Winnipeg | Osborne Village & Corydon area

[Wpg_Guy]

Originally Posted by plrh

http://clkapps.winnipeg.ca/dmis/View...onId=&InitUrl=

So that building on McMillan at Stafford did get approved after the Property committee overruled the Community Committee? Is that what happened?

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/ou...573398081.html

As reported by the Sou'Wester (stupid name)

Correct

[trueviking]

not approved, just approved to move to council to be decided.

[Wpg_Guy]

668 McMillan Avenue Redevelopment
Location: 666 to 674 McMillan Avenue, Winnipeg, MB
Developer: Paragon Design | Build
Architects: Affinity Architecture Inc
Contractor:
Status: In Development
Media:
Description: a four storeys, (tapering down to three storeys along the eastern façade) 40 residential unit rental building with underground parking and parking off of the rear lane.

[buzzg]

Again, ditch the tin shed siding and it looks good. Having all that crap facing the side street would be shit.

[trueviking]

I mean. I support infill. I just wish this developer would build better looking projects. Everything they build looks temporary and cheap. Projects like this, across from beautiful old buildings embedded in a neighbourhood, it should be high quality. Especially at such a big scale.

[buzzg]

I think 530 River might be even worse IRL than it looked in the renders. Truly horrific architecture. Shame that Lount didn't get that property to make a third "House" to go along with Conrad and Dexter.

The layouts look horrendous too: https://rentwinnipeg.com/property/530-river-avenue/

[Wpg_Guy]

Originally Posted by buzzg

I think 530 River might be even worse IRL than it looked in the renders. Truly horrific architecture. Shame that Lount didn't get that property to make a third "House" to go along with Conrad and Dexter.

The layouts look horrendous too: https://rentwinnipeg.com/property/530-river-avenue/

This developer has teamed up with Affinity Architecture, together they are creating some hideous designs in very high profile areas. They are behind this new one, 530 River, 255 Bell, 227 Stafford.

You an submit your thoughts on 668 McMillan Avenue to: www.surveymonkey.com/r/668McMillanAve
info@landmarkplanning.ca

[robertocarlos]

Originally Posted by buzzg

I think 530 River might be even worse IRL than it looked in the renders. Truly horrific architecture. Shame that Lount didn't get that property to make a third "House" to go along with Conrad and Dexter.

The layouts look horrendous too: https://rentwinnipeg.com/property/530-river-avenue/

I wish I had a window in my closet.

[trueviking]

Have you seen the siding on 530 River? It’s screwed on. There’s an exposed screw every 8 inches or so in both vertical and horizontal direction. That’s what we’ve come to. Those are the buildings we are passing down to the next generation.

[buzzg]

Yeah it's honestly worse than the infamous WRHA building on Portage. At least that one is stucco and has bigger windows...

I guess the architect's "Affinity" is for piles of dog shit.

[Curmudgeon]

Originally Posted by trueviking

Have you seen the siding on 530 River? It’s screwed on. There’s an exposed screw every 8 inches or so in both vertical and horizontal direction. That’s what we’ve come to. Those are the buildings we are passing down to the next generation.

What a way to destroy the aesthetics of a once fine residential neighbourhood. Every single one of these IKEA new builds look more or less the same, like the Expressway Inn and Suites and similar type properties near the Alerus Center in Grand Forks, or worse. Bland and cheap and the interiors are depressing.

And right, the finished product NEVER looks anywhere near as nice (more accurately looks MORE awful) than the rendering.

[borkborkbork]

yeesh, that's an ugly building. looks like the kind of thing that would sprout up as quick-built "luxury" housing in a resource boomtown like fort mac

[Jeff]

At night when you cant see the crap quality of the new apartment building, the corner of Nassau and River does give off a good sense of urbanity and density with the building being right to the sidewalk at least.

[Hecate]

Honestly how do things like this get passed. The room layouts look like they were planned in five minutes with zero thought for spatial usage. How do these designers and architects get jobs?

[GreyGarden]

I've always kind of assumed that the rents that urban buildings can fetch in Winnipeg is just too low to make quality design and materials financially viable. Plus high construction costs. And so we end up with ugly buildings with small windows. Obviously there are exceptions and we've gotten some really nice buildings with good materials. I was walking past the new building at Westminster and Maryland last night, other than the fact that it comes up to the sidewalk, its dreadful - cheap materials, horrible execution and poor window coverage.

[plrh]

Originally Posted by GreyGarden

I've always kind of assumed that the rents that urban buildings can fetch in Winnipeg is just too low to make quality design and materials financially viable. Plus high construction costs. And so we end up with ugly buildings with small windows. Obviously there are exceptions and we've gotten some really nice buildings with good materials. I was walking past the new building at Westminster and Maryland last night, other than the fact that it comes up to the sidewalk, its dreadful - cheap materials, horrible execution and poor window coverage.

I would like to add that black stucco shouldn't exist.

[buzzg]

Originally Posted by GreyGarden

I've always kind of assumed that the rents that urban buildings can fetch in Winnipeg is just too low to make quality design and materials financially viable. Plus high construction costs. And so we end up with ugly buildings with small windows. Obviously there are exceptions and we've gotten some really nice buildings with good materials. I was walking past the new building at Westminster and Maryland last night, other than the fact that it comes up to the sidewalk, its dreadful - cheap materials, horrible execution and poor window coverage.

Yeah I honestly think it's just a shitty developer with a shitty architect trying to squeeze every dollar out of that property regardless of how it looks or interacts. Conrad House and Dexter House next door look fantastic, and the rents are about the same.

[rivercity]

Well it appears that Winnipeg Transit will continue to reduce the hope of South Osborne strip extending north. They purchased the vacant Imperial Oil site which is opposite the existing transit garage. From the City Clerk, Item 10 Reports: Intended Use: A Transit Customer Services & Administrative Building and/or a Transit garage and/or a Transit parking lot.

I'm sure its safe to say given Transits expansive new parking lot in South Osborne and neighbourhood complaints about parking that this site that could have been eventually a mixed use development will become a parking lot. I guess its better than sitting around vacant. Ideally, they move the existing transit service centre to this site and give it some street presence and then make way for a new build on that Site with river views.

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[esquire]

^ An office building could be OK. Between the huge transit garage blank wall, the Co-op and the poorly laid out MURB properties across the street, most of that stretch from the tracks to Brandon Ave is a bit of a writeoff for the foreseeable future.

[borkborkbork]

Originally Posted by rivercity

Well it appears that Winnipeg Transit will continue to reduce the hope of South Osborne strip extending north. They purchased the vacant Imperial Oil site which is opposite the existing transit garage. From the City Clerk, Item 10 Reports: Intended Use: A Transit Customer Services & Administrative Building and/or a Transit garage and/or a Transit parking lot.

I'm sure its safe to say given Transits expansive new parking lot in South Osborne and neighbourhood complaints about parking that this site that could have been eventually a mixed use development will become a parking lot. I guess its better than sitting around vacant. Ideally, they move the existing transit service centre to this site and give it some street presence and then make way for a new build on that Site with river views.

http://clkapps.winnipeg.ca/DMIS/View...onId=&InitUrl=

the iron law of winnipeg development: if any proposed development includes the possibility of use as a parking lot, the final use will be as a parking lot.