8X on the Park | 98m | 36Fl | Completed

[jlousa]

Here's the project I posted about last week in the Downtown thread. Details are now public.

Rezoning Application - 508 Helmcken Street
GBL Architects Inc. has applied to the City of Vancouver to rezone 508 Helmcken Street from DD (Downtown) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District. The proposal is for a 36-storey mixed use building including:

•454 residential units, of which 110 are proposed as market rental, and a private pre-school and kindergarten;
•a building height of 97.54 m (320 ft.); and,
•a floor area of 365,334 sq. ft. and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 17.4
The applicant proposes to provide social housing at 1077-1099 Richards Street, including replacement housing for Jubilee House residents currently located at 508 Helmcken Street, as a public benefit associated with this rezoning application.

The proposal fits just under the F1.1 (Choklit Park) view cone but does cut into the C2.1 view cone, to me it looks like it could've been avoided as it just grazes the site, but they are instead asking the city for permission to breach it. The developer behind it is Brenhill.

•Statistics
http://former.vancouver.ca/commsvcs/...Statistics.pdf

•Context Plan and Aerial
http://former.vancouver.ca/commsvcs/...lan_Aerial.pdf

•Building Grades
http://former.vancouver.ca/commsvcs/...dingGrades.pdf

•Context Massing and Rezoning Rationale
http://former.vancouver.ca/commsvcs/...gRationale.pdf

•View Cones
http://former.vancouver.ca/commsvcs/.../ViewCones.pdf

•Shanow Analysis
http://former.vancouver.ca/commsvcs/...owAnalysis.pdf

•Massing and Footprint Comparison
http://former.vancouver.ca/commsvcs/...Comparison.pdf

•Tower Comparison
http://former.vancouver.ca/commsvcs/...Comparison.pdf

•Photo Montage
http://former.vancouver.ca/commsvcs/...otoMontage.pdf

•Design Rationale
http://former.vancouver.ca/commsvcs/...nRationale.pdf

•Sustainability Rationale
http://former.vancouver.ca/commsvcs/...yRationale.pdf

•View Impact Analysis
http://former.vancouver.ca/commsvcs/...ctAnalysis.pdf

•Parking Plans
http://former.vancouver.ca/commsvcs/...rkingPlans.pdf

•Floor and Roof Plans
http://former.vancouver.ca/commsvcs/..._RoofPlans.pdf

•Building Elevations

http://former.vancouver.ca/commsvcs/...Elevations.pdf

•Building Sections
http://former.vancouver.ca/commsvcs/...ngSections.pdf

•Landscape Plan
http://former.vancouver.ca/commsvcs/...dscapePlan.pdf

•FSR Calculations
http://former.vancouver.ca/commsvcs/...lculations.pdf

The design is better then the norm but certainly not amazing. Surprised by the monsterous FSR being proposed for this area though. Will be interesting to see this one work thru the system.