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Old Posted Mar 6, 2013, 11:47 PM
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Wow can't believe I only just discovered this forum!

They've been working on it for several months, but only in the last week have they started taking it down.

Each picture was roughly taken a day apart, so it's slow going.









     
     
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Old Posted Mar 7, 2013, 3:43 AM
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Thank you and welcome to the forum SkyMatt!


That's a neat view you've got of this project, do keep us updated as construction goes along.
     
     
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Old Posted Mar 7, 2013, 5:55 AM
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Welcome SkyMatt and thanks for your pictures!

I was unaware that they were actually demolishing the building. I guess that they will just be keeping the facade on Dowd Street. Not really a huge loss considering how great this project looks!
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Old Posted Mar 7, 2013, 6:07 AM
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Obviously it would have been great if they kept the whole building. I really love these early 20th century red bricked factories, usually 5-6 floors high.

I actually would have preferred a scenario where they would have built extra floors on the heritage buildings (like they did with two neighbouring buildings) and built the tower on the large parkinglot right next to it.


BUT I like this project as is too. Let's hope the other 3 karl Fischer projects (Victoire, TOM, Point zero) get going soon.
     
     
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Old Posted Apr 22, 2013, 2:41 PM
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Strange new rendering scooped up by mtlmtl on mtlurb. I notice three departures from the original design:

a)The tower is widened to Bleury stret
b)The 5 storey brick building has a floor added on top instead of being used as a podium.
c)I count 19 floors instead of 17.

     
     
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Strange new rendering scooped up by mtlmtl on mtlurb. I notice three departures from the original design:

a)The tower is widened to Bleury stret
b)The 5 storey brick building has a floor added on top instead of being used as a podium.
c)I count 19 floors instead of 17.

Interesting. However, their website still has the rendering we have seen before and they still refer to a 17 strorey building. Let's see if they modify it.
     
     
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Old Posted Apr 22, 2013, 10:38 PM
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Difficile de juger à partir de ce nouveau rendu très flou.

Pour l'instant, il est moins séduisant que le précédent, qui jouait notamment sur le contraste entre la brique rouge et la dominante noire du nouvel édifice. On semble également avoir laissé tomber les angles aigus qu'on voyait dans l'autre. C'était pourtant intéressant.
     
     
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Difficile de juger à partir de ce nouveau rendu très flou.

Pour l'instant, il est moins séduisant que le précédent, qui jouait notamment sur le contraste entre la brique rouge et la dominante noire du nouvel édifice. On semble également avoir laissé tomber les angles aigus qu'on voyait dans l'autre. C'était pourtant intéressant.
Tu as raison pour ce qui est du design. Une chose que j'aime cependant est que la tour va s'élargir jusqu'à Bleury putôt que d'être confiné au milieu de la petite rue Dowd, même si ça laissait présager un certain cachet s'il y avait eu un autre bâtiment construit sur Bleury.
     
     
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Une chose que j'aime cependant est que la tour va s'élargir jusqu'à Bleury putôt que d'être confiné au milieu de la petite rue Dowd, même si ça laissait présager un certain cachet s'il y avait eu un autre bâtiment construit sur Bleury.
C'est vrai, je n'avais pas remarqué. Il est difficile par contre de concilier les deux rendus successifs sur cet enjeu de la largeur de l'édifice.

Sur les anciens schémas, et surtout dans l'espèce de maquette en gris donnée par Mtlskyline au message 3, l'espace à combler entre l'ancien projet et la rue Bleury semblait encore très vaste. Ça donnait l'impression qu'il aurait fallu une sorte de barre plus large que haute pour y arriver ! Or le nouveau rendu semble élargi, mais pas tant que cela...

J'irai faire un tour pour me donner une idée juste.
     
     
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Je pense que l'edifice n'est pas nécessairement plus large mais placer un peu plus a l'est. Au lieu d'être construit au dessus de l'édifice rouge, il est construit sur le lot a coté.
     
     
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Je ne peux pas dire que j'adore l'évolution de ce projet...



Je pense que sur leur bulletin d'intégration du bâtiment, leur note passe de 95% à 70% à 15%... Il n'a même pas de l'air de faire parti du projet.

J'aimais beaucoup l'original et si on lui ajoutait un 7-8 étages en plus, wow!
     
     
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Old Posted Apr 23, 2013, 7:16 PM
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En effet, intéressante "évolution", Une bonne dizaine d'étages de plus sur le premier rendu, ça aurait été magnifique. Le deuxieme etait Mies, j'aimais bien. Le troisième...what went wrong?
     
     
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Old Posted Apr 23, 2013, 9:36 PM
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Je pense que l'edifice n'est pas nécessairement plus large mais placer un peu plus a l'est. Au lieu d'être construit au dessus de l'édifice rouge, il est construit sur le lot a coté.
Voilà en effet ce qui aurait dû me sauter aux yeux : le projet s'est déplacé vers l'est !

Peut-être qu'il était techniquement trop complexe (traduire : trop coûteux) de construire en surplomb de l'édifice de briques. Ou peut-être qu'ils ont tout simplement réussi à acquérir un terrain additionnel, ce qui leur simplifie la vie...

Mais c'est tout de même dommage. Une consolation - il n'y aura pas d'espace de reste, non construit...
     
     
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^Oui, mais l'edifice a été démolit, maintenant il parait que c'était en vain...on va voir.
     
     
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Here is a better quality render (click for full size):


https://www.dropbox.com/sh/k9kkapor2...er1-2400.jpg?m
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I really love these early 20th century red bricked factories, usually 5-6 floors high.
Me too. they rock. I used to tour the almost abandoned area adjacent to the Dow planetarium back in the late eighties and again in the late nineties. It is great to see renewal, but I lament the loss of these old chestnuts.
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Old Posted Sep 24, 2013, 11:40 PM
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Here is a better quality render (click for full size):


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Here are a few new renders for 400 Dowd courtesy of Karl Fischer. Note that we are now up to 20 floors from 17.





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Shitty picture I took yesterday showing virtually no change for this project.


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A good one in a great spot. This area will be hot in a decade.
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