Vancouver House (1400 Howe St) | 151.5m | 52Fl | Completed
The wait is over, here is the project most of you have been waiting for.
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The City has received an application to rezone the sites at 1412-1460 Howe Street, 1429 and 1410 Granville Street, and 710 Pacific Street from BCPED (B.C. Place/Expo) and FCCDD (False Creek Comprehensive Development) Districts to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District. The proposal is for a mixed-use development as follows:
* on the Howe Street sites, a 49-storey residential tower with a 9-storey podium including market rental housing, commercial uses, and a childcare facility
* on the Granville Street and Pacific Street sites, 6-storey buildings providing retail (including a grocery store, drugstore and liquor store) and office uses a proposed floor space ratio (FSR) of 4.8 (i.e. the total building floor area permitted would be equal to 4.8 times the site area)
* a total floor area of 60 668 m² (653,046 sq. ft.)
- 39 464 m²(424,800.9 sq. ft.) strata residential
- 6 340 m² (68,245.4 sq. ft.) rental residential
- 6 300 m² (67,814.9 sq. ft.) retail
- 5 935 m² (63,885.9 sq. ft.) office space, and
- 650 m² (6,996.8 sq. ft.) childcare
* a maximum height of 150 m (the General Policy for Higher Buildings has identified this site as a location for a higher building);
* a total of 600 residential units including 180 market rental units; and
713 parking spaces, 8 loading bays, and 270 bike spaces.
You know it's going to be a luxury building by the number of 3bed units. This is probably one of the handful of buildings in this city (especially downtown) where 1beds make up less than half of the units. I'm estimating about a quarter of the units are 1beds. Quite refreshing but the flip side of that coin means low affordability. But I'm willing to sacrifice a bit of affordability for some architectural eye candy.
It's hard to tell, but the 2bed unit on the west side of the building (the one with 785sqft) on the 10th and 20th floor has a really tight entrance due to the structural concrete columns/walls. http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/plannin...towerplans.pdf
Geoff Meggs must hate this proposal! For it has towers being built directly beside a viaduct and ramps!
And look at what they are proposing under the structure itself! hmmmmmmm...
Love the idea of having a movie venue under the bridge as well, along with the night market and using good lighting features to make the space more welcoming.
Love the design of this tower, please city council, do not water it down!
Very exciting proposal and truly 'un-vancouver'. Love it
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"The destructive effects of automobiles are much less a cause than a symptom of our incompetence at city building" - Jane Jacobs 1961ish
Like everyone else, I am so impressed and excited for this development. The tower is awesome obviously. But the street level plans are what blew me away. The people that put this proposal together think very much in the way I like. It's fresh but also real.
Furthermore, I hope this is a wake-up call for our incestuous local architectural firms, as good as they are, that they need to push their own boundaries. So many fresh ideas from around the world yet they stick to their tried and true palette.
As amazing as the tower is, I agree that it is the street level plans that really blew me away. The concepts for how the space can be so usable are unbelievable. Just shows what can be done working around obstacles such as bridges or viaducts (*hint *hint, Viaducts). The creativity is fantastic.
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Geoff Meggs must hate this proposal! For it has towers being built directly beside a viaduct and ramps! 
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