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Old Posted May 14, 2008, 4:03 AM
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my bad on the same post, lol.
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Old Posted May 14, 2008, 10:38 PM
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Here's an even better photo of it by ve1nsx:



He has a great gallery here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ve1nsx/
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Excellent Someone123, that ve1nsx guy is posting great pics daily on Flickr!

Its great when you don't live in Halifax 99% of the time.
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A shot I just took from my window in Dartmouth. I'll try and get another one when it clears up a little.

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(Credit: Ve1NSX on Flickr)

The brickwork is taking these guys forever. I don't like the brown box on top of the tower.
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Old Posted Aug 22, 2008, 5:25 AM
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I recently took this photo of Armoury Square:



It looks okay. It will be a bit better when it is finished. I agree that it's nothing special architecturally but I prefer the brick to precast and I like seeing infill in this part of the city. It also goes well with the Lexington:



I hope neighbourhoods like these continue to get decent mid-sized infill projects. Some more of these (of whatever architectural style) would be great for Robie Street and I would like to see a couple on Agricola (the McCully Worklofts will be one such project.. Armoury Villa would be more palatable if it were a simpler brick building).
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Old Posted Oct 3, 2008, 3:17 AM
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I've been by this project a few times recently and I think I can say with confidence that this is completed. I've already had it listed as complete for awhile on the compilation thread.

Can someone change the title to "completed"
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that beige box on top should be bricked, it looks terrible. otherwise, its a decent development overall.
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Old Posted Oct 3, 2008, 5:41 AM
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that beige box on top should be bricked, it looks terrible. otherwise, its a decent development overall.
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i am actually pleasantly surprised by how this turned out. it has the massing and shape of a taller building. with a quick glance, you might think it was more like 14 or 15 storeys. It sure beats that dismal st. james place.
when i was a kid, i dreamed of the commmons being ringed by high rises like central park. but come to think of it, the upper east side of manhattan has tons of ten storey building not much different in shape to this.
still hope they keep infilling though. and bump it up to 15ish.
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Anybody know how the townhouses have turned out? They were just putting in the common walls when I saw it last so it was impossible to tell.

I agree that it would be nice to see a row of medium-scaled buildings around the Commons. I wonder how long the houses next to Armoury Square (on Cunard St) will last?

Another "opportunity site" would be that car repair place south of the Armouries. I'd also love to see those hideous blue vinyl-clad houses taken out. There are some other stretches of houses that are quite nice, however. I noticed this house being renovated last summer:

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That car repair place has been bothering me for some time. A nice residential building would be great there.
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There is also the funeral home, parking lot and family home in between the welsford and the office building on the corner of quinpool/robie. That space would be perfect for another mid/high-rise residential development. Although in the case of the funeral home at least, I don't see anything changing there for quite some time.
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Here's picture I got today of Armoury Square but you can also see the improved density in that area over the past few years with Gladstone Ridge in the background.



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Thats a nice picture Haliguy

The North-End is really starting to come together.
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Taken today by me;

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Old Posted Mar 14, 2009, 6:57 PM
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Nice picture.

I think this is actually one of the better looking developments in the city, ugly mechanical box notwithstanding. Still wondering how the townhouses turned out.

I agree that the North End feels like it's "coming together" and the city in general feels much bigger than it used to, especially in the central neighbourhoods. There haven't been many large new buildings but countless holes have been filled in. It's hard to get more than a block or so away from a new building (last 5-10 years) in the city.
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