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jlousa Jan 30, 2012 10:12 PM

320 Granville St |115m | 32Fl | Completed
 
An offical application has been made, so here are the details.

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Rezoning Application - 320 Granville Street
VIA Architecture has applied to the City of Vancouver to rezone 320 Granville Street from DD (Downtown) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District. The proposal is for a 32-storey office building, with retail and a bike station at grade, and a childcare on the top floor. The development would be comprised of approximately 35 303 m² (380,000 sq. ft.) of floor area, with a floor space ratio (FSR) of 25.5, and a height of 119 m (390 ft.).
I the bolded the very large FSR. Not sure if it's a new Vancouver record or not, but it's certainly up there.


Rendering
http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/plannin.../rendering.pdf

City Planning Context
http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/plannin.../rzcontext.pdf

Site Context
http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/plannin...s/siteplan.pdf

Concept Model Views
http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/plannin...nts/aerial.pdf

View Impact Analysis
http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/plannin...ents/tower.pdf

View Cone Analysis
http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/plannin...ents/views.pdf

Shadow Diagrams
http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/plannin...ts/shadows.pdf

Project Stats and Context Aerial
http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/plannin.../projstats.pdf

Parking Plans
http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/plannin...ts/parking.pdf

Floor Plans
http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/plannin...floorplans.pdf

Building Elevation Drawings
http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/plannin...ents/elevs.pdf

Building Section Drawings
http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/plannin...s/sections.pdf

My 2 cents, I'm happy to see this one moving forward. I'm still a touch doubtful as to wether it will make this round of towers but I'm more then willing to be proven wrong. As most of you know I seldom complain about design, this is one building that in it's current state lets me down. I certainly don't expect anything special, but I was hoping for slightly more. Anyways enjoy, discuss, critic.

officedweller Jan 30, 2012 10:21 PM

Thanks for posting!

The tower seems pretty plain. The setbacks/reveals may end up looking like those on Bentall V, but across the face of the tower.

The only good thing I see with this tower is that the ground plane is nicely opened up to allow views towards the CP Station.

Check out the view cone analysis, which includes a massing study for the towers north of the CP Station.

I wonder what the glazing will be like?
Grant Thornton Place next door is very "shiny", so I wouldn't want mirrored glass, but it would be nice to have glazing that would allow the limestone RBC tower to stand out against it.

LeftCoaster Jan 30, 2012 10:23 PM

Wow and the office buildings just keep on commin'

There's another decent sized one in the works too, should be a few months before it is announced though!

With regards to this one it seems terribly boring, and why in the world is VIA submitting a proposal to the city rendered in what looks like sketch-up. They are much better than that.

Hopefully the UDP gets them to add some more umph to the design because this one is going to be quite visible from the harbour and is a total snooze fest as is.

trofirhen Jan 30, 2012 11:09 PM

:previous::previous::previous:
Couldn't agree more. This is potential place for a dramatic "twist" ot "turn" to it (metaphorically speaking) and we're presented with this. The diagonal lines seem like a wimpy attempt to be "daring." The Credit Suisse-funded building seems much more dramatic. As Leftcoaster said, give this one some more "umph" and Fast ! ! It needs an emergency intravenous against blandomyelitis.

Hed Kandi Jan 30, 2012 11:16 PM

Thanks Jlo!

The design is shit. Let's hope the UDP takes this one for a beating and hands it off to a firm like SOM to work some magic.

And well because I love you guys, I've added this proposal to the development thread. 1075 W Hastings has also been re-branded 'MNP Tower'.

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=138119

Canadian Mind Jan 30, 2012 11:17 PM

I hope the glass isn't nearly as translucent as it is in that picture.

Also, when was the last time the diagrams were updated?

trofirhen Jan 30, 2012 11:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Hed Kandi (Post 5570373)
Thanks Jlo!

The design is shit. Let's hope the UDP takes this one for a beating and hands it off to a firm like SOM to work some magic.

And well because I love you guys, I've added this proposal to the development thread. 1075 W Hastings has also been re-branded 'MNP Tower'.

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=138119


Love the ethereal (no height, no date given) of 99 West Pender in that thread. Now THAT or something more like it would be worthwhile and difficult to argue down, I think. French immersion pie! :cool:

logan5 Jan 31, 2012 4:48 AM

(These renderings are always frustrating for me to look at. The rendering is so vague to me that I couldn't possibly interpret what the final product is going to look like. I'm not doubting others, that's just my own experience.(with renderings)

dleung Jan 31, 2012 5:17 AM

How can something proposed 13 years after Bentall 5 look this ugly....

trofirhen Jan 31, 2012 5:19 AM

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Originally Posted by dleung (Post 5570880)
How can something proposed 13 years after Bentall 5 look so ugly....

