WC Central Park | 84m, 85m, 81m, 20m | 29fl, 30fl, 28fl, 6fl | Completed - Page 11

Marshal · #**201** Posted **Apr 11, 2017, 6:42 AM**

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Originally Posted by dleung

Very tight curve at the top floor podium in the last pic... which tends to look especially ugly if the only materials in the budget are window wall and no curved glass.

Why exactly is a faceted curve ugly by definition?

dleung · #**202** Posted **Apr 12, 2017, 3:52 AM**

Not necessarily. If it's faceted curve, play up the facets (see below). It only looks cheap when it tries to be a smooth curve but isn't.

officedweller · #**203** Posted **Apr 21, 2017, 12:32 AM**

From GBL twitter.
The spandrel kills the look of the corner.

https://twitter.com/GBLArchitects

vanman · #**204** Posted **Apr 21, 2017, 3:32 AM**

That corner looks cheap and unfinished. Like the grey mullions and white spandrel are waiting to be peeled off to reveal the actual cladding underneath.

Jebby · #**205** Posted **Apr 21, 2017, 3:16 PM**

I really don't understand why architects would allow things like that to happen to their projects. Is it really so difficult to get a color of spandrel that doesn't stick out like a sore thumb and cheapen the entire design?

Vin · #**206** Posted **Apr 21, 2017, 4:53 PM**

I don't mind white spandrels. On the bright side, at least they didn't use seafoam ones.

Jebby · #**207** Posted **Apr 21, 2017, 5:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by Vin

I don't mind white spandrels. On the bright side, at least they didn't use seafoam ones.

Seafoam even looks better than white.

officedweller · #**208** Posted **May 5, 2017, 10:50 PM**

From GBL twitter May 4th:

https://twitter.com/GBLArchitects

officedweller · #**209** Posted **Jul 5, 2017, 7:51 PM**

From 2x6 Construction twitter July 1st:

https://twitter.com/2x6Construction

Vin · #**210** Posted **Jul 5, 2017, 8:25 PM**

One of the best looking podium buildings we have so far. Thank you Burnaby for enabling this "gateway building project" to happen in Vancouver.

Urban recluse · #**211** Posted **Jul 5, 2017, 8:56 PM**

Very nice. I know exactly where in Winnipeg that would go.

officedweller · #**212** Posted **Sep 29, 2017, 10:39 PM**

September 22nd:

https://twitter.com/GBLArchitects

https://twitter.com/GBLArchitects

and 23,000 sq ft office space for Mosaic BC :

https://twitter.com/VanMayorsOffice/...40253999316992

Klazu · #**213** Posted **Sep 30, 2017, 12:22 AM**

The podium is fine, but the tower came out horrible vs. the other two towers in the same complex. That random spandrel on that one floor towards the bottom is just an icing on the cake.

officedweller · #**214** Posted **Nov 29, 2017, 12:57 AM**

Taken by City of Rain @ SkyRise cIties Nov 25th:

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Originally Posted by City Of Rain, post: 1279918, member: 70034

Wow, more than 2 months since the last update!

IMG_0918 by Hung Lam, on Flickr

IMG_0921 by Hung Lam, on Flickr

IMG_0923 by Hung Lam, on Flickr

IMG_0925 by Hung Lam, on Flickr

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Originally Posted by City Of Rain, post: 1279919, member: 70034

^^^^

IMG_0927 by Hung Lam, on Flickr

IMG_0931 by Hung Lam, on Flickr

IMG_0934 by Hung Lam, on Flickr

IMG_0949 by Hung Lam, on Flickr

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Originally Posted by City Of Rain, post: 1279922, member: 70034

^^^^

IMG_0950 by Hung Lam, on Flickr

IMG_0951 by Hung Lam, on Flickr

IMG_0938 by Hung Lam, on Flickr

IMG_0936 by Hung Lam, on Flickr

csbvan · #**215** Posted **Nov 29, 2017, 1:20 AM**

What a mess. The only cohesive aspect of this project is the copious amounts of spandrel puked all over it.

giallo · #**216** Posted **Nov 29, 2017, 3:48 AM**

Yikes.

Besides the podium's shape, it looks as bad (or even worse) than the tower portion. And the way the tower is angled off of the podium looks pretty weird. I'd go as far to say that this podium/tower combo looks borderline hideous.

A lot of much needed new apartments though, so that's a plus.

s211 · #**217** Posted **Nov 29, 2017, 8:03 PM**

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Originally Posted by csbvan

What a mess. The only cohesive aspect of this project is the copious amounts of spandrel puked all over it.

It's got my vote to be the illustration for "clunky" on dictionary.com.

Vin · #**218** Posted **Nov 29, 2017, 8:13 PM**

A supposedly pride-boosting "welcome to progressive Vancouver", cross-jurisdictional boundary's gateway project (Like the Marine Gateway and East Fraserlands), this is what we get. Well, at least there is density increase here, and that Vancouver has a taller building than the Telus boot across on the Burnaby side...that's seriously ego-boosting.

phesto · #**219** Posted **Nov 29, 2017, 8:22 PM**

I like the massing, but yeah agreed - what a mess!

I usually like GBL's designs; this one must've lost control to Wall's budget engineering somewhere along the way...

officedweller · #**220** Posted **Nov 29, 2017, 10:17 PM**

Apart from the spandrel - a given I suppose - I think it's fine along Boundary
- it's just the overhanging tower on the last phase that looks weird (and the spandrel below it)