Three Harbour Green | 116m | 32fl | Completed - Page 14

trofirhen · #**261** Posted **Mar 20, 2011, 1:25 AM**

... can't believe (... well, I can, I guess ....): 15 hours since the last post on this thread. Perhaps colour isn't always that important to viewers, or they're too familiar with it already, but I'm surprised nobody has posted.

SpongeG · #**262** Posted **Mar 20, 2011, 5:13 AM**

about what?

Locked In · #**263** Posted **Mar 21, 2011, 12:23 AM**

Harbour Green (and Georgia) from the seabus - my BB photo:

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Yume-sama · #**264** Posted **Mar 21, 2011, 12:24 AM**

Ooh, that's a really nice photo. I should brave the seabus one of these days just to get one like it.

/probablywilljusttakeharbourcruise

dleung · #**265** Posted **Mar 21, 2011, 12:47 AM**

They're almost done

On another note, I never understood the white trim they have around the punched windows in the podium (below pic, bottom)... why couldn't they get it perfectly flush like with the windows in the tower (right)

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SpongeG · #**266** Posted **Mar 21, 2011, 12:50 AM**

what white trim?

Locked In · #**267** Posted **Mar 21, 2011, 12:53 AM**

^ Around the two windows at the very bottom of the above pic.

Nice render dleung - looks good.

SpongeG · #**268** Posted **Mar 21, 2011, 12:57 AM**

oh that pic never showed up before for me - it does look off

trofirhen · #**269** Posted **Mar 21, 2011, 3:05 PM**

In the top photo, looking at the skyline, it's nice to see the Georgia almost finished, along with Harbour Green. (nice photo, dleung)

OK. Now ..... look at Granville Square. Now look at Harbour Centre and imagine it without the circular rooftop deck;

Now THERE are two GREAT, unabashed examples of concrete "Stalinist" brutalism, IMO. They make me gag, both of them. Sure, the're from the late 60s and early 70s, but what is going up today is generally paradisiac compared to those two ugly beasts. I'd like to see them demolished ....(but that's not for another 50 years

) oh well .........

SFUVancouver · #**270** Posted **Mar 28, 2011, 6:31 AM**

Harbour Green Three from Canada Place Way and Burrard Street.

Taken by SFUVancouver, March 24th, 2011.

red-paladin · #**271** Posted **Mar 28, 2011, 10:40 AM**

I vote we change the name of this tower to 'Spandrel-la'

Jebby · #**272** Posted **Mar 28, 2011, 1:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by trofirhen

Now THERE are two GREAT, unabashed examples of concrete "Stalinist" brutalism, IMO. They make me gag, both of them. Sure, the're from the late 60s and early 70s, but what is going up today is generally paradisiac compared to those two ugly beasts. I'd like to see them demolished ....(but that's not for another 50 years

) oh well .........

I don't think you know what Stalinist architecture looks like, but it was nothing remotely close to brutalism or those buildings you mentioned.

trofirhen · #**273** Posted **Mar 28, 2011, 1:29 PM**

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I don't think you know what Stalinist architecture looks like, but it was nothing remotely close to brutalism or those buildings you mentioned.

Maybe I wasn't careful enough with my language, so I'll lower the intellectual tone and put it this way: IMO, the Harbour Centre is a hideously ugly concrete block (rectangular of course) with square windows, that make it look loike an institutional building (military mental hospital, as you like ....). Granville square is slightly better, but drab and concrete. The effort to produce a tapering effect falls flat. (unlike La Tour de la Bourse in Montreal) and the building is, again IMO, really ugly.

Maybe I'm ignorant of Stalinism and Brutalism, but I do not like the two aforementioned buildings and I wish they would go away.

SpongeG · #**274** Posted **Mar 28, 2011, 7:25 PM**

i love those two buildings

trofirhen · #**275** Posted **Mar 28, 2011, 7:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by red-paladin

I vote we change the name of this tower to 'Spandrel-la'

I agree the spandrels rather ruin it. Imagine it without spandrels!! An emerald structure! The colour is beautiful, though, IMHO.

Those other buildings with the turquoise glass and metal finish may be modern, but they remind me of the old BC Hydro (now Electra) with turquoise glass and grey metal.

Hard to believe it!! Looking through old books and magazines, the old BC Hydro building was once THE great new skyscraper of Vancouver!!

navazan · #**276** Posted **Mar 28, 2011, 9:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by SFUVancouver

Harbour Green Three from Canada Place Way and Burrard Street.

Taken by SFUVancouver, March 24th, 2011.

good to finally see a 30 floor residential box being built in vancouver.

Locked In · #**277** Posted **Mar 29, 2011, 3:23 AM**

Nice pic SFU, thanks.

hankthetank · #**278** Posted **Mar 29, 2011, 3:44 AM**

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Originally Posted by trofirhen

Maybe I wasn't careful enough with my language, so I'll lower the intellectual tone and put it this way: IMO, the Harbour Centre is a hideously ugly concrete block (rectangular of course) with square windows, that make it look loike an institutional building (military mental hospital, as you like ....). Granville square is slightly better, but drab and concrete. The effort to produce a tapering effect falls flat. (unlike La Tour de la Bourse in Montreal) and the building is, again IMO, really ugly.

Maybe I'm ignorant of Stalinism and Brutalism, but I do not like the two aforementioned buildings and I wish they would go away.

"Maybe"? Relax man, all your comments in the forums are so negative. Maybe you should move to a city where you love every single building in it.

dleung · #**279** Posted **Mar 29, 2011, 3:46 AM**

at least he's marginally more-informed than navazan... the latter thinks HG3 is a box

Boxes need 4 sides and a top... having one barely-flat facade does not a box make

Jebby · #**280** Posted **Mar 29, 2011, 6:04 AM**

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"Maybe"? Relax man, all your comments in the forums are so negative. Maybe you should move to a city where you love every single building in it.

That's why he doesn't live in Vancouver.