RYSE (1950 Scott St) | 72m | 22f | U/C
 

Looks like a proposal for a 20-storey building at the corner of Scott and Clifton, in Westboro. It's a couple of blocks from Westboro Station, where a Buddhist Temple is located.

It's by EBC, a construction company, and it'll be residential.
Here are the application files: https://app01.ottawa.ca/postingplans/appDetails.jsf?lang=en&appId=__A81I52

http://kitchissippiward.ca/sites/default/files/EBC.png

Here is the link from Jeff Leiper alerting residents of the proposal: http://kitchissippiward.ca/content/20-storey-application-filed-cliftonscott

I like it. Some good quality stuff going up along the Scott Street corridor. I'm a little worried though that all of these new buildings, though quite nice individually, might feel disconnected as a group.

Rental or freehold apartments, I wonder?

its time for some master-planning in the Scott - richmond corridor. A real community centre - a walkable, public-transit focused core -should be planned for this area. Ideally centred around the large buildings in the area, and perhaps anchored against a new... public library? central park? (anything that removes those 2 subaru lots in the neighbourhood?)

I'd love to see the transit trench covered to create a linear park.

I believe EBC was the general contractor for Arts Court.

Pretty well executed IMO. This looks really nice too.

Wow. Westboro station is becoming a really big development zone...

I like! The building looks very interesting, nice that all these future projects have different height, not nearly as boring the Claridge buildings downtown.

Interestingly enough, I believe this building is designed by the same architects as the claridge plazas.

IMO it needs much more refinement - it feels quite messy at the moment.

Good to see my prediction of Scott Street becoming a new high-rise street is coming true. It means I'm pretty good at predicting the future. :P

However, I hope that as that continues the ground level/podiums are appealing, accommodate bus shelters, bike racks, and new offices and retail and restaurants along the street.

How about starting with sidewalks? :D

1950 Scott St | 68m | 20f | Proposed
 

Location:

https://i.imgur.com/ggHR9Kf.jpg


Updated elevation:

https://i.imgur.com/5FPy0KY.jpg


Updated renderings:

https://i.imgur.com/E7IDXte.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/OkDv0bm.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/siRITs1.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/eGuz4pV.png

https://i.imgur.com/cSAzc5b.png

Oh that's better - more aligned with blah and boring Ottawa :shrug:

The design is sort of growing on me, although I wish they had kept the different panelling as in the original design. The tower is a bit plain. The architecture firm NEUF architectes has work in Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa. I really like their project called Solstice for Montreal, but unfortunately they decided the Andaz Hotel in the Byward Market.

Solstice
https://www.neufarchitectes.com/data/projets-11764-solstice-09.jpg

https://www.neufarchitectes.com/data/projets-11764-solstice-07-a.jpg

Why do developers and architects propose and great projects in other cities but do nothing but bland or even crap in Ottawa?

I was thinking something similar to this just today. Ottawa seems to get a lot of ugly buildings proposed or built when there is such an opportunity to something much, much better.

Look at Westgate and Travelodge on Carling. There is a lot of available land there and adjacent to those properties to create a forward-thinking, innovative project consisting of multiple buildings that could rejuvenate that part of Ottawa. Merivale in that section should be redone and redeveloped as a traditional main street, as opposed to a student series of buildings with retail. But both Westgate and Travelodge proposals were designed by Roderick Lahey Architects with the same lazy blocky, grey brick highrise buildings (where one side is a mirror of the other)... I also take issue with a lot of RLA's buildings, actually...

Is this because most of the architecture firms are established in doing buildings in such a way that are cheaply done for developers? Is it because we don't have enough money or "competition" to warrant doing great buildings? We could be doing so much better than this...

I checked out the Kitchissippi Ward Newsletter posting about this project, and was excited that they'll be building 3-bedroom units!!!! 9 of them, in fact. They will have 141 units, but 148 car parking spots for residents, with an additional 13 for visitors, as well as 81 bike parking spots. I think that's a bit high considering how close it is to the Westboro transit station (it should be a lot less) and they should have more bike parking.

I received an email indicating they have updated the bike parking to nearly twice as much as before.