745 Thurlow St | 91m | 23fl | Completed

[LotusLand]

I'm surprised there would be no retail at the corner of Alberni and Thurlow. Plus any retail that goes into that office must be high end? It's also surprising that the space across Burberry is still vacant. I for sure some high end company would move in there.

[red-paladin]

Looks great. It's going to be cool to watch this one go up. Nice to see another office tower for a change!
It does look a bit like Bentall 5 crossed with Central City.
As for retail, probably the would have a coffee shop in the lobby like Shaw Tower. Everyone likes the rent money they generate compared to a big empty ground floor.

[hollywoodnorth]

is that 2 trees I see up top!

[Metro-One]

What happens when the trees on top grow over the 300 foot limit? hehehehe.

I hope there is a lighting feature or a logo that goes with this tower.

[PaperTiger]

Does this mean BCIMC is going ahead? Last time I heard they were on hold until the office market picks up. Downtown vacancies have been growing in recent months, despite the overall improvement to the economy.

I hope they do go ahead, it would position themselves well for the next upswing. Plus, they can afford it.

[Canadian Mind]

Originally Posted by jlousa

Figured it's time to dig this thread back out of hibernation. There is an application before the city to increase this project from 22 floors to 23floors, the height will remain the same at 300', the fsr will increase to 16.1 (418,000sqft) that's a very large project. Some new updated renders in the pdfs.

Context Plan
http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/plannin...ts/context.pdf

Elevations
http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/plannin...ts/context.pdf

Ground Floor Plan
http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/plannin.../groundflr.pdf

Wow, this building is gonna be very fat. That's almost 20 000square feet per floor.

[whatnext]

Originally Posted by PaperTiger

Does this mean BCIMC is going ahead? Last time I heard they were on hold until the office market picks up. Downtown vacancies have been growing in recent months, despite the overall improvement to the economy.

I hope they do go ahead, it would position themselves well for the next upswing. Plus, they can afford it.

Today's Sun reporting that downtown vacancy rate edged down to 5.8% in Q4.

Nice to see an office tower, with it attendant jobs, being planned downtown.

[officedweller]

Having the office lobby doors on the corner provides more animation to the corner than having a store there.

[Mininari]

Hey, fat is not bad for an office tower as it provides larger floorplates.
Would Bentall be looking to move forward next spring/summer?

[SFUVancouver]

I snapped a couple photos of the model for Bentall 6 through the window of B+B Scale Models on Granville Island.

[Yume-sama]

Hmm. Interesting... it has a strong resemblance to something

[VanHowe]

That is uncanny. LOL

[Hed Kandi]

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[trofirhen]

The planned Bentall 6 is original and unusual in its asymmetricality, but IMHO it looks top-heavy, and somehow not pleasing to the eye. It triggers thoughts of that office building constructed years ago in downtown Seattle on a pedestal. While that is also very original, there is, again IMHO a singular ugliness to it. But who cares? My tastes usually run against the grain anyway.

[dleung]

I wouldn't mind if it tilted in one direction (for some very good reason), but this just looks cartoony. The podium also looks about as urban as an outlet mall or lifestyle centre.

[flight_from_kamakura]

^ and it seems sort of a weird fit for the site. still, nice to have some variation in there. nice find, od.

[jlousa]

You can't see the podium in those pics, at least not the podium that matters, that would be the side fronting the alley, note the parkade entrance.

[officedweller]

Originally Posted by flight_from_kamakura

^ and it seems sort of a weird fit for the site. still, nice to have some variation in there. nice find, od.

That was SFUVancouver who posted those.

I agree that it looks topheavy - at least from that angle. I think the elevations showed a vertical facade facing Carmanah Plaza.
The odd thing is that it won't be allowed to hang over the sidewalk (due to setbacks) so from a distance (from the north), its angularity may be be hidden by Shangri-La - either that or its angularity will be highlighted by the verticality of Shangri-La so close by.

[dleung]

Originally Posted by jlousa

You can't see the podium in those pics, at least not the podium that matters, that would be the side fronting the alley, note the parkade entrance.

I know that, but it just lacks a certain rigor (like in an outlet mall) with the way the diagonal slash of the awning kills any semblance of a street wall (not that there was much of one considering the podium's only 2 stories). And just how much energy are they going to save on cooling by tilting the south facad... if it is an architectural feature, it should have been saved for the north side where it can actually be appreciated from the street, not to mention its benefit in redcing the wind canyon effect for pedestrians, awning or not.

Unles there's a wall centre style switcheroo at the last minute, expect glass similar to RBC centre in Toronto:

[s211]

Originally Posted by Yume-sama

Hmm. Interesting... it has a strong resemblance to something

I had the same thought, also. You beat me to the punch!