The Ultimate Vancouver Rumour Thread! - Page 101

Changing City · #**2001** Posted **Sep 23, 2020, 1:16 AM**

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Originally Posted by jollyburger

I guess 735 Bidwell is also included.

The studio is giving a virtual talk for the Interior Design Show this fall.

https://vancouver.interiordesignshow...october-6.html

They won a Melbourne skyscraper competition beating out BIG, OMA..

That's impressive. So they might be the winning designers here too. There's no application yet, as far as I know. The Bidwell strata is only 15 units, and also mid 1980s.

jollyburger · #**2002** Posted **Sep 23, 2020, 2:32 AM**

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Originally Posted by Changing City

That's impressive. So they might be the winning designers here too. There's no application yet, as far as I know. The Bidwell strata is only 15 units, and also mid 1980s.

But I doubt a strata sales process would involve a world renowned architecture firm. So maybe someone has been buying up all the units privately.

Changing City · #**2003** Posted **Sep 23, 2020, 3:29 AM**

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Originally Posted by jollyburger

But I doubt a strata sales process would involve a world renowned architecture firm. So maybe someone has been buying up all the units privately.

Really? You mean they don't send an architect from Amsterdam with a bag stuffed with cash, who goes door to door buying the units? (I hope I didn't imply the architects were the developer. I guess we can rule out Westnank this time ... maybe.)

officedweller · #**2004** Posted **Sep 23, 2020, 8:53 AM**

Nice find!

Here's what would be going:

https://www.google.com/maps/@49.2912...7i16384!8i8192

domusile · #**2005** Posted **Sep 23, 2020, 3:25 PM**

Not certain but I think Bosa Properties was buying units in this strata so could be them

jollyburger · #**2006** Posted **Sep 23, 2020, 6:57 PM**

Yeah Bosa makes sense from looking at their current roster of architects on their new projects. And there wasn't a huge number of units for a block that size. Just under a hundred with units around 600-700K

whatnext · #**2007** Posted **Sep 23, 2020, 7:33 PM**

Perhaps Bosa is relying on another Barclay St situation where they can just turn around and sell this for an overinflated price to some offshore developer.

jollyburger · #**2008** Posted **Sep 23, 2020, 7:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by whatnext

Perhaps Bosa is relying on another Barclay St situation where they can just turn around and sell this for an overinflated price to some offshore developer.

Again, not sure they would hold an architecture competition for that kind of situation.

whatnext · #**2009** Posted **Sep 23, 2020, 8:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by jollyburger

Again, not sure they would hold an architecture competition for that kind of situation.

Get the buzz going, throw in some bling to be eaten up for that crowd.

jollyburger · #**2010** Posted **Sep 23, 2020, 9:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by whatnext

Get the buzz going, throw in some bling to be eaten up for that crowd.

I mean architectural firms have better things to do with their time.

cyclinginvancouver · #**2011** Posted **Sep 23, 2020, 11:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by Changing City

Hi. Welcome! As I read the webpage, it was a competition project , so unless it won it may not become a proposal. The building next to their scheme appears to be 1668 Alberni, so they're presumably located somewhere next to that. It's possible that the towers proposed on West Georgia were the ones that won.

Cat's out the bag so they say lol

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/1700...reet-vancouver

rofina · #**2012** Posted **Sep 23, 2020, 11:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by cyclinginvancouver

Cat's out the bag so they say lol

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/1700...reet-vancouver

Beautiful development. It would be incredible to see it go up.

Credit Daily Hive article in Quote

jollyburger · #**2013** Posted **Sep 24, 2020, 12:09 AM**

Doesn't seem like many of the 1728/38 Alberni units have been changing hands in the past three years according to BC Assessment.

VancouverOfTheFuture · #**2014** Posted **Sep 24, 2020, 1:15 AM**

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Originally Posted by rofina

Beautiful development. It would be incredible to see it go up.

Credit Daily Hive article in Quote

anyone else get that kinda 60/70s vibe from it? wood, conc. glass. it reminds me a bit of that building at Willow & Broadway.

s211 · #**2015** Posted **Sep 24, 2020, 2:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by VancouverOfTheFuture

anyone else get that kinda 60/70s vibe from it? wood, conc. glass. it reminds me a bit of that building at Willow & Broadway.

I felt exactly the same way, seeing the first rendering especially. And then there's a lady wearing bell-bottoms in the foreground right of the first rendering.

jollyburger · #**2016** Posted **Sep 24, 2020, 3:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by s211

I felt exactly the same way, seeing the first rendering especially. And then there's a lady wearing bell-bottoms in the foreground right of the first rendering.

Bell bottoms are in fashion in Amsterdam?

dreambrother808 · #**2017** Posted **Sep 24, 2020, 4:06 PM**

I wouldn't classify those as bell-bottoms. Looks like anything you could find at Aritzia to me.

Vin · #**2018** Posted **Sep 24, 2020, 8:13 PM**

Beautiful renderings! Love the courtyard and shopping/office plaza concept: this is the kind of development that this city sorely lacks.

Plants draping over real wood won't work though. It would be a disaster. Faux wood cladding, however, would be nice. There will still be lots of power washing and maintenance. Overall, it does have a Scandinavian feel to it: not surprising given the Architectural firm is Dutch.

jollyburger · #**2019** Posted **Sep 24, 2020, 8:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by dreambrother808

I wouldn't classify those as bell-bottoms. Looks like anything you could find at Aritzia to me.

Flare jeans are an homage to effortlessly chic women everywhere. The golden age of denim is back with these bell-bottom favourites.

https://www.aritzia.com/en/brands/de...um-jeans-flare

goodcitywhenfinished · #**2020** Posted **Sep 25, 2020, 9:16 PM**

I do have to say though, if all of the Alberni west-Georgia Area proposals get fully built out it will be quite the area. I can’t think of another city besides New York or London which has that many “starchitects“ doing projects in such close proximity to each other.