Performance Court (150 Elgin) | 90.5m | 21 fl | Completed - Page 5

citizen j · #81 Posted **Jun 5, 2008, 7:23 PM**

^ You kill me! Little bits of lunch are now scattered across my keyboard.

Aylmer · #82 Posted **Jun 6, 2008, 10:52 AM**

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Originally Posted by clynnog

The Diana Holmes Concert Hall...complete with staggered height limits.

Diana Homes

Ryersonian · #83 Posted **Jun 6, 2008, 12:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by clynnog

The Diana Holmes Concert Hall...complete with staggered height limits.

hilarious...i love it!

c_speed3108 · #84 Posted **Jun 16, 2008, 7:45 PM**

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Man who conceived Ottawa concert hall dream renews it

Last Updated: Monday, June 16, 2008 | 1:41 PM ET
CBC News

The man who first dreamed up a recent plan to build a community concert hall in downtown Ottawa has launched a new version to replace the one that failed earlier this spring.

Julian Armour, who resigned abruptly as artistic director of the Ottawa Chamber Music Society last year, is leading a group called The Friends of the Concert Hall, which released its new plan Monday.

The group includes many people involved in the previous plan. The new proposal again calls for the concert hall to be built as part of a residential and commercial development at 150 Elgin St., and the group said it has been in talks with the site's developer, Morguard.

The original project was started and led by Armour until he left the society he founded in March 2007, and was backed by funding commitments from all three levels of government.

However, organizers were unable to raise enough private money by a deadline imposed by the City of Ottawa after several earlier deadline extensions. That prompted the city to cancel its funding for the project.

The new plan includes a fundraising drive that will kick off in September.

Armour's group, which includes representatives from the Ottawa Choral Society and the Ottawa Jazz Festival, is promoting the concert hall as a venue for all kinds of music, not just classical.

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sgera · #85 Posted **Jan 3, 2009, 3:21 AM**

is this dead? what are the chances of this being constructed?

Davis137 · #86 Posted **Feb 15, 2009, 6:17 PM**

Emporis still lists this project as approved...

cityguy · #87 Posted **Feb 17, 2009, 10:18 AM**

Don't believe everything you read.

drawarc · #88 Posted **Jul 9, 2009, 9:24 PM**

Latest renderings from DCYSA's website. They appeared to have widened the tower quite a bit, looks as massive as Place Bell.

http://www.dcysa.ca/4-bureaux-offices/4602-150-Elgin/

rocketphish · #89 Posted **Jul 9, 2009, 10:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by theKpa

Latest renderings from DCYSA's website. They appeared to have widened the tower quite a bit, looks as massive as Place Bell.

http://www.dcysa.ca/4-bureaux-offices/4602-150-Elgin/

What an uninspiring piece of architecture! They must have been given a minimal budget to work with, and assigned this job to one of their junior designers.

And wow, has it ever been bulked-up in size since the early renderings. It has now clearly been redesigned to take up every last square inch of the site (in footprint and in height) with little regard to aesthetics. It has that look of having been added-onto several times over the years, like some old farmhouses, resulting in a real lack of cohesion.

The latest inclusion of green rooves is a nice touch, although they will only benefit the building owners, and the residents/offices above them. If only this would start a trend in downtown Ottawa.

The inclusion of the faux gothic arches along the top two sides, and the "copper" roof never looked liked they belonged in the first place, and they still don't. Why do so many buildings in Ottawa feel that they have to pay homage to the parliament buildings? Do something different, people! Be bold!

drawarc · #90 Posted **Jul 9, 2009, 11:21 PM**

I admit I'm also not sure about the new design, I wish they kept the slender tower and were able to add more floors...or make it two towers, like Bill Teron's original vision from a few years ago.

adam-machiavelli · #91 Posted **Jul 9, 2009, 11:27 PM**

Regardless of the design, I doubt that this will be built anytime soon.

AuxTown · #92 Posted **Jul 10, 2009, 12:44 AM**

What a piece of crap. It was already borderline with the 1990's style architecture, but why turn it into such a beast? I would much rather have them build two taller towers. The first a slightly taller version of the original design and the other a 30-storey sleder glass box of the design that they so brutally tacked on to the side of it in this rendering. The current rendering reminds me too much of the casino in Niagara Falls NY:

cityguy · #93 Posted **Jul 10, 2009, 1:13 AM**

That looks just awful,I can't imagine and design firm looking at that and saying they did a great job of this one.

Davis137 · #94 Posted **Jul 10, 2009, 11:39 AM**

Yeah, it doesn't look that great...looks like a building designed back in the early-mid 90's. The least they could do is attempt to get an approval for 30 storeys as everything else around there is close to 30 anyways, so any planes of view to the peace tower are inconciquncial...

Zach6668 · #95 Posted **Jul 11, 2009, 12:59 PM**

eh, I don't mind the looks, but I'm not trained in any way in any form of historical architecture.

Aylmer · #96 Posted **Jul 11, 2009, 1:46 PM**

If this goes through looking like that, it's going to go on my "Buildings to smite" list.

Jamaican-Phoenix · #97 Posted **Jul 11, 2009, 2:48 PM**

A resounding "ehh". Neither inspiring nor entirely bland. Typical Ottawa.

bikegypsy · #98 Posted **Jul 11, 2009, 3:23 PM**

A good exemple of post-parlementhillism... cringe

m0nkyman · #99 Posted **Jul 11, 2009, 5:29 PM**

It looks like it might be decent at street level, in which case I will like it. And how it looks depends on the execution. No matter how good or bad the render, build quality is what makes a building.

ty7er · #**100** Posted **Jul 12, 2009, 5:50 AM**

I found this link today.

www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=208628

According to these guys this project has been approved. But like someone else mentioned earlier in this thread, 'don't believe everything you read.' Has anyone else heard about this? Has it really been approved?