510 Seymour | 48.2m | 10 Fl | Completed

[officedweller]

JLousa's pic shows it in context - height is comparable to the heritage Seymour Building:

Originally Posted by jlousa

[EdinVan]

Originally Posted by BodomReaper

Thanks for the update. My fear is that the wood won't be visible enough, so its main effect would be to add clutter.

It's like all these other buildings that have little touches of colour or texture here and there in an effort to break up the monotony. They're usually not enough to have any visual impact, and they often just look like an after-thought.

[officedweller]

This one's not too bad - better than the glass fins on Telus Garden and better than straight vertical columns of spandrel.

Here, there's a change in materials and a bevel in the curtain wall to accommodate it
- so it can't really be thought of as an afterthought.

[mcminsen]

April 30 '16, my pics

[Vantage]

Originally Posted by mcminsen

April 30 '16, my pics

Looks pretty decent there!

[Vin]

Originally Posted by officedweller

This one's not too bad - better than the glass fins on Telus Garden and better than straight vertical columns of spandrel.

Here, there's a change in materials and a bevel in the curtain wall to accommodate it
- so it can't really be thought of as an afterthought.

Just too bad it's so small it just gets lost in the crowd.

Here we get the tall and ugly, and then we also have the short and handsome.

[BodomReaper]

Originally Posted by Vin

Just too bad it's so small it just gets lost in the crowd.

Here we get the tall and ugly, and then we also have the short and handsome.

Also see: 980 Howe.

[Jebby]

IMG_9969 (1) by Yellow Fever @ SkyscraperCity, on Flickr

IMG_9967 (1) by Yellow Fever @ SkyscraperCity, on Flickr

IMG_9966 (1) by Yellow Fever @ SkyscraperCity, on Flickr

[mcminsen]

May 15 '16, my pics

[mcminsen]

Hmmm… big blank unfinished concrete wall facing east.



May 17 '16, my pic

[officedweller]

Originally Posted by mcminsen

Hmmm… big blank unfinished concrete wall facing east.

Better than windows which could spur future complaints of view blockage (even by tenants)

[mcminsen]

And/or that tells us that the parkade's days are numbered. Maybe in a few years a big tower will go in there.

[mcminsen]

Actually, that particular view of the concrete wall will be somewhat blocked by 424 and 454 West Pender Street after they get built.

Originally Posted by officedweller

2 11-storey rental projects by ONNI on West Pender between Richards and Homer - 2 separate lots - both currently empty it appears.

http://changingcitybook.com/2016/02/...pender-street/

March 2 '16, my pic

[officedweller]

You'd think so, but maybe not that tall.
The foreground block is the site of the proposed rental buildings.

https://changingcitybook.com/2016/02...pender-street/

Heights in the area seem similar.

Simultaneous post!

[Jimbo604]

Originally Posted by mcminsen

May 15 '16, my pics

Planning for future demolition of the parkade? Perhaps the city was envisioning a skinny building being built where the Cartems doughnuts building is. Either way it wouldn't be a problem if this dev incorporated the Cartems property.. right now you're just looking at 8 floors of lost density about the Cartems property, what a waste.

[Jebby]

Originally Posted by Jimbo604

Planning for future demolition of the parkade? Perhaps the city was envisioning a skinny building being built where the Cartems doughnuts building is. Either way it wouldn't be a problem if this dev incorporated the Cartems property.. right now you're just looking at 8 floors of lost density about the Cartems property, what a waste.

I don't see it as a waste. You could build a thin 8-story building.

Buildings like that are very common here in Mexico City.

https://www.google.com.mx/maps/@19.4...!6m1!1e1?hl=en

[vanciti]

Originally Posted by Jimbo604

Planning for future demolition of the parkade? Perhaps the city was envisioning a skinny building being built where the Cartems doughnuts building is. Either way it wouldn't be a problem if this dev incorporated the Cartems property.. right now you're just looking at 8 floors of lost density about the Cartems property, what a waste.

The parkade for 510 Seymour is designed with block outs that could connect it to a parkade for the building where Cartems is.

The reality is the owner of the Cartems site wanted way too much money to make an office project economically viable. Compared to now and then its even more so.

There are no immediate plans of the off-shore owner to develop the parkade (which is going to be awkward because of the Lumberman Building that the Parkade was built around.)

It was impossible to put windows on a side of a building unless it was owned by the same party as there would be zero spatial separation from a fire code perspective. The city was very picky on ensuring the east elevation had extensive reveal lines vs just a straight poured blank wall.

[mcminsen]

Thanks, that explains it.

[Vin]

Originally Posted by mcminsen

And/or that tells us that the parkade's days are numbered. Maybe in a few years a big tower will go in there.

That's one of the nicest looking parkades around downtown. There are others like the one at the Bay that should be demolished ASAP.

[officedweller]

https://www.instagram.com/thenextlift/

Pic of the crane using spreader bars to lift up the air handling units at #510Seymour