Atrium Building | 7-storeys | Office, commercial

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Atrium-renderingThe Atrium Building covers a large chunk of a city block bounded by Blanshard, Johnson and Yates streets, and the Telus Building to the east.

The design features a glass atrium that is intended to be a public space during normal business hours and can be adapted to serve as a music venue in the evenings. Ground floor commercial units will envelope the north, south and west sides of the building. Materials include fine grained concrete running in bands horizontally across the facade and recycled bronze/copper running vertically.

Construction began in July 2008.

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Project Statistics

  • Status: Under construction
  • Construction Dates
    Began: 2008
    Completed: 2010
  • Floor Count: 7
  • Floorspace: 200,000 sq. ft.
  • Building uses
    Office, commercial
  • Structural types
    Lowrise
  • Address: 800 Yates Street
  • Municipality: Victoria
  • Official Project Website

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This project's public discussion on VibrantVictoria.ca

Below are the five latest responses to the dedicated discussion thread for this project:

VicHockeyFan

Oct 02, 2012 at 1:37 pm

The I ❤ Downtown Victoria on Facebook worldwide HQ will be moving a substantial portion of our considerable North American operations to the Atrium later this month.

We'll be test-driving a unit or two at REGUS for at least a few weeks, to see how the upper-end lives. :D

The only hold-up right now is while engineers see if they have enough bandwidth coming into the building to support us, and BCF. We don't want to be responsible for knocking the fleet monitoring infrastructure offline, while someone is having sex on the bridge of the Northern Expedition right as it heads for Gil Island.

sebberry

Oct 02, 2012 at 1:52 pm

Wow, I didn't know a facebook page needed an office as luxurious and as cutting edge as that one :D

VicHockeyFan

Oct 02, 2012 at 2:00 pm

Quote: Wow, I didn't know a facebook page needed an office as luxurious and as cutting edge as that one :D


Need might not be the right term. But it is all about appearance. The fact is, we run the operation off an old iPhone 3G, so we don't even need a large drawer, yet alone a desk, yet alone an office. We did get some favourable terms. :rtfm:

VicHockeyFan

Oct 02, 2012 at 5:27 pm

With 16,407 fans, I ❤ Downtown Victoria now has more fans than the populations of each of:

Esquimalt
Metchosin
Central Saanich
North Saanich
Sidney
Highlands
Colwood
Sooke
View Royal

So soon we'll need an office larger than the CRD building.

Inching towards 1/3 the circulation of the Times-Colonist.

Mike K.

Oct 02, 2012 at 9:06 pm

Regus is having a heck of a time finding occupants for their offices at the Atrium. I remember that before we leased our current office in Saanich our office mates (who we shared our previous office with) looked at Regus' offerings before leasing their own space elsewhere. That must have been back in late 2010 or early 2011.

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