its looking junky in my opinion, full of meaningless curvy lines...and those faceted rounded balconies will look extremely tacky

it will be an embarrassing gateway building into our downtown

why don't they actually design facades that might use environmental performance and aspect as criteria (like solar shading bride soleils)

hearing the news its definitely time to start solving environmental issues and the city should insist that a gateway building like this is an exemplar of state of the art technology instead of a third-rate dumb-ol' graphic nothing piece of crap

city guy · #**120** Posted **Oct 11, 2018, 1:35 AM**

that should read BRISE soliels