Proposal for three 12 storey buildings in downtown Langford....
Let's hope this rendering is very preliminary and that the pitched roof concept is nixed before construction begins.
Posted 29 May 2019 - 07:26 AM
^ The pitched roofs evoke the single-family character of the neighbourhood, though [/sarcasm]
Posted 29 May 2019 - 07:26 AM
I don't mind the pitched roofs, but certainly not with what looks like plywood in that rendering. Change the style/crown.
Posted 29 May 2019 - 07:38 AM
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Posted 29 May 2019 - 08:12 AM
Maybe if the roof was also made of glass it would match better.
Posted 29 May 2019 - 08:20 AM
Luckily this is just the rezoning application. A Development Permit is required for each of the proposed towers
Posted 30 May 2019 - 08:03 PM
Chek 6 news did a short blurb on this project last night. Could have sworn I heard them say it would built out of wood, not concrete.
I will have to check my VCR.
Posted 30 May 2019 - 08:08 PM
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Posted 31 May 2019 - 08:18 AM
I still think Highlander might have been able to pull it off, if it had seemed high-end with the materials and such. Love or hate the style, at least it wasn't a hodgepodge. It was coherent. Soaring Peaks on the other hand...
Posted 31 May 2019 - 08:31 AM
Oh, Soaring Peaks, that was actually the one I was thinking of. Highlander actually looks pretty good.
Posted 03 June 2019 - 02:43 PM
Oh my, those were the days. That's going back what, 14 years?
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Posted 03 June 2019 - 04:42 PM
>>>Let's hope this rendering is very preliminary and that the pitched roof concept is nixed before construction begins<<<
Yes, in favor of a Victoria building, dead flat with no architectural imagination ... not !!!
I love the "pitched" roof ... and I live in Langford.
Posted 03 June 2019 - 04:50 PM
...I love the "pitched" roof ... and I live in Langford.
Nothing about that statement surprises me.
Posted 03 June 2019 - 04:52 PM
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Posted 03 June 2019 - 05:17 PM
First Island Financial pulled off a pitched roof perfectly...
I may be alone in this opinion, but very few contemporary buildings taller than about 5 floors are able to make a case for a house-style pitched roof, or as with the proposal in Langford, a series of pitched roofs. There are other ways to top off a tall building without having to go with the giant house aesthetic.
Posted 03 June 2019 - 05:48 PM
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Posted 03 June 2019 - 06:55 PM
>>>Let's hope this rendering is very preliminary and that the pitched roof concept is nixed before construction begins<<<
Yes, in favor of a Victoria building, dead flat with no architectural imagination ... not !!!
I love the "pitched" roof ... and I live in Langford.
Yeah....because that never happens here in Pokeyville, lol.
One of my biggest beefs with 'development' here is not so much when the height of so many proposals is lopped off to placate one entrenched NIMBY interest or another, resulting in yet another disappointing and under built semi-fat scaper - that is bad enough but more often than not you know in advance that is a highly likely outcome so there's no point belaboring the issue.
Rather my biggest issue is the overall and general lack of vision in terms of "really" architecturally interesting, and dare I say it, buildings with some verve and panache. European cities are replete with literally hundreds of examples of uber-cool architecture (see Barcelona or Paris), ditto many South American cities and we all know what Shanghai and Dubai are capable of.
I'm not suggesting we're in that class of city architecturally - simply put we're not, not even remotely: nonetheless that doesn't mean we need to default to the aforementioned "Victoria building....dead flat with no architectural imagination" which sadly and all too often is the outcome. We can - and we should - strive to do better. Much better. How many more "dead flat" (ho-hum) 10-12 story buildings do we really want to see, or need, downtown?
Edited by AllseeingEye, 03 June 2019 - 06:55 PM.
Posted 10 June 2019 - 01:29 AM
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