:previous:
This is Vancouver ............. {I hate to use that polemic tone, but this city seemingly just can't break through the design barrier}

officedweller Jan 31, 2012 5:45 AM

I don't find it ugly - I just find it plain.

I think it will look a lot like the sides of Bentall V - and blame the view cones for the flat roof.
It's actually a bit more interesting than some office towers like Bay-Adelaide in TO.

Here are the reveals on Bentall V - I think the reveals on 320 will appear the same - hopefully there will be some differentiation in the facade on each side of the reveal:

From the Bentall website:

http://www.bentallcentre.com/assets/...pper-large.jpg
http://www.bentallcentre.com/

By Uncle Buddha from Flickr:

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2215/1...95d4efb829.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/uncle_b...n/photostream/

deasine Jan 31, 2012 6:09 AM

Ironically, the second line on the rendering says:

Quote:

320 Granville Street - The Pivot of Opportunity
(emphasis mine)

Hed Kandi Jan 31, 2012 6:53 AM

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Originally Posted by dleung (Post 5570880)
How can something proposed 13 years after Bentall 5 look this ugly....

:yeahthat

dleung Jan 31, 2012 7:05 AM

I was so dismayed I created my own proposal:

Assuming the 12' floor-to-floor heights of the current proposal, mine is 330 feet high and 26 stories. At first I tried a 450 foot version to step "up" from Granville Square, but seeing that the site is A) near the waterfront, and B) surounded by smaller-scale historic buildings, hence C) will not see a lot of height nearby in the forseeable future, I think the tower height should step down instead, preserving vistas from the Harbour Center observation deck. This is not a good spot to stick a "skyline addition".

Floorplates (minus a 1500sf core) average just over 8500sf, for a total of 220,000sf. The main gesture of course is opening up the ground plane for clear sightlines to Waterfront Station, and to Granville Plaza from the adjacent buildings.

http://img862.imageshack.us/img862/5951/plazaview.jpg

http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/1344/granvilleview.jpg

http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/1365/city1lk.jpg

http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/5390/city2t.jpg

http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/5552/skyline1d.jpg

http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/5290/skyline2e.jpg

EdinVan Jan 31, 2012 10:48 AM

Anything is better than what's there now.

phesto Jan 31, 2012 3:37 PM

I wouldn't get too worked up about the design, as there is a good chance this is just a placeholder until the rezoning is achieved - which would explain the choice of architect and what appears to be minimal cost and effort in the design work so far.

If they get approval for this density, don't be surprised if the site is sold before it hits the DPB/UDP stage which would allow for some refinements and tweaks to the design (but no more height or density).

wrenegade Jan 31, 2012 5:08 PM

I agree the height/density is the important thing here, but that design is really uninspired. Not ugly, just blah. I hope to see some change as well.

Anyone else think the rooftop daycare is a bit of a strange use for what would ordinarily be the most prime view office real estate?

s211 Jan 31, 2012 5:33 PM

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Originally Posted by wrenegade (Post 5571294)
Anyone else think the rooftop daycare is a bit of a strange use for what would ordinarily be the most prime view office real estate?

One of the first things that caught my eye. It smacks of triple bottom line run amok.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_bottom_line

officedweller Jan 31, 2012 9:37 PM

I think it's about trying to encroach on the view cone with a component that would be politically incorrect for the City to delete.
To be withion the view cone, an entire floor would have to be deleted.
And remember that the City doesn't like daycare outdoor space on podium rooftops because of all the stuff (including dead bodies) that seem to fall on them.

trofirhen Jan 31, 2012 10:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by officedweller (Post 5571690)
I think it's about trying to encroach on the view cone with a component that would be politically incorrect for the City to delete.
To be withion the view cone, an entire floor would have to be deleted.
And remember that the City doesn't like daycare outdoor space on podium rooftops because of all the stuff (including dead bodies) that seem to fall on them.

Agreed totally on the "politically correct" armlock attempt. Interesting (and disturbing) the dead bodies: (where do they come from?).

Anyway, some years earlier, I had seen a Time-Life photgraph of a highrise rooftop preschool in Mexico City, and understood there were others like it.
Tried to research it but must have looked in all the wrong links.
Do they still exist? Is this relevant to Vancouver at all? (not in this case; sorry for the digression)


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