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Originally Posted by Feathered Friend
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I too would be curious to see how the UDP responds to this submission.
It doesn't seem like they responded substantively (IMO) to the panel's three recommendations other than the redesign of the podium to try to fit the "character" of the existing three public facing streets.
It also feels like they were stuck somewhere between what they feel they need to, or had to do (vis-a-vis UDP's recommendations) versus what they wanted to do such that they end up with this mishmash of a sort of modern tower sitting on and getting smashed into a kind of 1980's/90's designed podium (...that is, after all, the character of Broadway at least since most of the neighbouring buildings were built in that time period), which just makes for a fussy Frankenstein monster of redesign that's of two minds and no clear conviction of its own identity.
Again,...in my humble opinion.
There's just seems like there's too much going on, and all fighting with each other, rather than working in concert.
The vertical fins on some faces of the tower; vertical fins staggered for some reason; a podium grid that seems like it's lazily trying to ape/fit in with the neighbour building; and canopy's on the West 8th side that look like they're trying to be a kind of Alberni high-street-esque vibe on a side and facing street of the building that's anything but,...(Alberni).
In other words, a jangly mishmash of disparate elements all fighting for attention giving no clear identity or character to the whole.
I suspect it will eventually get passed through and permitted (after some back-and-forth push and pull) because the City would much prefer to have office buildings and employment centers built in close proximity to what will likely be a major transit hub once the Skytrain extension is completed, rather than not.
It's such a pity because such a corner could have used a more iconic and landmark design of a tower.
Not this.
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