1444 Alberni | 138M | 48FL + 43FL | Passive House | Proposed

[Feathered Friend]

I grabbed these at City Hall on Friday:













A friendly reminder that the open house is:

scheduled from 5 to 8 pm on Tuesday, November 7, 2017 at the Listel Hotel Impressionist Gallery (1300 Robson Street)

[Bcasey25raptor]

I love it, finally something unique and iconic.

[osirisboy]

Why is it called passive house?

[trofirhen]

Originally Posted by Bcasey25raptor

I love it, finally something unique and iconic.

Same here !! It has a real "big city" (dare I say 'New Yorkish') look and feel to it.

[officedweller]

Energy efficiency - (i.e. no active heating or cooling (?))

Originally Posted by misterchill

Passive House is a green building standard developed in Germany that boosts energy efficiency and comfort, and it reduces a building’s greenhouse gas emissions. There are about 1,150 Passive House buildings worldwide.

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[s211]

Originally Posted by trofirhen

Same here !! It has a real "big city" (dare I say 'New Yorkish') look and feel to it.

More po-mo I'd think, which for some would equate to NYC perhaps.

[trofirhen]

Originally Posted by s211

More po-mo I'd think, which for some would equate to NYC perhaps.

Nope. Excuse me, but it's just that it looks "un-Vancouverish." No green glass; .... and the shape of the buildings have sort of an 'East Side Manhattan' aspect to them......IMO.

[excel]

Originally Posted by Bcasey25raptor

I love it, finally something unique and iconic.

What about vancouver house, baptist church, kengo kuma and 1500 west georgia?

[dreambrother808]

Originally Posted by Bcasey25raptor

I love it, finally something unique and iconic.

Nowhere near unique nor iconic, but still a refreshing contrast to what usually gets built here.

[s211]

Originally Posted by trofirhen

Nope. Excuse me, but it's just that it looks "un-Vancouverish." No green glass; .... and the shape of the buildings have sort of an 'East Side Manhattan' aspect to them......IMO.

Or just a refresh to the Mondrian project next to Yaletown, which is pretty similar with its po-mo light.

https://goo.gl/maps/2hzJyJem8Ez

[Jebby]

Originally Posted by s211

Or just a refresh to the Mondrian project next to Yaletown, which is pretty similar with its po-mo light.

https://goo.gl/maps/2hzJyJem8Ez

I really don't see the similarity...

[VancouverOfTheFuture]

im a fan

[officedweller]

Originally Posted by s211

Or just a refresh to the Mondrian project next to Yaletown, which is pretty similar with its po-mo light.

https://goo.gl/maps/2hzJyJem8Ez

You mean Eden.
Passive house has same art deco proportions, but with better finishing.

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BTW people are using "post-modern" incorrectly.

These are examples of post-modern architecture - which tend to be a bit gaudy.
Passive house looks to be art deco in its proportions and will be more classically finished.

Good read here:
https://www.failedarchitecture.com/8...cture-in-2016/



https://va312aslifilis.wordpress.com...postmodernism/


http://www.e-architect.co.uk/postmodern-architecture


http://www.failedarchitecture.com/8-...cture-in-2016/


https://www.flickr.com/photos/summerspot/2521288081

[Marshal]

Those are only examples of a particular strain of post-modernism.

Unlike the modern movement, the post-modern movement was reactionary to a kind of rigour and simplicity which it argued went too far, leaving too many avenues of meaning out of architecture's vocabulary. As such, it was a movement which favoured (according to its own conception) both complexity and multiplicity. That meant that it was a broad and diverse school of design: there are many forms of post-modernism: these examples of Graves, etc., the intellectual formal puzzlings of Eisenman & Libeskind, Gehry, the Japanese postmodernists, the postmodern classicism of Stern, later Safdie (incl. our main Library), and so on. This project easily fits into this range.

[logan5]

What?! Could somebody translate that for me?

[rofina]

These would fit right in if we were living in Gotham.

[VancouverOfTheFuture]

Originally Posted by rofina

These would fit right in if we were living in Gotham.

lets hope they stay as designed; something less point-and-click copy-and-paste would be nice in the city.

[Marshal]

Originally Posted by logan5

What?! Could somebody translate that for me?

Translation: postmodernism is a much wider movement with many more kinds of expression than officedweller's post showed. And this project would fit in the tent.

[Marshal]

I don't like this kind of design - but, if they use stone and the detailing is refined, the design will be good enough, and I agree with those who would be happy to see something different.

[BobLoblawsLawBlog]

Originally Posted by officedweller

You mean Eden.
Passive house has same art deco proportions, but with better finishing.

****

BTW people are using "post-modern" incorrectly.

These are examples of post-modern architecture - which tend to be a bit gaudy.
Passive house looks to be art deco in its proportions and will be more classically finished.

Good read here:
https://www.failedarchitecture.com/8...cture-in-2016/



https://va312aslifilis.wordpress.com...postmodernism/


http://www.e-architect.co.uk/postmodern-architecture


http://www.failedarchitecture.com/8-...cture-in-2016/


https://www.flickr.com/photos/summerspot/2521288081

Jesus this post-modern architecture is so ugly. Did people unironically think this looked good? Some better examples of postmodernism would be Burnaby Central Library or the lobby of the Vancouver General Hospital.