Yikes....that's pretty bad. The buildings aren't awful, their just mediocre (podium and office tower on right is bad) and are a terrible replacement of those 50's towers.
It would be very costly to make those towers viable for use as offices or residential.....but they could renovate those towers into either use, sell it either condos or have one tower as offices. This would be a very lengthy process of retrofitting those buildings, but it would be an interesting way of maintaining an existing building for a new use. They could fix up the street level too in some areas and add retail units. (This is rather unrealistic in some ways, but a company like Oxford or CF could do this if they were interested......but it's a pipe dream)
I believe the current Empire Landmark Hotel demolition in Vancouver will be the second tallest building to ever be demo'd in Canada (smokestacks not included).
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Podium coming down...
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Dismantling of the Cloud 9 restaurant moving pretty fast now. I'm curious as the to process for the tower demo.
I believe the current Empire Landmark Hotel demolition in Vancouver will be the second tallest building to ever be demo'd in Canada (smokestacks not included).
/\ I love revolving restaurants. Sad to see that building go.
Inner Harbour Custom House building in Victoria is nearly torn down now. The original wing on the left (Federal Govt building) is being retained (built between 1894 and 1898) while the addition on the right completed in 1952 is being destroyed and replaced with high end condos selling between 850,000 and 11 million. It will have a great view of the Parliament buildings and the harbour.