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Old Posted Jul 21, 2021, 12:00 AM
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Absolutely INH, just a bit of a jab. This development is by far my favourite of their projects. Incorporating some of the old dairy factory skeleton and the common area courtyard are quite rad elements.

Also big fan of how they use passive housing.
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Old Posted Aug 10, 2021, 3:24 PM
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8/7/2021 by Joe, on Flickr


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I love these guys. Especially how they just get it done.
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I love these guys. Especially how they just get it done.
Doesn't look like they are adhering to the original design though.. seeing lots of changes.. I hate when people do that - just release a proper render so people can see what it will actually look like.. they did that with acclamation too..
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It looks exactly like the rendered design
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It looks exactly like the rendered design
...yaaa no.



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different entrance arched now as opposed to rectangular - different areas at the bottom where the parking garage is, different window locations etc.

Not sure how you think that is "exactly" the same but there are even structural differences to the last image...
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I feel like this has been said before, but never trust renderings - always consult the site plan drawing elevations if available.

This is an affordable housing project with tight budgets, so I don't know why they'd hire a rendering firm to produce marketing level renders for a project like this.
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Perhaps they found some savings by making a few changes. Which I would not begrudge, given how much affordable housing Indwell has been developing.
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to be fair the changes neither detract nor enhance it since affordable housing is kinda meh legoland/ikea builds anyways..

I hope they still have the patterned brick at least though - I just hate how it communicates "if you're poorer than everyone else you can't have a nice looking building" but whatever - some people might like this type of design..

Also I always laugh when they have all these fancy overhangs and tiered levels - the most common construction is a rectangle with load forces going straight down - as soon as you add jutouts and tiers then this overcomplicate the steel design and more point loads have to be added and so they just usually end up eliminating them after the calculations are done - which is why I'm not surprised at all the last picture had the roof jutout removed and that little tiered spot removed either as then it makes it harmoniously boxy for such a cheap design.
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Old Posted Aug 12, 2021, 12:17 AM
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You're going by the older design. Here's the newer which matches what is being built --

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New renders from Indwell, this time including the redeveloped former stables





The link has more angles
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Old Posted Aug 12, 2021, 9:27 PM
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Ah you would be correct - my bad I somehow missed those renders..

at least they made an updated render - I hate builds which don't let you see the changes..
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From Indwell's virtual video event. Looks like this was taken a couple months back, but a great perspective on the City skyline:

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We don't often see it from that direction. Thanks! (I copied your post to the Canada skyline thread)

That gap between Landmark and the King-James-Main cluster will look a whole lot different in a few years.
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A Spec story from today has lots of photos:


Hamilton’s last dairy resurrected for ‘The Oaks’ affordable housing

The former Royal Oak Dairy began in 1898 as a one-horse operation, this spring it welcomes its first tenants.

https://www.thespec.com/news/hamilto...-the-oaks.html

Jon Wells
The Hamilton Spectator
Thu., Dec. 16, 2021


The rich 83-year history of the city’s last dairy evokes images of horse-drawn wagons, and skimming cream off the top of milk in glass bottles delivered door to door.

But the recent history of the old Royal Oak Dairy building at 225 East Ave. N., near Barton and Victoria, is one of vandalism and squatters setting fires with scrap wood and plastic to cook their food.

A new era is dawning at the property, resurrected as “The Oaks” affordable and supportive housing project.

“The challenge of homelessness is all around us, and we’re happy an actual building is now there for people to live in,” said Graham Cubitt, who until recently was director of projects and development for Indwell, the affordable housing charity that developed the site.

Cubitt is now president of Flourish, a new not-for-profit housing company created by Indwell.

This spring, likely in April and into early summer, the first 108-unit phase of the project will open for tenants. The final 31 apartments open in 2023.

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Thirteen of the new units will be for Indigenous people, who Cubitt said are disproportionately represented in the homeless population.

The environmental cleanup of the site was extensive, he said.

“It was a complicated brownfield site, with the old dairy, factory loading docks, oil tanks, boilers, asbestos, and a lot of garbage.”

More damaging than detritus left by squatters was the impact of scrappers who ransacked the building over the years, stealing transformers to recycle the copper.

Cubitt said scrappers drained oil from transformers on-site, exacerbating the cost of the cleanup.

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Old Posted Jun 1, 2022, 7:16 PM
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Indwell is calling this community The Oaks

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it's amazing to see an old style brick and stone façade rebuilt - I had to check the other images to make sure it didn't actually exist before - beautiful - just goes to show we can still do that stuff if we choose to

I really like the stonework around the entrance with the cog spokes design - very good brick craftsmanship
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Old Posted Jun 9, 2022, 1:53 PM
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The brick façade is quite nice. Not sure if all the styles work without seeing it in person, but it's still head and shoulders above anything else similar we've seen.
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