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Originally Posted by vansky
i think u can design well with a smaller scale building, and make it look very...confident and outgoing.
however,some buildings in vancouver lack a general sense of "qi", the energy that emits from the style of the building, including its scale, to your internal psyche...this invisible thing is basically just a visual reaction to the design. look at some japanese designs, they are small but very consistent and orderly.
its' the way they lined up all those buildings so orderly that gave that feel of energy...
Vancouver got some really nice medium size buildings, I dont think it matters with size. you can increase visual impact iwth height too. If you like the chicago styles, you cannot find them here, simply because the streets are not wide enough to deliver a holistic feel of scale. the closest thing van comes to in terms of styles is probably being a more modest version of new york city. It's a 2.5 million city, and what do you expect in terms of scale. 8million?hahaha. i'd say when it hits 3 million, it'd look pretty big and impactful overall regardless of architectural size, because it can create that big city feel with numbers of buildings. the main concern is no longer scale, and it's not going into that direction anways. it's more about a dynamic mix of styles.
i think sooner or later this debate about lack of styles would be over with the new projects, that'd be a mjor step of this city, to get out of that depression. and maybe surrey woudl be the new hope for bigger buildings...but they killed one project the berezan years ago...
at least, give us one big corporate building, so to end the era..damn, reminds you of the canucks.
94, 2011~~ what's wrong with van, in so many areas. it's always standing up for something, but not reaching deep enough so to hit the paramount.
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Actually, if I may, The skyline in Vancouver is spectacular given the city's planners dating back to the 1950's have a strict vision of what it should be like and the impact on the natural surroundings (mountains, ocean). The "dull" light blue and sea foam green colour template is on purpose as to not "overpower" the beauty of the natural surroundings. The term "Vancouverism" is actually known globally as a successful urban planning architectural style.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouverism
However, recently the city has loosened its guidelines to accept a handful of "iconic" towers to add interest to the overall skyline - Shangrila, Trump, Bjarke Ingels, Burrard, Telus are those that have been approved as "interest" towers. Also, the available land to construct these iconic towers is very slim now. So, we should not expect many "new" iconic towers once the City Centre is "full". A few years yet of course.
Now that the go ahead for the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline has been given, expect BC (Vancouver) to boom in real estate once again as billions will be flowing into the BC economy as spin off from the shipping of Alberta Tar Sands Synthetic Crude Oil to [very thirsty as the world has peaked in oil production already and the Tar Sands are it for proven reserves] Asian Markets.
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