Modern Architecture at its Finest; or Designs to Inspire Vancouver! - Page 33

SpongeG · #**641** Posted **Feb 7, 2019, 11:58 PM**

Something like Yagan Square would be cool on the waterfront in front of Waterfront station. Build up over the tracks and connect it to Granville Square, the station, maybe even Canada Place. Fill it with restaurants and retail right on the waterfront and have a nice seabus station integrated.

Yagan square opened just about a year ago.

This was built over the train tracks and there was an above ground bus loop which they built a new one that is now underground. This square helps connect the trins and the busses like a transit square.

I can't find a proper before but this shows how it was, the bridge was to get over where the trains are

this guy gives a good tour of it

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the roof has a cool light feature

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Migrant_Coconut · #**642** Posted **Feb 8, 2019, 3:19 AM**

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Something like Yagan Square would be cool on the waterfront in front of Waterfront station. Build up over the tracks and connect it to Granville Square, the station, maybe even Canada Place. Fill it with restaurants and retail right on the waterfront and have a nice seabus station integrated.

At the very least, that'd be a whole lot more practical than the MLB stadium.

SpongeG · #**643** Posted **Feb 14, 2019, 8:24 AM**

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SpongeG · #**644** Posted **Feb 17, 2019, 9:03 PM**

MVRDV breaks ground on albania's tallest building 'downtown one' with pixelated façade

https://www.designboom.com/architect...vMQw-V6Cb60aQQ

officedweller · #**645** Posted **Feb 19, 2019, 3:40 AM**

Good luck washing the windows below the overhangs.

alt0 · #**646** Posted **Feb 21, 2019, 4:11 AM**

Something like DS+R's design for a concert hall in London is what I hope to see in Vancouver one day.

(Source: Architectural Digest)

Mimics a peak, uses wood and glass, twists a bit like a few other new towers in the city... what could be more suitable for Vancouver? It would be a great way to pierce the sky without offending a view! Give it a subtle and unique lighting feature at the top and it would give the city an instant landmark!

Sheba · #**647** Posted **Feb 27, 2019, 5:36 PM**

China's 'horizontal skyscraper' attraction nears completion

Dubbed an engineering marvel, the highly anticipated Raffles City Chongqing project in China is nearly complete.

Devised by world-renowned architect Moshe Safdie, it measures a staggering 1.12-million-square-meters and consists of a collection of eight towers and a gigantic connecting skybridge, which is being called a "horizontal skyscraper."

Work on the $3.8 billion megastructure began six years ago.
CapitaLand Group

SpongeG · #**648** Posted **Mar 11, 2019, 7:35 AM**

they should do some kind of lighting on the Skytrain Bridge in new west/Surrey

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SpongeG · #**649** Posted **Mar 11, 2019, 7:56 AM**

Imagine the Vancouver granville square building with a light screen on it or some LED feature, just the north side even

Hangzhou, China

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Seoul, Korea

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Perth, WA

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Sao Paula, Brazil

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or a screen somehow on Canada place, like in the white space that curves a bit

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SpongeG · #**650** Posted **Mar 11, 2019, 8:46 AM**

imagine the possibilities with this stuff, like at metrotown station or New West, Lougheed etc.

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trofirhen · #**651** Posted **Mar 13, 2019, 2:59 AM**

https://d3exkutavo4sli.cloudfront.ne...us-condo-2.jpg

Sheba · #**652** Posted **Apr 10, 2019, 12:53 AM**

See 23 of the world’s most enchanting libraries - I'd post pictures from it but they're making it difficult...

Vin · #**653** Posted **Apr 10, 2019, 1:15 AM**

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yea it was nice, it has laneways in it and through it and beside it and full of cafes, restaurants, retail shops and a loungey looking bar up on about the 3rd or 4th level, people were all up there and you can look down at the street, house music was pumping out of the bar, pretty lively on a friday night.

there are some courtyard spaces and passageways

Nice! I love this laneway/retail concept: kinda similar to the ICE district in Edmonton. Unfortunately here in Vancouver we have jaded folks wary or street lawlessness in the lanes:

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Not a fan of the public plaza on Seymour, what's the point? Just another covered sleeping area for the homeless.

Like many quoted before: "We can't have nice things".

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https://d3exkutavo4sli.cloudfront.ne...us-condo-2.jpg

Oh, this one in Seattle looks way nicer and sophisticated! No comparison there.

Vin · #**654** Posted **Apr 28, 2019, 2:52 AM**

Let's look within the country for some inspiration.....

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Sorry for Telus Sky update overload, but it's worth it

https://calgaryherald.com/news/local...n-at-telus-sky

LeftCoaster · #**655** Posted **Apr 29, 2019, 10:24 PM**

Built by a Vancouver based developer, to echo it's project in Vancouver, with a Vancouver based artist doing the lighting scheme.

I'd say this is 'design inspired by Vancouver' to steal from the thread title.

officedweller · #**656** Posted **Apr 29, 2019, 10:36 PM**

Since it's Telus Sky, I would assume that Telus is funding the maintenance and repair of light show.
That would be harder in a near 100% residential tower like Vancouver House.

LeftCoaster · #**657** Posted **Apr 29, 2019, 11:15 PM**

Well top 2/3 of the building is resi, so I would assume the residential manager is on the hook for a portion of it as well.

SpongeG · #**658** Posted **May 28, 2019, 8:01 AM**

I liked all the elevators visible from or on the exterior of buildings in Tokyo.

This building housed wework in Shibuya

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older example

trofirhen · #**659** Posted **Aug 14, 2019, 9:36 PM**

https://brisbanedevelopment.com/wp-c...E-Facing-1.jpg

Changing City · #**660** Posted **Aug 15, 2019, 12:10 AM**

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Meanwhile, back in Brisbane, an 80-storey CBD tower is planned

Er, not any more it isn't. "Development application, lodged with the Brisbane City Council in December 2015, was approved in May 2016. As of 2019, approval expires in June 2020, Aria’s commercial manager Michael Zaicek told Commercial Real Estate that they “have no intentions for a residential development in the near future” [source: Wikipedia]