Richmond Updates

[Vin]

The newer designs in Richmond make it look like a modern Scandinavian city.

[VancouverOfTheFuture]

Originally Posted by vanman

Not sure if this has been posted yet. Looks to be somewhere near the Olympic Oval.

N2W by Westgem.


http://www.gblarchitects.com/projects/n2w/

Video Link

interesting, that video doesn't work, and the link gets error 404.

[libtard]

Originally Posted by zahav

The insane thing is this block barely faces any residential really. It faces a park on two sides, the backside of residentail cross 6 lanes of traffic and no houses on the street itself, and then rural lots to the south. Almost no one is affected by it.

God I wish NIMBYs were blocked from this kind of public interaction. That's why I love when it is someone like the DND or First Nations that don't have to listen to the NINBYs and can do what they like. If only cities were the same

Everyone driving down Westminster hwy is affected by this eye sore. I don’t see the point of it. To use the excuse of the bog fire to warrant putting up the fence is a joke. Bog fires start naturally all the time, this one included. There are literally no trails, no one is walking around in the area. Why arent we erecting a 3 meter tall razor wire fence for burns bog in delta?

[VancouverOfTheFuture]

Originally Posted by libtard

Everyone driving down Westminster hwy is affected by this eye sore. I don’t see the point of it. To use the excuse of the bog fire to warrant putting up the fence is a joke. Bog fires start naturally all the time, this one included. There are literally no trails, no one is walking around in the area. Why arent we erecting a 3 meter tall razor wire fence for burns bog in delta?

its a military installation, the bog fire was started by homeless people camping out, and since no one is walking around the area then it affects no one. they should just turn it back into a firing range, like it once was. give those people something real to complain about.

[libtard]

Originally Posted by VancouverOfTheFuture

its a military installation, the bog fire was started by homeless people camping out, and since no one is walking around the area then it affects no one. they should just turn it back into a firing range, like it once was. give those people something real to complain about.

It affects everyone that drives by because it’s an eye sore. The military installation has been fine for this long without a 3 meter chain link fence, no point in putting one in now. And the bog fire started naturally.

[VancouverOfTheFuture]

Originally Posted by libtard

It affects everyone that drives by because it’s an eye sore. The military installation has been fine for this long without a 3 meter chain link fence, no point in putting one in now. And the bog fire started naturally.

if you're driving by, you should be focusing on the road, not on the fence on the side of the road. it has no affect on anyone really. and even if it did, military installation. that trumps anything else.

it is needed since there were a bunch of people camped out in there, on private property, on a military installation.

can you show me these sources saying it started naturally? it seems really weird that a bog fire was started by nothing when its a known fact homeless people camping in wooded areas cause fires... hmmmmmmmmmmm.

[teriyaki]

Paint it green. There. Now it blends in.

[libtard]

Originally Posted by VancouverOfTheFuture

if you're driving by, you should be focusing on the road, not on the fence on the side of the road. it has no affect on anyone really. and even if it did, military installation. that trumps anything else.

it is needed since there were a bunch of people camped out in there, on private property, on a military installation.

can you show me these sources saying it started naturally? it seems really weird that a bog fire was started by nothing when its a known fact homeless people camping in wooded areas cause fires... hmmmmmmmmmmm.

Show me a source saying it was started by homeless people. Did you think the multiple burns bog fires that started naturally were really weird too?

[officedweller]

Paramount

GBL twitter Feb 22nd:


https://twitter.com/GBLArchitects

[Marshal]

Originally Posted by libtard

Show me a source saying it was started by homeless people. Did you think the multiple burns bog fires that started naturally were really weird too?

libtard: As a general rule I don't read your posts, but in this discussion, you are bang on.

VancouverOfTheFuture: Your points are off the mark. Drivers should only see the road ahead? So much for situational awareness. So much for caring about what the city looks like past the shoulder. The fence is a bad reaction to a single event in a long history. An overreaction, or a stupid requirement imposed by some policy or insurance requirement. Barbed wire? It's ugly and stupid.

But, referencing internment camps, and the like? That's an overstatement.

I also think this touches a nerve because the citizenry tends to think of wooded areas that remain over time to be parkland or 'wilderness.' When they are mowed down or fenced with ugly chain link, people react.

[stump]

New River Parkway opening in Richmond this weekend close to Dinsmore bridge.

I guess all that industrial area and old River Road will become residential and a park over time.

https://www.richmond-news.com/local-news...-aims-to-ease-traffic-congestion-3519736

[vanman]

Originally Posted by VancouverOfTheFuture

interesting, that video doesn't work, and the link gets error 404.

