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Some recent Halifax updates:

Elevation on Robie:



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7177 Quinpool:


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The Trinity/New Moxy Hotel:




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The Trinity/New Moxy Hotel
This Cogswell/Gottingen area is improving by leaps and bounds but still has the strange Staples. It was up for sale and I wonder if it'll be torn down soon.

It's interesting how downtown Halifax hotel options have expanded even during the pandemic and post-pandemic period. It used to have very mediocre hotel options but Muir, Moxy, and Sutton Place are all new and different for that market. I would still say it doesn't have a lot of higher-end major hotels, but maybe that will change in the coming years.

Skye includes a hotel component but with fewer than 100 rooms. Sutton Place is 262 rooms.
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Impressive Halifax updates! Definitely a slate of projects worth being proud about.
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7177 Quinpool Rd is new and different for the city as a tall, narrow tower with decorative offset balconies. The jury's still out on how it will ultimately look but I could see it impacting the local culture somewhat around what kind of buildings people want or feel are appropriate in different places. The new library built a decade or so ago had an impact on the acceptance of modern architectural styles.

There was a group of people who were traumatized by 60's/70's projects like Fenwick and the Maritime Centre and basically viewed highrises as concrete blobs to be minimized (ironically they often pushed for planning rules that encouraged uglier squat buildings). They would assume that an area like the Northwest Arm would look best with as little development as possible. I think that perception is becoming less common now, and NS is mostly wilderness and small towns or villages so hopefully people can eventually accept that it can be interesting and useful to urbanize a small number of these natural settings.


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Meanwhile, in Saskatoon, we have what might be Canada's Funniest Construction Project on the go, Baydo Towers...

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^^^ funniest.. i'd add Ugliest to that... at least until that KW superwide starts up.
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^^^ funniest.. i'd add Ugliest to that... at least until that KW superwide starts up.
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Impressive Halifax updates! Definitely a slate of projects worth being proud about.
Halifax may be one hour ahead of Ottawa in time, but in modern architecture it is 20 years ahead.
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^^^ funniest.. i'd add Ugliest to that... at least until that KW superwide starts up.
These towers look very much like the literal 100+ nearly identical buildings going up in Ottawa, that we locally call 'CharcWhites'.
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These towers look very much like the literal 100+ nearly identical buildings going up in Ottawa, that we locally call 'CharcWhites'.
you're right.. and that's sad...particularly for a capital city.
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I don't know. Quantity and height is impressive but, there's also of mediocre there. I would like to give the edge to Halifax 5 to 10 years ago. I think there's enough to give today the edge

Richmond Yard is interesting. The cladding is decent. The main tower is odd but, the cladding pulls it off. The main tower in relation to the completed first phase doesn't feel v cohesive and homey.
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Ottawa's prevalent style is head and shoulders above Baydo. Wait till it's done. You'll like grey a whole lot more.
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Nice work Coastalkid. That was the first real project run down Ive ever seen for Halifax.
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Ottawa's prevalent style is head and shoulders above Baydo. Wait till it's done. You'll like grey a whole lot more.
Not confident that I will....

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Old Posted Oct 24, 2023, 11:23 PM
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Nice work Coastalkid. That was the first real project run down Ive ever seen for Halifax.
There are a lot of towers under construction not pictured there although most are just at a site prep or excavation phase so not very interesting. A lot of urban infill type construction is lowrise. Dartmouth in particular is going to get a lot of new towers relative to what is there today.

The total crane count is probably in the 30-40 range or maybe higher (I think it was 36 or something a while ago). I would say the new crop of buildings coming up generally looks a bit nicer than the current ones pictured here, although the quality was actually better around the late 2010's. Part of what happened is that the bank office leases were up so they moved into prime new office buildings (TD, BMO, RBC), and a new convention centre was built. Queen's Marque is part office and got Stewart McKelvey, largest law firm in the region. These days there is no office demand but tons of demand for housing. It is more that the type of project shifted rather than architectural standards backpedaling.
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