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Old Posted Sep 29, 2007, 4:28 PM
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Still not sure quite how this one is gonna work, cuz isn't there a long strip of relatively new lowrise condo's on the north side of this site, is this gonna fill up that entire block??
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^No it's just going to take up the southern half of the block. The north lowrise will remain as is.
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Old Posted Sep 30, 2007, 2:31 AM
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I really like the taller tower. It looks like something that would be built in Scandinavia....well, Malmo. Hopefully, we'll get some more renderings from different angles.
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here's a new rendering showing the south side of the buildings. i like it but man, it's not cheap. the elevator box on the lowrise needs a reworking though. can't imagine the city allowing that..

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It looks like they've already begun taking apart that old lowrise on the south east corner of the site.
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Looks like it's being renovated as a "sales presentation center" first.
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Those two core walls on the south side of the buildings will be lit up with LEDs. I've seen a couple renderings and they look pretty awesome. It didn't appear to extend to the top boxes though.
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They start at 1.5 million? Ack!
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note:1.5mill for view residences.
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As usual, I'm not keen on the spandrel panels. They appear to have varied them (in response to different floorplates) so they look like part of the design.

Also, wouldn't it be nice if the elevator cores had an organic westcoast concrete design like the Olympic Oval's as shown in this pic by Bils or even a funky geometric pattern:


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Came across this pic of the facade of one of the buildings that will be demolished for West Pender Place.
Too bad the old facade elements can't be preserved or re-incorporated into the elevator cores of the new tower.

http://one-seventh.com/weblog01/category/vancouver/

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Old Posted Dec 2, 2007, 10:33 PM
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Thanks for the link above to my site, officedweller. My instinct was exactly the same: what are we losing? The particular image is this one (thumbnail of which I attach as there are a number of images on that page) of 1477 W. Pender I took with my BB a number of weeks ago:


For those interested, this project went to the Urban Design Panel on November 7th. Minutes are here:
http://www.city.vancouver.bc.ca/comm...tes/nov7.htm#1

The good news is that the glazing is in fact silicone butt-jointed curtain wall, not window wall, so it should look pretty clean. I agree with the comment on the broad exposed concrete core face; the drawings indicate board-formed concrete of varying widths; but hey - illuminated & board-formed or not, it's still a massive concrete wall. My suggestion for what it was worth was to pay some homage to what is being lost - you'll notice that many of our period modern gems including the one to be demolished have a strip of glazing exposing the vertical circulation. It would have been interesting if HB/IBI played with that idea at the elevator core.
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the design panel is requesting some changes to that concrete wall..
exerpt from the minutes

"A couple panel members questioned why the width of exposed concrete on West Pender was the same for both towers, and suggested the width of exposed concrete on the short east tower could be narrower. A couple of other Panel members suggested adding narrow slot windows to the stair wells of the exposed concrete core walls in order to create a playful element and to give a more interesting light at night as well as to add natural light during the day.

Some of the Panel liked the LED lighting designed for the south side of the towers as they felt it would give a night-time signature to the building, however others raised concerns about potential light pollution."

here's some additional renderings.
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no one asked the concrete walls be removed altogether???
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Yeah, it would be nice if the elevator core was opened up somehow. The Cooper's Lookout Building at Cooper's Park has a vertical strip of windows down the backside into the elevator lobby - probably one of the only recent condos to do that.
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