CF Pacific Centre Developments

[Delirium]

here's a blast from the past (c.1972)

Photo by Vancouverbyte https://www.flickr.com/photos/vancou...430153/sizes/l

[connect2source]

Wow fantastic find Delirium! A testament to the original white monolithic EATON'S design that was beautiful and bold for it's time ...and a piece of pure modernism for Vancouver. Over the years the building gradually suffered from poorly designed additions and extremely poor maintenance during the Sears years which added greatly to public sentiment.

I wish the re-clad had been less timid and far more bold, a glass box with fewer 'pop-outs' and cutaways with a round rotunda preserved.. the Birk's building preserved along with it!

[EdinVan]

Originally Posted by connect2source

Wow fantastic find Delirium! A testament to the original white monolithic EATON'S design that was beautiful and bold for it's time ...and a piece of pure modernism for Vancouver. Over the years the building gradually suffered from poorly designed additions and extremely poor maintenance during the Sears years which added greatly to public sentiment.

I wish the re-clad had been less timid and far more bold, a glass box with fewer 'pop-outs' and cutaways with a round rotunda preserved.. the Birk's building preserved along with it!

Couldn't agree more.

[osirisboy]

Kind of topic but that pic makes me wish Granville went back to a normal 4 lane street. And I find the sidewalks way to cluttered and dirty. So clean and simple back there!

[Vin]

Originally Posted by Delirium

here's a blast from the past (c.1972)

Photo by Vancouverbyte https://www.flickr.com/photos/vancou...430153/sizes/l

See how clean the sidewalk of Granville Street used to be! No gum stains!

[Otis_Van]

Second-floor glass along Howe in a quick shot I took this afternoon. No comment.

[officedweller]

Thanks!

So the spandrel is to cover the concrete slab (but could have been mirrored spandrel).
That "typical" spandrel colour seems to be a "unifying" theme for the department store part of the complex.

At least the vision glass is clear!!
(but it's also not a light feature, which I was hoping for if it were frosted/translucent)

I expect that there will be a similar spandrel along Granville above the streetfront windows I posted last week.

Originally Posted by Built Form

Here are some pix of the model and floor plans.





Lit Model Pix


All pix by Built Form

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...&postcount=652


Pic of Granville & Robson by me today.
The gaps above and below each second skin bracket seem to have been filled-in.
Looks like aluminum cladding?

[officedweller]

More of the Howe side - pics by me today:

The spandrelled glass above the mid-block alcove differs from the spandrelled glass on the protruding part.
The alcove ones have vertical aluminum mullions.
The protruding ones have one horizontal aluminum mullion below the vision glass.







The internal gaps in the floorplate have been filled with steel and decking:

[officedweller]

Lousy blurry shot, but looking into the rotunda area today
- they don't seem to have squared off the mezzanine yet.
Pic by me today.

[officedweller]

Flashing is being installed on the parapet wall facing Granville Street.
The parapet curtain wall glass is also getting a backing, so it will not appear transparent.



Glass is up on the protruding Howe Street office section - no fins, no contrasting spandrels - looks good.
Scaffolding is also being installed for installation of the stone cladding on Nordstrom.



Strange that the structural steel for the upper protrudng floors has not been installed above that one level.

Lit Model Pix


All pix by Built Form

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...&postcount=652

[s211]

A little bird has told me of two very sizable deals being worked on for this project that would take down a lot of the vacancy in this project. Would truly be a good news story.

[nickbeaulieu]

vague rumours are vague

[connect2source]

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[connect2source]

Originally Posted by officedweller

Glass is up on the protruding Howe Street office section - no fins, no contrasting spandrels - looks good.
Scaffolding is also being installed for installation of the stone cladding on Nordstrom.



Strange that the structural steel for the upper protrudng floors has not been installed above that one level.


http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...&postcount=652

That's quite a pronounced design change from the model. I would have preferred the fins as it would have kept the overall design more cohesive and seamless. Seems James Cheng has an obsession with inconsistent design.

[officedweller]

I think the finless windows will provide the tenants with better views.

The protruding box at Robson & Granville is taking so long that I'm wondering what it will eventually look like. I'm even thinking that the second skin may in fact just be a framework without glass (no basis whatsoever).

[Klazu]

Update from today.

[s211]

Originally Posted by nickbeaulieu

vague rumours are vague

I would be betraying confidences to name tenants.

[spm2013]

...

[EdinVan]

Originally Posted by s211

A little bird has told me of two very sizable deals being worked on for this project that would take down a lot of the vacancy in this project. Would truly be a good news story.

If I were a company, I'd be embarrassed to have my offices in this chaotic, incoherent Franken-building.

[trofirhen]

Originally Posted by EdinVan

If I were a company, I'd be embarrassed to have my offices in this chaotic, incoherent Franken-building.

^^^^^It may be a bit incoherent, and it certainly isn't design-elegance ... but just remember what was there before.