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Originally Posted by dleung
Yes, by all means hide the facade with the small windows. But what I meant was where the dockside curves out front (the space behind the smokestacks in the following photo) could have used a lot more breathing space. The "ship" now looks like a tugboat in comparison.
Never a fan of full-block-style massing anyway.
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I see what you mean now. Your diagram with the gap is a suggested solution to provide visual relief to the dockside end units and also the overall view and feel from the street. You're right, it will be crowded and a little awkward. Perhaps a missed opportunity to have achieved a superior solution. But the little boats are usually expected to yield to the big ships.
I was kind of in a similar situation recently, where I am. The Atelier is directly across from my windows on Homer Street and it has filled 80-90% of what had been a splendid view to the west. They had to place the tower back from Robson to avoid shading the Library plaza but that put the tower right in my face. Perhaps the one concession we did get was that it's a curved facade that we face now, which does make a difference. They can't please everyone so it's a really tricky dance to just avoid the worst results and give everyone something.
Another example was how the developer of the Sapphire tower was required to angle one side quite dramatically to save quite a lot of the view for the Melville tower. I'm sure they got some extra density to make up for cutting a corner back.
It'll be interesting to see the same view across the intersection when West Pender Place is all finished.
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