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[D.L.]

I don't think this is infill. This is a standard development lot.

[Baro]

"infill" has morphed to mean any development that isn't a huge greenfield subdivision. 

[Nparker]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infill

[D.L.]

That's a spurious use of the word. In that definition Hudson Walk is infill. No, these are just standard developments. If I want to build another house in my backyard then that's infill.

[Linear Thinker]

This project comes back to council Thursday July 23.

Link to report with drawings, pages 123-156 of the pdf.

A letter from the Downtown Residents Association included was not supportive.

About the only difference from Dylan's photo below is that the new version has the brick "columns" on the front go all the way to the roof rather than stop below the top floor, and there is a bit less of the bright red treatment around the decks.

 

There's no movement on this project other than it being for sale.
 
The most recent design

 

 
 
The design we had already seen - http://gingert.net/i...ia-kunju-03.jpg

[Nparker]

So the DRA now objects to the quality of the finishing materials:

 

Here are some updated renderings (that don't look too bad to me).

 

[sebberry]

Shocking.

[Mixed365]

Any idea who is developing this now? Is it on Citified?

[Mr Cook Street]

That is going to add some blandness to a very bland block.

[nagel]

That is going to add some blandness to a very bland block.

Trevor Linden's building right next door is pretty nice, but this one is definitely two steps back.

 

It's been downhill ever since they made that guy kick his dog out of the bookstore/coffee shop combo.  That was the only interesting thing there's been on this block in over a decade now.

[Mike K.]

Any idea who is developing this now? Is it on Citified?

I'll be gathering details right quick. I've been out of communication range for several days.

[Mike K.]

 

Design District condo proposal revived and re-envisioned

http://victoria.citi...-re-envisioned/

 

A re-envisioned proposal to build a mixed-use residential and ground floor commercial building on a long empty lot in downtown Victoria’s Design District will be back before Victoria council several years after previously approved plans failed to materialize.

 

First proposed in 2008 by Magellan Properties and Homewood Constructors, The Kunju, at 613 Herald Street, was designed by Frank D’Ambrosio Architects as a four storey condo with ground floor commercial space. Approvals were secured in early 2009, although it was not until 2011 that a short-lived marketing campaign was launched prior to the site being put up for sale. [Read more]

 

[nagel]

PLUC sent this one to an advisory design committee.  I really hope it gets changed, because it is just hideous.

[Nparker]

...I really hope it gets changed, because it is just hideous.

Oh come on, it's only moderately fugly; the existing Chung Wah Mansion, now THAT is hideous (even with its updated paint scheme - not visible in the above photo).

[gumgum]

Look pretty alright to me.

[aastra]

On the fringes of the old town where the transition out of the historic area happens abruptly I'd really prefer to see modern designs as versus bland stuff with supposedly sensitive touches of brick or whatever else. Everything new should be distinctive, quirky, etc., because many of those streets around there have no personality whatsoever.

[jonny]

To me this looks like a cheap, slapped together love child of that hideous pink and white building to the left and the rather elegant, but boring, 601 Herald to the right.

[gumgum]

Well this one excites me as much as 601 - which isn't saying much.

[nagel]

To me this looks like a cheap, slapped together love child of that hideous pink and white building to the left and the rather elegant, but boring, 601 Herald to the right.

this is exactly what it is.

[aastra]

That's right. I'd be much happier with something that doesn't look anything at all like the buildings on either side. Also, why should it be exactly the same height? Why not a bit taller or a bit shorter?