EDC | 78.2 m | 19 fl | Completed - Page 3

harls · #41 Posted **Jun 4, 2009, 5:26 PM**

AuxTown · #42 Posted **Jun 4, 2009, 9:16 PM**

Man, it's gonna be a pretty chunky building with that floorplate, it's huge! I think for it not to look chunky it would have to be at least 60 storeys (not happening). Nice design nonetheless, excellent gap filler.

ajldub · #43 Posted **Jun 4, 2009, 11:16 PM**

Let's hope they inject a little ground floor retail into this baby...

Richard Eade · #44 Posted **Jun 5, 2009, 2:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by ajldub

Let's hope they inject a little ground floor retail into this baby...

Why not a sub-grade retail level to help kick start the underground city?

With a subway coming in 10 years, and talk of developing a PATH-like system, why would new large buildings still not be designed with lower level retail so they could join the system?

Could it be because there is so far no insentive to do so? Montreal spurred the development of their underground city by removing all taxes on underground development for several years. Once the critical core of the system was built, the taxes came back. People keep building underground because there is now enough of a system to make it worth while.

Shouldn't Ottawa be thinking ahead and doing this type of thing? Honestly, this City puts so little thought and effort into its future.

Dado · #45 Posted **Jun 5, 2009, 3:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by Richard Eade

Shouldn't Ottawa be thinking ahead and doing this type of thing? Honestly, this City puts so little thought and effort into its future.

Isn't that the NCC's job?

I'm wondering about the new convention centre... that'll probably be an expensive retrofit as well.

jitterbug · #46 Posted **Jun 5, 2009, 6:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by Richard Eade

Why not a sub-grade retail level to help kick start the underground city?

I'm much more concerned with what's happening at ground level, especially in the largely desolate CBD. Obviously, ground floor retail is essential, preferably including a decent restaurant and/or pub. As for building an underground city, if this ever happens in Ottawa it would and should begin with the area around Rideau & Sussex and stretch east along Rideau.

Just look at the underground mall at Place de Ville. It opened in the early 1970s and is now a ghost town - permanently closed. Nothing will work in the CBD until and unless there's some street life there. An underground city is a pipe dream for this area.

harls · #47 Posted **Jun 9, 2009, 5:57 PM**

Some more progress..

Ldotbyron · #48 Posted **Jun 30, 2009, 1:38 AM**

I work beside this site in the Canadian building...

Today they were blasting dynamite and you could feel the entire building shake, crazy stuff.

Davis137 · #49 Posted **Jun 30, 2009, 2:43 PM**

Is it solid rock under the CBD?

Deez · #50 Posted **Jul 13, 2009, 3:33 AM**

earlier today

harls · #51 Posted **Jul 16, 2009, 1:09 PM**

I went by here on Monday and the hole is quite deep now.

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Originally Posted by Ldotbyron

Today they were blasting dynamite and you could feel the entire building shake, crazy stuff.

When they were making the hole for 180 Kent, I had a similar experience in my office... first you'd hear the horn, then a few seconds later the explosion and subsequent window rattling.

AuxTown · #52 Posted **Jul 16, 2009, 2:21 PM**

I'm actually quite excited about this project. It's not very tall, but it's probably the nicest office building built in Ottawa in recent memory. It's gonna be a real beast on that corner:

Davis137 · #53 Posted **Jul 16, 2009, 10:48 PM**

This is a pretty big hole in the ground, and I'm glad it's going to have as large a footprint as it is. As others mentioned before, excellent infill project...

harls · #54 Posted **Jul 28, 2009, 6:19 PM**

Still just a hole in the ground.

Danman · #55 Posted **Jul 28, 2009, 7:13 PM**

I heard that this is the biggest office tower to be built in Ottawa in the last 25 years...Quite a big hole going on....

ajldub · #56 Posted **Jul 28, 2009, 7:16 PM**

Thx for the photo updates, harly. They come in handy to a guy who gets home only occasionally. So do we know how deep this behemoth is going to go? I really hope the exterior glass is that non-shiny stuff that is de rigeur in Toronto and Vancouver right now. It looks much better than the shiny one-way stuff that is all over our eighties boxes...

Davis137 · #57 Posted **Jul 29, 2009, 11:01 PM**

Hole looks around 2 storey's below grade already...

ikerrin · #58 Posted **Jul 30, 2009, 12:53 PM**

Thanks to the person who listed the ground floor renderings back on page one. I was wondering what they were doing on Laurier.

Its the loading dock for the building. I know it has to go somewhere, but Laurier is a nice street. If you ask me, its going to be a good looking buildning in a hospital gown with its but flapping in the wind for all to see.

Why would you design a loading dock onto a major road.

harls · #59 Posted **Jul 30, 2009, 1:33 PM**

It might be because Laurier is the only street with 2-way street access? I'm not sure..

The BMO building's loading dock is on Laurier as well (just to the west).

peteotown · #60 Posted **Aug 13, 2009, 6:04 PM**

Not sure if these have already been posted, but found them on the Broccolini website showing some different angles of the building: