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Old Posted May 31, 2011, 8:10 AM
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A detailed render of the windows on the bridge element.


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Old Posted Jun 1, 2011, 2:34 AM
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Only Vancouver has the ability to neuter the stacked box design to this extent...

Any one of these residential buildings in Hamburg are structurally more interesting:

http://www.deutschakademie.de/berlin...hafencity1.jpg
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Only Vancouver has the ability to neuter the stacked box design to this extent...

Any one of these residential buildings in Hamburg are structurally more interesting:

http://www.deutschakademie.de/berlin...hafencity1.jpg
Naah...I'm pretty sure when Crossroads was proposed and you saw the renderings that you complained about how boring they were. And the nearest building in your picture has an almost identical design to the residential portion of Crossroads.


But aside from your hyperbole...the design isn't terrible, but it could have pushed the envelope further. But as SFU has mentioned, the developer has more pressing issues than impressing us with an outstanding design, they are trying to intersect originality and profit.
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Old Posted Jun 1, 2011, 5:00 AM
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Most of the design problems have little to do with budget, such as the unnecessarily busy facades. With a massing like this, common sense would dictate a clean monolithic aesthetic to the "bridge" piece, so that it doesn't read like every other vancouveresque mid-rise, as it does now with all the setbacks and different facade styles bookending the sawtooth balcony portion.
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Went to their Realtor open house today, and the feedback there was mostly positive about the building design.
Figured the more critical eyes here would be a little less enthused though. Personally, I like it but think it's gonna be a very polarizing building. Love it or hate it.
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This is a nicer rendering of a stacked condo building,

http://www.pier27.ca/
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The site was cleared a few weeks ago:
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Most of the design problems have little to do with budget, such as the unnecessarily busy facades. With a massing like this, common sense would dictate a clean monolithic aesthetic to the "bridge" piece, so that it doesn't read like every other vancouveresque mid-rise, as it does now with all the setbacks and different facade styles bookending the sawtooth balcony portion.
I actually agree with dleung on this one. It's like they grabbed 3 mid-rises off Kingsway or something and stacked them on top of each other. It is a disappointment to me.

I really commended them for pursuing the concept (despite the concession of adding the pillars to the courtyard) but the facades are terrible, the fenestration is cluttered and confusing and the material choices are really odd. I’m mean at least it is different, but It really could have been great and it just... isn’t.
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Excavation has started?(!):



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not sure. they dont usually cover the mounds of dirt with plastic if they are excavating. id guess they are doing prep work not actual excavation
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I would imagine that seeing there was a car dealership with full service center there for a very long time that there may need to be some minimal soil remediation needing to be done and this looks like it may be that.
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I walked by earlier today and said they started as well.

I spoke with one of their sales reps about a month ago and they said they were well along their way to selling out. im sure that even if they are preping the site, excavating will most likely follow right away.

That whole area going to look great in no time.
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I would imagine that seeing there was a car dealership with full service center there for a very long time that there may need to be some minimal soil remediation needing to be done and this looks like it may be that.
What exactly does that mean? They're getting rid of the dirty soil so what does it matter if it's contaminated or not? It's not going to be there when people move in...
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Contaminated soil has to be disposed of in a very specific way. Disposing of contaminated soil is more expensive than just normal excavated soil so it needs to be seperated, and likely covered from the rain to prevent the contaminants from running off and leeching into the rest of the soil.
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Apparently Onni has secured a government office tenant to take the entire commercial component, even at grade level, so there will be no retail.

This is a huge win for the project. The office and retail components were likely to be a long and difficult leasing process and would not have been very profitable.

Too bad this didn't happen sooner because then they could have spent more on the exterior design...just kidding, they would've pocketed anything as profit before spending the bare minimum for approval!
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Hopefully their success will encourage other office projects nearby.
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Old Posted Oct 13, 2011, 8:23 PM
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Apparently Onni has secured a government office tenant to take the entire commercial component, even at grade level, so there will be no retail.

This is a huge win for the project. The office and retail components were likely to be a long and difficult leasing process and would not have been very profitable.

Too bad this didn't happen sooner because then they could have spent more on the exterior design...just kidding, they would've pocketed anything as profit before spending the bare minimum for approval!
that's great news! even better than any retail ..... as the more feet/people spending $$ in the area the better!
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Vancity has wanted to buy the easypark lot next to McDonalds from the city for years. They've wanted to build a second office tower and connect it to their existing tower via a skybridge. The city keeps saying no.

So there is an appetite for office in the area, and I'm sure more will follow. Hopefully Rize Alliance's Containers project eventually gets moving.
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Vancity has wanted to buy the easypark lot next to McDonalds from the city for years. They've wanted to build a second office tower and connect it to their existing tower via a skybridge. The city keeps saying no.

So there is an appetite for office in the area, and I'm sure more will follow. Hopefully Rize Alliance's Containers project eventually gets moving.
The Containers project was competing for the same government tenant. Kind of a shame since Onni would've gone ahead no matter what, but Rize's project remains stalled until there is a tenant.
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Onni's location (near SkyTrain) was probably the deciding factor versus Containers.

Main & Terminal would be a great place for an office node - Skytrain, Main St. bus and future streetcar and retail & restaurants at Olympic Village and Chinatown. It also works extending it into the False Creek Flats and hopefully making that area less "office park"-ish.
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