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Old Posted Feb 12, 2021, 4:27 PM
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Love how 601 Beach Crescent dances with the BIG tower across the bridge. And love the Senakw development. Not the best urban design at the ground level (towers in a park), but the tower designs themselves are really cool.

Is the Oakridge development on a light rail line? That looks pretty dense for being so far out of the core.
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Old Posted Feb 12, 2021, 5:40 PM
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^ Agreed Senakw is too towers in the park. From a recent Globe and Mail article:

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Senakw will also be quite literally connected to the earth. Mr. Kokalov, who now leads the firm that was formerly Bing Thom Architects, uses a provocative phrase to describe the scheme: “Towers in the park.” Usually that refers to a modernist trope of tall towers, surrounded by light and air, in a sea of green space. This idea rarely worked well in North America. The contemporary consensus in urban design, particularly in downtown Vancouver, is the opposite: Buildings should present a clear, consistent face to public streets.

The latter is generally a valid approach, but it has its limits. How would it work on a site like this, with oblong fingers stretching in three directions and a bridge overhead? In normal practice this site – if it was developed at all – would have a handful of buildings that are short and squat. Such is the case with a planned development by Concord, next door on the old Molson brewery site.

The Squamish have a different view, Khelsilem said. The Senakw buildings will cover only 10 per cent of the site. And the outdoor spaces around them “will be accessible by the residents and also by the general public,” he said.

Meanwhile stores, restaurants and the bike garage – reached by long, shallow ramps – will sit one level below ground. (Cars, very few of them, will get the next level down.) A series of courtyards will connect the first basement level to the open air and green space above.
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Old Posted Feb 12, 2021, 5:51 PM
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Is the Oakridge development on a light rail line? That looks pretty dense for being so far out of the core.
Yeah that's right. Currently there is a Canada Line station on the north east corner of the site that will be upgraded as well as a new direct link underground added.



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Highline | Office/Residential/Retail | U/C (Burnaby)




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Vancouver and Toronto are putting all other U.S. cities to shame with these amazing designs, bravo!
Lets not forget Montreal which is building just as much as Vancouver currently.
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City of Lougheed in Burnaby. Two of the towers are topped out, the two in front here will be the tallest, one on the left will be 55 levels which includes the retail levels.

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The Sydney in Coquitlam should start rising this summer.
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Rental tower - move ins said to start in June 2021
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The condo tower is further behind (City of Lougheed in the background)
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Vancouver businesses hope short-term SkyTrain construction pain will pay off with long-term gains
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Vancouver's Broadway subway project is now under construction, and businesses along the street are hoping they can survive the construction in front of their stores and restaurants to reap the benefits of the transit line's completion.

The construction project will extend the SkyTrain line from VCC–Clark Station to Arbutus Street along Broadway. The project consists of six underground stations. That transit route — one of the busiest in the city — is currently served the by 99 B-Line rapid bus. The line will eventually be extended to the University of British Columbia at a later date.

Catherine Ellsmere, co-owner of Odin Books, says that proximity to bus stops and traffic was one of the reasons she opened her store on the 100 block of East Broadway, near Main Street in Vancouver.

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Deloitte's new office downtown is nearly complete. It's turned out pretty well.

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Logo 1 of possibly 2 went up at some point over the last couple weeks. looks very sharp IMO.

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I like it. It's like a de-constructed glass box office tower. Interesting that they went with the mirrored glass on the cantilevered ceilings, but not on the vertical walls facing the tight, inward-facing corners. Probably has to do with reducing solar heat gain in the offices directly across, but it breaks up an otherwise fully-glass composition.
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The perforated metal panels on the vertical walls have built in trays with ivy, so the idea is that in a couple years they will be fully green walls.

We've all seen that execution of green walls is hit or miss though, so remains to be seen if it works.
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Ahhhhh, that makes sense. Agreed, the renderings of greenery on towers always over promise what the final results end up being. There was even an article published recently on ArchDaily on that very topic: https://www.archdaily.com/346374/can...of-skyscrapers
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