Edinburgh Common (100 Landry)| ? m| 20-25 fl |U/C

Cre47 · #1 Posted: **Oct 29, 2007, 7:03 PM**

This is another major future project by Cladrige and quite resembling that the current project on Rideau Street, that is currently under preparation for removing the contaminants there.The number of floors is not sure, because some plans show about 25 floors and others 20 so I've put 20-25 floors.

http://ottawa.ca/calendar/ottawa/cit...M-APR-0217.htm

gatt · #2 Posted: **Oct 29, 2007, 10:30 PM**

it was suppose to be 25 storeys but it's going to be 20.nimby's.

Yroc · #3 Posted: **Oct 30, 2007, 12:53 AM**

Current pics of contruction

harls · #4 Posted: **Nov 6, 2007, 1:02 AM**

Rendering - it's a little nicer than the one on Claridge's site:

http://www.claridgehomes.com/s/ottaw.../siteplan.html

credit - DCYSA Architects

clynnog · #5 Posted: **Nov 6, 2007, 2:33 AM**

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Originally Posted by harls

Rendering - it's a little nicer than the one on Claridge's site:

http://www.claridgehomes.com/s/ottaw.../siteplan.html

credit - DCYSA Architects

Minor point Harls...I believe the architectural firm is known as DCYSM...they are Montreal based with a minor office here in Ottawa. Interesting that 3 of the cars are all blurry and one car is in focus.

harls · #6 Posted: **Nov 6, 2007, 2:53 AM**

Hm, really? I think the 'M' was replaced recently.. could be wrong.

Jamaican-Phoenix · #7 Posted: **Nov 6, 2007, 3:08 AM**

Wow, that new artist's concept of the Edinburgh Common has the exact same colours and layout as Claridge Plaza. Methinks someone got confused during construction...

waterloowarrior · #8 Posted: **Nov 6, 2007, 3:09 AM**

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Montreal, August 29th. 2007
To our valued colleagues, clients and friends,
The associates at DCYSM Architecture + Design are pleased to announce the re-organization of their firm, designed to best manage the ongoing growth of their practice.
As of October 1, 2007, the following will come into effect:
Alain-Serge Marchandwill operate as Groupe Marchand and Associates Architecture & Design. Alain-Serge will continue to serve his clientele with the help of his team of more than 25 staff members in their existing premises, and with the full support of his current partners. As always, his clients can count on Alain-Serge and his team’s full dedication, talent and expertise to complete all projects currently under his management and those in the future.
Roger Desmarais, André Cousineau, Harry Yaghjian and Bruno St-Jean will see their partnership grow to welcome a number of new associates, and will now operate under the name of DCYSA Architecture + Design. Together with the founding partners, these new associates and their dedicated team will continue to provide their clients with the highest level of professional service that has made them leaders in their field.
We are happy to share this news with you and look forward to continuing to work together in the future.

Roger Desmarais & Alain-Serge Marchand

jeremy_haak · #9 Posted: **Nov 6, 2007, 5:12 AM**

Am I the only one who finds this trend to stick these 'crowns' on the top of buildings rather disappointing? It's a rather dissatisfying architectural flourish.

citizen j · #10 Posted: **Nov 6, 2007, 6:11 AM**

^Yes, I'd rather see set-backs or a point tower, or something a little more architecturally integral in the way of ornamentation. I think the proposal for Bank/James is a good example. But give me a building with a crown/party hat over the kind of unadorned box seen in that photo further up the thread. Reminds me of the Pruitt-Igoe housing project, and we all know what came of that.

cityguy · #11 Posted: **Nov 6, 2007, 12:30 PM**

cLARIDGE PROBABLY SAVED MONEY BY PHOTOCOPYING,THR PLANS OF CLARIDGE PLAZA.

clynnog · #12 Posted: **Nov 6, 2007, 1:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by harls

Hm, really? I think the 'M' was replaced recently.. could be wrong.

Harls...my apologies re DCYSM/DCYSA. I dealt with that firm about 2-3 years ago when they were DCYSM.

harls · #13 Posted: **Nov 6, 2007, 8:10 PM**

^ no problem - it happened fairly recently, anyways.

Ottawade · #14 Posted: **Jan 8, 2008, 1:21 AM**

I went and took a look at the sales center this weekend. The internal layout of the units is pretty bad compared to the Plaza ones, but the price is substantially lower when you factor in everything they throw in.

It kinda got me thinking although its further out of centertown or the market than I'd like to be from one of those higher floors facing the Vanier parkway you probably have a half decent view of downtown Ottawa and the river.

Surrealplaces · #15 Posted: **Jan 24, 2008, 2:05 AM**

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Originally Posted by harls

Rendering - it's a little nicer than the one on Claridge's site:

http://www.claridgehomes.com/s/ottaw.../siteplan.html

credit - DCYSA Architects

Not bad looking buildings.

O-Town Hockey · #16 Posted: **Jan 24, 2008, 2:32 AM**

I hope those green accents are not the same colour used in Claridge Plaza. That colour leaves a lot to be desired and really doesn't fit in on Rideau. Maybe it will fit in better in the summer once there is more green around.

Mille Sabords · #17 Posted: **Jan 24, 2008, 5:36 PM**

The condo building at Edinburgh Common has been renamed The Lalique (I noticed the new ad this weekend in the paper).

Ottawade - did you happen to count the red dots on the sales board?

Ottawade · #18 Posted: **Jan 24, 2008, 6:41 PM**

I would say about 50% of the town homes were sold. I'm unsure about the "urban flats". I think they literally just got the plans for the condos the weekend i visited because they didn't even give me the prices for the individual units yet, just the min/max. They also had tons of freebies, granite counters, all appliances, free parking space, etc for the earlier buyers and the prices were definitely low. If the unit layouts weren't so bad I might have even considered it, but its a little farther out of the core than I would like to be.

To more directly answer your question I would say very few units were sold.

Mille Sabords · #19 Posted: **Jan 24, 2008, 7:43 PM**

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Originally Posted by Ottawade

I would say about 50% of the town homes were sold. I'm unsure about the "urban flats". I think they literally just got the plans for the condos the weekend i visited because they didn't even give me the prices for the individual units yet, just the min/max. They also had tons of freebies, granite counters, all appliances, free parking space, etc for the earlier buyers and the prices were definitely low. If the unit layouts weren't so bad I might have even considered it, but its a little farther out of the core than I would like to be.

To more directly answer your question I would say very few units were sold.

Thanks. That is one site where Claridge badly misread the market. They would've been better off covering more of the site with stacked towns, leaving no green space, and doing away with the towers. There's enough green space next to the water anyway. I've headr that the second tower will be a rental - makes you wanna buy one of their condos even more, doesn't it? (I'm being ironic here - but most of the Mr. & Mrs. Buyer out there would definitely wince at buying next to a rental - believe you me)

Ottawade · #20 Posted: **Jan 24, 2008, 9:17 PM**

Ya, its funny everything is just off the mark by a tiny amount, but those tiny amounts compound into a giant "meh".

Location is just a step further out of the core than desired for a tower, the floorplans are kinda weird, the common space especially and as the squarefootage rises within a category the majority of the space ends up being used for hallways and other useless space. It's got a nice view (at least facing the parkway) and good greenspace, but out your front door is vanier which has little appeal. Transpo is kinda meh. Too bad the price is right.

Your right tho. I would probably townhouse if I had the money. They start at 306k and have much nicer layouts.