BUILT 601 Herald Uses: condo, commercial Address: 601 Herald Street Municipality: Victoria Region: Downtown Victoria Storeys: 5 Condo units: (studio/bachelor, loft, 1BR, 2BR) Sales status: sold out / resales only |
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[Downtown Victoria] 601 Herald | Condos| 4-storeys | Built - completed in 2011
#21
Posted 15 April 2008 - 09:09 PM
#22
Posted 16 April 2008 - 07:31 AM
#23
Posted 16 April 2008 - 08:05 AM
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#24
Posted 16 April 2008 - 08:14 AM
#25
Posted 16 April 2008 - 12:37 PM
Hopefully it will nicely fit in without looking too "faux" .
At a glance, the potential for "faux" is the only thing that really worries me. If it's detailed and genuine then it's a winner.
It just needs to be proud of itself, stand on its own, and thereby fit in. Buildings that try to fit in by deferring to their surroundings (or deferring to popular perceptions about their surroundings) only end up sticking out like proverbial sore thumbs.
#26
Posted 16 April 2008 - 12:42 PM
#27
Posted 16 April 2008 - 12:43 PM
Buildings that try to fit in by deferring to their surroundings (or deferring to popular perceptions about their surroundings) only end up sticking out like proverbial sore thumbs.
Funny, I believe those were the exact design guidelines in place by the City for the creation of the Bay Centre (formerly the Victoria Eaton Centre).
#28
Posted 16 April 2008 - 12:43 PM
#29
Posted 16 April 2008 - 12:44 PM
It reminds me a lot of the building further down Herald that was built a few years ago.
I was thinking that as well.
#30
Posted 16 April 2008 - 03:47 PM
I'm always willing to fight for more density for the sake of more density, but how do the economics on a project like this compare to say, the y-lot buildings (astoria barely broke even).
It often seems small nice projects like this get stalled or shut down, one needs to only look across the street. So how come a 4 story infill here works, yet other places they can't or won't ?
#31
Posted 16 April 2008 - 04:20 PM
The top cornice will likely be a type of light-weight concrete.
#32
Posted 16 April 2008 - 05:52 PM
#33
Posted 17 April 2008 - 06:44 PM
Incidentally, today Council and the DVBA expressed interest in extending the Chinatown pagoda streetlight program onto this street and others in Chinatown.
#34
Posted 17 April 2008 - 06:46 PM
#35
Posted 15 May 2008 - 01:20 PM
#36
Posted 15 May 2008 - 01:34 PM
The soil remediation has been done already I thought and I don't think it's been before Council so I'm not sure why it's there.
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#37
Posted 15 May 2008 - 03:38 PM
#38
Posted 15 May 2008 - 08:09 PM
#39
Posted 15 May 2008 - 10:00 PM
It's not an excavator unless it's a Spyder Hoe™ excavator.©®
You tell em, Brother!
#40
Posted 04 June 2008 - 12:29 PM
There has been extensive site remediation on this lot, as evidenced by the giant pile of dirt on the first page of this thread. I haven't been aware of the same degree of excavation on the neighbouring Kabuki Kabs site that Magellan Holdings and D'Ambrosio Architecture is proposing on the east side of this site.
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