[Halifax] The Jade & Green Lantern (1595 Barrington) | Completed - Page 26

Jonovision · #**501** Posted **May 19, 2018, 7:29 PM**

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someone123 · #**502** Posted **May 31, 2018, 9:54 PM**

Here's a construction video:

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bjc6AfCn...by=halifaxjeff

Jonovision · #**503** Posted **Jun 15, 2018, 3:40 PM**

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Keith P. · #**504** Posted **Jun 15, 2018, 4:39 PM**

I never noticed the Premiere Suites signage on the Maple previously.

FuzzyWuz · #**505** Posted **Jun 16, 2018, 7:11 PM**

For a brief moment I read the number of metres as the number of floors. AAAAAAAHHH!!!!!! dang. nevermind....

eastcoastal · #**506** Posted **Jun 18, 2018, 3:43 PM**

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Originally Posted by Keith P.

I never noticed the Premiere Suites signage on the Maple previously.

I hadn't either. Took me a moment to figure out what I was looking at.

Jonovision · #**507** Posted **Jun 25, 2018, 9:43 PM**

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Jonovision · #**508** Posted **Jul 12, 2018, 4:15 PM**

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Jonovision · #**509** Posted **Jul 26, 2018, 3:25 PM**

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someone123 · #**510** Posted **Jul 28, 2018, 6:13 PM**

An interesting angle:

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It looks like somebody's doing work on the Green Lantern facade on the right?

Does anybody know to what degree these will be separate buildings? Will the parking levels be connected? The main levels?

They should be up to Barrington soon. It'll be interesting to watch the old Discovery Centre facade go back on.

IanWatson · #**511** Posted **Jul 31, 2018, 12:30 PM**

IIRC, parking will be connected, the main floors will not.

Jonovision · #**512** Posted **Aug 16, 2018, 4:23 PM**

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someone123 · #**513** Posted **Aug 16, 2018, 4:36 PM**

My initial reaction is that the rear ceiling heights seem low but I guess they have to line those up with the original facade if they intend to restore it:

https://www.google.com/maps/@44.6464...7i13312!8i6656

The rear of the old building was pretty uninteresting.

You can see a Granville Street elevation for the new development here: http://legacycontent.halifax.ca/boar.../Case01231.pdf

Not sure if this is what they plan to follow but it shows a modern facade with a garage entrance, building entrance, and some small windows/storefronts. Only the Barrington and Sackville sides will resemble the original building. The Sackville elevation shows a new garage entrance too, which is kind of unfortunate.

Keith P. · #**514** Posted **Aug 16, 2018, 5:20 PM**

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Originally Posted by someone123

You can see a Granville Street elevation for the new development here: http://legacycontent.halifax.ca/boar.../Case01231.pdf

Not sure if this is what they plan to follow but it shows a modern facade with a garage entrance, building entrance, and some small windows/storefronts. Only the Barrington and Sackville sides will resemble the original building. The Sackville elevation shows a new garage entrance too, which is kind of unfortunate.

Well, the building needs parking and the entrances have to be somewhere. It appears they are including it on at least 2 levels; perhaps they do not interconnect.

It is rather remarkable that the original work on this project started over 10 years ago. Many of the names on those documents are long gone from HRM or deceased.

The floorplans included show it as all residential and nothing larger than a 1 bedroom plus den at 800 sq ft. If it goes ahead on that basis it will be interesting to see how it competes with the Roy one block over.

someone123 · #**515** Posted **Aug 28, 2018, 5:44 PM**

Time lapse video of construction:

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm3P_H8nCm0

HFXRIC · #**516** Posted **Sep 2, 2018, 1:40 PM**

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=3&theater

Jonovision · #**517** Posted **Sep 3, 2018, 9:36 PM**

About a week old now.

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Jonovision · #**518** Posted **Sep 13, 2018, 3:46 PM**

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someone123 · #**519** Posted **Sep 20, 2018, 9:56 PM**

The restoration work:

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The masonry looks good from what I can tell. I wonder why they didn't go with a higher contrast colour for the painted parts though. Is that the final colour? The renderings show tan and actually white could look good here too. I guess originally it was probably exposed stone.

The corner of Barrington and Sackville is going to look quite sharp when construction wraps up (assuming the Tramway Building work happens).

OldDartmouthMark · #**520** Posted **Sep 21, 2018, 3:26 PM**

Thanks for posting that! I think their work looks great so far.

I am curious, though, as to why they appear to be painting the stonework and not just cleaning it up to bring out the natural finish of it.

The Google map image from 2102 makes it appear that it was originally a brown/grey sandstone under all that grime, that should look pretty nice when cleaned up.

https://goo.gl/maps/hppDbM7Bgow

This image from 1945 shows not much contrast between the stone and brick masonry, though the building was almost 50 years old by that time and likely already stained from environmental fallout like coal smoke, etc., so it's hard to tell how it may have looked when it was new.

https://novascotia.ca/archives/EastC...ves.asp?ID=297

Regardless, this is shaping up nicely and still stands to be one of my favourite developments on Barrington.