1477 West Broadway | 124 M | 39 fl | U/C

[LeftCoaster]

Makes sense to me.

[madog222]

Thanks

[officedweller]

From Lawrence Black twitter posted Feb 19th:


https://twitter.com/LawrenceBlackTV


https://twitter.com/LawrenceBlackTV


https://twitter.com/LawrenceBlackTV

[gaviscon]

The building feels really daunting from the street

[gaviscon]

[whatnext]

Thanks, I was wondering if those daffodils had come out yet!

[Migrant_Coconut]

Sorry to detour, but do any gardeners here know if/when the daffodils will eventually stop growing in neat rows and start spreading over the hill?

[jollyburger]

Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut

Sorry to detour, but do any gardeners here know if/when the daffodils will eventually stop growing in neat rows and start spreading over the hill?

Seems like it's very difficult since the seeds have no nectar the seeds almost never naturally propagate without manual intervention.

https://brentandbeckysblog.com/blogs...ffodils-spread

[Spr0ckets]

Originally Posted by jollyburger

Seems like it's very difficult since the seeds have no nectar the seeds almost never naturally propagate without manual intervention.

https://brentandbeckysblog.com/blogs...ffodils-spread

I believe you're conflating the "seeds", with the "pollen", with the flowers themselves.

The actual flowers (which house the pollen and produce nectar) have no nectar, which is necessary to attract insects like bees and small birds to the flowers to drink said nectar as food, and while doing so get some pollen stuck onto themselves.

The insects or birds (or in some cases small animals even) then act as pollen vectors, in helping transfer pollen from flower to flower thus pollinating them to germinate into fruits with seeds.

And then the seeds themselves are propagated either by animals or insects - in case they grow in edible fruits that can be eaten by said creatures - and then spread around after going through their digestive tracts as ejected fecal matter (complete with ready-made "seed food" in the manure around them), or in the case of plants to don't develop fruits, the seeds develop as light objects with wispy "fruits" or seed pods - sometimes with "wing" or "sail" like extrusions to facilitate them being spread by wind or runoff rainwater.

Seeds typically don't have nectar. It's the flower that does.
The seeds are either edible on their own are are in a casing that's edible and delicious (the fruit) to animals and insects)

In the case of the daffodil, the seed pod is neither nutritious or attractive to insects or animals, and the seeds themselves are too heavy to be blown away from the parent plant by wind or rain water.
Hence they need human intervention to help them propagate far beyond where they are "born".

So the lack of nectar is only a first part of the problem they face in being able to spread and propagate themselves along with the fact that they also don't develop or grow fruits or seed pods that would be attractive enough for animals to help them spread while not being mobile in shape and form themselves for the elements to do so.

In essence they are badly evolved plants that probably only still exist because we humans have helped them continue doing so, and would long ago have gone extinct without us due to their terrible natural adaptations.
Much like some domesticated animals (and plants) which can no longer survive on their own in the wild without humans.

[SpongeG]

so someone actually went there and planted all those daffodil bulbs?
I thought the bulbs would just naturally expand lol. I know some of my bulb plants have grown back with more and new flowers every spring without me doing anything there are just more of them every year.

[jollyburger]

And from seeds it takes another few years before it has a flowering bulb?

Those purple crocus seem to propagate pretty easily on their own.

[madog222]

Someone would have planted one or two bulbs in every bunch there. The bulbs will slowly multiply, like garlic cloves, resulting in the bunches in the picture. In nature they would be spread about by animals digging or just large animals walking and kicking them up.

They also seed from the flower and are actually self pollinating (though most sold in stores are cultivated hybrids and are sterile) but seeds are seeds and require ideal conditions to grow.

[officedweller]

Originally Posted by jollyburger

And from seeds it takes another few years before it has a flowering bulb?

Those purple crocus seem to propagate pretty easily on their own.

Those and bluebells and snowdrops.

[madog222]

Originally Posted by officedweller

Those and bluebells and snowdrops.

The purple flowers out now are crocus, bluebells come later and are taller.

[officedweller]

Originally Posted by madog222

The purple flowers out now are crocus, bluebells come later and are taller.

I just meant that they spread around by themselves, not that they're in flower now.

[Lexus]

2023, Mar 9
Still just one window section on the 4th floor.

Untitled by Lexus LX600, on Flickr

[LeftCoaster]

Ooof that's one massive transfer slab.

[SFUVancouver]

Originally Posted by LeftCoaster

Ooof that's one massive transfer slab.

I assume that is the point where the office use transitions to residential? Considering the former was designed and under construction before the latter was approved, I can imagine that big ass transfer slab maximized the flexibility of how the two building elements would interface.

[LeftCoaster]

Yes definitely what's going on there, a lot of different column loads being re-distributed. Makes sense when you've got 30 odd floors of resi above to shoulder the costs, but that's one expensive structural slab.

[jollyburger]

The plans says it's 78 inches/6.5 feet transfer beam. There's two floors of mechanical and the fitness centre/amenities on those two levels.

Here's the building cross-section diagrams

https://vancouver.ca/files/cov/1477-...pendix-d-2.pdf