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Old Posted Jun 1, 2014, 8:44 PM
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There is someone standing in the intersection?!
Looks like moments after winning some international hockey game. This is like catching a glimpse of the dam as she has just been breached for soon a flood of people will take over the intersection.
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Old Posted Jul 4, 2014, 12:32 AM
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Old Posted Jul 5, 2014, 5:27 PM
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so the word on the street is the big ugly brown tower known as the trizak building will be getting a reclad soon
Always been my favourite Winnipeg tower (Trizec). Also like the MTS (B of M) tower - just wish it was taller.
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Old Posted Jul 5, 2014, 7:16 PM
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This building is located on Alexandre street, which used to be the main street of a French canadian working-class neighbourhood named "le petit Canada" (literally little Canada).


Streetview (before) and IMACOM, CLAUDE POULIN (after)
Thats actually a really neat little renovation. I can think of dozens of buildings in Hamilton that could benefit from a similar one.
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BY BILL MAH, EDMONTON JOURNAL JULY 14, 2014 6:36 PM
 

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EDMONTON - When sole tenant ATB Financial moved its corporate headquarters across Jasper Avenue, it left landlord Hokanson Capital with an empty building.

But the Edmonton-based company saw it as an opportunity to modernize and reposition the 16-floor, 34-year-old office tower on Jasper and 98th Avenue. It even gave it a new name: 9Triple8 Jasper.

“It was really a once in a decade or multi-decade opportunity to have this building go entirely vacant and you can really go in there and do a thorough job and position it for the next 30 years of its life,” said Jordan Hokanson, president of property owner Hokanson Capital.

ATB Financial leased the entire building but outgrew the space and completed a move to ATB Place, formerly Telus House, earlier this year.

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/...800/story.html
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Old Posted Aug 3, 2014, 7:21 PM
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Old Four Seasons at Yorkville and Avenue looking good.




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Old Posted Aug 5, 2014, 5:57 PM
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Not an ongoing reclad, but a beautiful reclad of a brutalist lowrise in London Ontario.



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Old Posted Aug 5, 2014, 6:19 PM
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^ Not normally a fan of recladding brutalist buildings, but that one actually kind of works.
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I agree!

Here's an adaptive reuse/reclad of an abandoned church in Calgary. A new Buddhist Temple Got Buddha?




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Nothing big, but the Calgary Buddhist Temple in Bridgeland is being renovated by Robert Pashuck Architects. It's over a 100 year old building that was originally a Ukrainian Church, so I assume not in the best shape, and they want to update it to be a little more in keeping with their own style. Apparently it's taken over 12 years of fundraising to get this moving.

Will go from this:



To this:



Looks like a nice tasteful renovation.
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Hamilton's ArcelorMittal Dofasco Main Office is getting a reclad...

Re-clad rendering:

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How the building currently looks:

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The project involves the re-cladding of a five storey office building, constructed in 1963, originally clad in a unitized curtainwall system with porcelain enamel steel spandrel panels, and double glazing with integral blinds. The challenge has been to formulate a proposal in which the users can continue to occupy the building during construction. The total area of recladding is 65,000ft2.

Working with a curtainwall retrofit specialist, the proposal is to clad and glaze over the existing system, then remove the existing glazing from the interior. Several design options have been developed, working with the restrictions of the existing mullion spacing.


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Old Posted Oct 5, 2014, 11:52 PM
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^ Most reclads are pretty awful, negating the original intent of the design, that last one is a good example.
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Old Posted Oct 6, 2014, 12:11 AM
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I agree, they should keep the same cladding for the last one. Probably the owners cheaped out.
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Old Posted Oct 6, 2014, 1:39 AM
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Glad to see the last two posts - I thought it might just be me. Not a good reclad, imho.
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Old Posted Oct 6, 2014, 4:53 AM
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I'm not a fan of the Dofasco re-clad either. It completely wrecks the 60's international style of the building.

There are a couple smaller buildings a few doors down that were built to match the main office. They won't be getting a re-clad so they won't match anymore...

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I'm not a fan of the Dofasco re-clad either. It completely wrecks the 60's international style of the building.
I have the same feeling. Burlington St. is pretty ugly for obvious reasons, but that building stands out and its exterior is worth cleaning up but maintaining the current look. Especially considering that any future brownfield redevelopments in that area are likely to result in plainly designed commercial/industrial structures.

The text notes "Several design options have been developed" so hopefully this is just an example of one of them.
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Another horrible reclad in the Sault. I got up close to it and all they are doing is putting the siding over top of the bricks.
There is even a small air space between the bricks and the aluminium.

Recladding an apartment building on Kohler Street. Giving it the Sault treatment (bricks to aluminium siding).


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