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[officedweller]

527 Carnarvon

From GBL Twitter yesterday:



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[officedweller]

The iFortune development was unanimously approved by the Richmond Advisory Urban Design Panel last night. The development comprises of 115,000sf of commercial space on the corner of Anderson and No.3 Road, adjacent to a residential component of 85,000sf housing 86 units.
http://www.gblarchitects.com/audp-approve-major-new-mixed-use-development-for-richmond-city-centre/

[Vin]

Simple, modern and very urbane. Very nice.

The Richmond City Hall tower will get a sleek companion building across the street.

[retro_orange]

Nice, it's like a cross between the podium of Modello and the Italian Cultural centre redevelopment.

[Jebby]

Originally Posted by retro_orange

Nice, it's like a cross between the podium of Modello and the Italian Cultural centre redevelopment.

The Modello influence is very striking.

This looks great.

[phesto]

Originally Posted by officedweller

The iFortune development was unanimously approved by the Richmond Advisory Urban Design Panel last night. The development comprises of 115,000sf of commercial space on the corner of Anderson and No.3 Road, adjacent to a residential component of 85,000sf housing 86 units.
http://www.gblarchitects.com/audp-approve-major-new-mixed-use-development-for-richmond-city-centre/

That's something you don't see everyday: office space in the tower and residential in the podium!

[VancouverOfTheFuture]

Originally Posted by officedweller

looks nice, when will Vancouver get stuff that looks like this?

[Vin]

Originally Posted by VancouverOfTheFuture

looks nice, when will Vancouver get stuff that looks like this?

We all know why Vancouver isn't getting any.

[SkytrainCar026]

Originally Posted by officedweller

The iFortune development was unanimously approved by the Richmond Advisory Urban Design Panel last night. The development comprises of 115,000sf of commercial space on the corner of Anderson and No.3 Road, adjacent to a residential component of 85,000sf housing 86 units.
http://www.gblarchitects.com/audp-approve-major-new-mixed-use-development-for-richmond-city-centre/

Here is how the site looks today. Photo is mine.


Unfortunately I wasn't able to show a pic, but the east side of the site is already beginning pre-construction. They've cleared the sand and have machines on site.

[SkytrainCar026]

Photos of some developments from around Richmond. Photos by me, taken today.

Avanti (Polygon)




Storeys (a rental tower)



Storeys, as seen from Richmond Secondary School


Streetfront of Storeys


Cambie Fire hall no. 3 (almost complete)


Also, this site is for sale at the corner of Cambie and Garden City. Hopefully they'll build an office tower or something!




Any developments that anyone wants me to take some photos of in Richmond?

[officedweller]

Thanks for the update.

Richmond is the only municipality that has relatively tall mid-block podiums with blank walls that will butt up against their neighbours.

It'll be nice when they all get built-out.

[Sin_City]

Originally Posted by officedweller

Thanks for the update.

Richmond is the only municipality that has relatively tall mid-block podiums with blank walls that will butt up against their neighbours.

It'll be nice when they all get built-out.

Yup. The back wall view of Avanti is not very nice.

[Vantage]

Originally Posted by SkytrainCar026

Is it common to pre-load like that before building in Richmond?

[BobLoblawsLawBlog]

Yeah I've always wondered why they did that there.

[RichmondOval]

Yes, basically every commercial development does that in Richmond. What I have noticed is that the taller the development, the more preloading they need to do in terms of the height of the preload. The higher the preload, the more sand they can fit which is more mass to compact the ground underneath.

[Marshal]

All of the delta lands require preloading to densify the soils. The size of the preload is factored with the length of time it must sit on the site. The only way to speed it up or to use a lighter loading would be to use vibration. Vibration is not possible in places like Richmond because it would effect surrounding properties.

It is rare for vibration to be used around here, but it has been in a few instances. For the 10-12 story building (directly west from Seylynn Village on Lynmouth Ave.) they dropped a very large steel disc about 75-100 ft over 1000 times (all guesses) to compact the building footprint.

Preloading is actually very simple: soils can be compacted beyond their initial condition until they achieve a solid (i.e. rock) form. This though is well beyond what is needed. The cool bit is that soils do not decompact on their own, so when the preload is removed the degree of compaction of undisturbed soil will remain stable. There is no inherent 'spring back.'

[VarBreStr18]

I often wonder what that pile of concrete blocks for? It must have been there almost a year. I am highly skeptical though in the event of violent ground shaking during an earth quake, would it not loosen? After all they are just compacted artificially... not some natural solid rock form from prehistory.

[SpongeG]

well like we learned in high school geography during a quake richmond would liquefy...

[MBPMAN]

Is there a page of this? Found this snooping around their website. Looks to be some office / retail and a ~150ft tower.

https://anthemproperties.com/content/site_plans/0245_SitePlan.pdf

[SpongeG]

Originally Posted by MBPMAN

Is there a page of this? Found this snooping around their website. Looks to be some office / retail and a ~150ft tower.

https://anthemproperties.com/content/site_plans/0245_SitePlan.pdf

is that near the best western site? on north road.

I know they are closing soon and will redevelop with 6 towers.