Must've been taken down for whatever reason. The DailyHive posted an article after my post with screenshots from the video.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/nw2-richmond-development-mixed-use-community

[Spr0ckets]

Originally Posted by libtard

Everyone driving down Westminster hwy is affected by this eye sore. I don’t see the point of it. To use the excuse of the bog fire to warrant putting up the fence is a joke. Bog fires start naturally all the time, this one included. There are literally no trails, no one is walking around in the area. Why arent we erecting a 3 meter tall razor wire fence for burns bog in delta?

Originally Posted by libtard

It affects everyone that drives by because it’s an eye sore. The military installation has been fine for this long without a 3 meter chain link fence, no point in putting one in now. And the bog fire started naturally.

Sooo.....really, the only thing you're griping and whining about here is that you don't like to look at it when you're driving past it.....for like what? a couple of minutes?

Talk about 'first world problems'.

As someone else astutely suggested, perhaps a better way to occupy your attention span while driving might be to .....focus on the road?
I don't really believe that 'Scenic picturesque driving route' falls under one of those rights we're guaranteed. But I could be wrong.

I'm pretty sure there are far worse looking places that a lot of people have to drive past;... on a daily basis even. And they're able to get to their destinations pretty much okay.

I think you'll survive just fine.
I have faith in you.

[libtard]

Originally Posted by Spr0ckets

Sooo.....really, the only thing you're griping and whining about here is that you don't like to look at it when you're driving past it.....for like what? a couple of minutes?

Talk about 'first world problems'.

As someone else astutely suggested, perhaps a better way to occupy your attention span while driving might be to .....focus on the road?
I don't really believe that 'Scenic picturesque driving route' falls under one of those rights we're guaranteed. But I could be wrong.

I'm pretty sure there are far worse looking places that a lot of people have to drive past;... on a daily basis even. And they're able to get to their destinations pretty much okay.

I think you'll survive just fine.
I have faith in you.

Buzz off. This is a legitimate blight. A whole wooded area is being cut off with a 3 meter high chain link fence. It’s aesthetically painful to the eye. You want first world problems go hound people in the high rise threads complaining about the color of spandrel being used or the sky train thread with people complaining about the font used on a station signage

[Spr0ckets]

Originally Posted by libtard

Buzz off. This is a legitimate blight. A whole wooded area is being cut off with a 3 meter high chain link fence. It’s aesthetically painful to the eye. You want first world problems go hound people in the high rise threads complaining about the color of spandrel being used or the sky train thread with people complaining about the font used on a station signage

Like I said,...
First world problems.

The only difference between you and them is which color spandrel, font or people-barrier is more offensive to your delicate senses for the few seconds out of your entire day that you actually have to perceive them and deal with the ensuing emotions.

That you point out those other two examples - while not even realizing what you have in common with them, in terms of offended sensibilities and your "hurt" senses of perception - as supposed examples of what in your mind constitute actual "First world problems", is the height of acute lack of self-awareness if ever I saw any.


"aesthetically painful to the eye"

Wow.

It was tactilely painful to my fingers just to re-type that quote, and cerebrally painful to my brain to imagine that someone thought it up as a sentence to use in a conversation.

[libtard]

Originally Posted by Spr0ckets

Like I said,...
First world problems.

The only difference between you and them is which color spandrel, font or people-barrier is more offensive to your delicate senses for the few seconds out of your entire day that you actually have to perceive them and deal with the ensuing emotions.

That you point out those other two examples - while not even realizing what you have in common with them, in terms of offended sensibilities and your "hurt" senses of perception - as supposed examples of what in your mind constitute actual "First world problems", is the height of acute lack of self-awareness if ever I saw any.


"aesthetically painful to the eye"

Wow.

It was tactilely painful to my fingers just to re-type that quote, and cerebrally painful to my brain to imagine that someone thought it up as a sentence to use in a conversation.

Right so go police every post on this entire forum where people comment on things they don’t like the look of. Hurry now, you have lots of work to do.

[Spr0ckets]

LOL!

Triggered.

Imagine being triggered by a fence.
By ......a freakin' fence.

Laughable.

[shreddog]

Originally Posted by libtard

Everyone driving down Westminster hwy is affected by this eye sore.

Actually, as someone who does drive/bike down that stretch everyday, the "eye sores" that I'm subjected to on the south side of the road are significantly more disturbing than any chain link fence. Whether its the developer squatter/junk houses or these horrible McMansions, just about every building south on Westminster could be replaced with a chain link fence and the urban environment would be improved!

[homedepotbob]

Anyone knows what's going on there? Seems like the excavation work has been stalled for few weeks already!
Permit issue?!?

[goodcitywhenfinished]

Richmond is really becoming quite attractive. If I had to pick one suburb to live in Richmond is pretty high up there.

The city seems to be way more committed to creating an urban and walkable environment than Burnaby. Surrey is doing well in this regard but nothing really beats Richmond in terms of location and proximity to Vancouver/YVR/Ferry Terminals.