The Georgia | 157m | 48 fl | Completed - Page 60

Canadian Mind · #**1181** Posted **Dec 10, 2010, 7:11 AM**

Nice angle... Though I suppose the building would look better if it was a bit wider. Will wait for the finished product.

Pic is great at showing off the table-top effect though. Where was it taken from?

jlousa · #**1182** Posted **Dec 10, 2010, 7:36 AM**

Great pic, you can really note the protruding box marking the old height limit. Also looks like from that angle that the Georgia will probably come to the top of the protruding box when you take into account it's roof. Will be pretty neat if it does work out that way.

officedweller · #**1183** Posted **Dec 10, 2010, 8:11 AM**

Cool angle - really makes Royal Bank Tower looks squat.

officedweller · #**1184** Posted **Dec 17, 2010, 12:31 AM**

Grainy pics by me through tinted glass on a cloudy day:

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ckkelley · #**1185** Posted **Dec 17, 2010, 12:47 AM**

Thanks for the update OD.

Wow, seeing the glass go up on the south side is like an electro-shock of excitement. At long last!

officedweller · #**1186** Posted **Dec 17, 2010, 1:39 AM**

The glass does remind me a lot of the glass on Delta Land's other projects - Carina and Callisto (Coal Harbour)

squeezied · #**1187** Posted **Dec 17, 2010, 1:53 AM**

Looking good

Locked In · #**1188** Posted **Dec 17, 2010, 10:09 PM**

Thanks for the pics OD - some good progress there, finally. Why do you think they went with spandrels for only part of that surface?
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The sun forced me to close my blinds today for the first time in weeks! Got some photos of Georgia in the sun first though:

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Anyone get a photo of the curtain wall in the sunlight?

SpongeG · #**1189** Posted **Dec 17, 2010, 10:48 PM**

when u are coming up the escalator from the canada line and you look out towards it - it looks really great so tall you don't see the top

officedweller · #**1190** Posted **Dec 18, 2010, 1:58 AM**

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Originally Posted by Locked In

Thanks for the pics OD - some good progress there, finally. Why do you think they went with spandrels for only part of that surface?

Anyone get a photo of the curtain wall in the sunlight?

It's in the renders - there's a partial stripe across the facade.
I don't see the vertical stripe (spandrel) though (which is really a good thing)
- unless it's just because they haven't reached the floor where it starts yet...

The precast on Howe looks good - in the shadows it looks grayer than (presumably) the same colour on the south side facing the courtyard (where it looks pinker (maybe because of the direct sun?)).

Sorry didn't get a pic at sunset - I was at a Christmas lunch.
Good Christmas buffet at Oru (Fairmont Pacific Rim).

SFUVancouver · #**1191** Posted **Dec 18, 2010, 9:43 AM**

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Denscity · #**1192** Posted **Dec 18, 2010, 10:03 AM**

That last picture is so sick

SFUVancouver · #**1193** Posted **Dec 18, 2010, 10:07 AM**

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Originally Posted by Denscity

That last picture is so sick

Thanks a lot. Here's one more:

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trofirhen · #**1194** Posted **Dec 18, 2010, 3:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by Denscity

That last picture is so sick

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What did you mean by "sick?"

Cypherus · #**1195** Posted **Dec 18, 2010, 7:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by trofirhen

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What did you mean by "sick?"

Sick is used as a slang term for awesome.

ckkelley · #**1196** Posted **Dec 18, 2010, 8:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by Cypherus

Sick is used as a slang term for awesome.

Apparently, he also could have used the term "dope" as well.

vansky · #**1197** Posted **Dec 19, 2010, 4:21 AM**

looks dense, but not a powerful look, come on vancouver, stop being childish and cowardly, do sth over 200ms

Locked In · #**1198** Posted **Dec 20, 2010, 5:03 AM**

Great view of the Georgia from there - thanks SFU.
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From the Granville Street Bridge - my photo, today:

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trofirhen · #**1199** Posted **Dec 20, 2010, 10:24 AM**

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Originally Posted by vansky

looks dense, but not a powerful look, come on vancouver, stop being childish and cowardly, do sth over 200ms

My thoughts almost exactly. A couple of snazzy 200m+ here and there would give the skyline energy as well as density.

BTW, isn't it pathetic the way everything (or just about everything) that smacks of CBD stops abruptly at Seymour? Too bad it can't be integrated (psychologically) more as part of the CBD. Oh well ....

phesto · #**1200** Posted **Dec 20, 2010, 4:00 PM**

For the height obsessed among us, I took SFU's photo and put a (very crude) 770 ft tower where the Burrard Building is now.

This would be the maximum allowable height assuming the new height limits are adopted and the 10% bonus for mechanical is retained. 10% would probably never be achievable, and the design would not likely be a trump-like box, but still gives some hope for the Van skyline.

I would place this somewhere between a 2025 reality and a pipe-dream.