[Downtown Victoria] View/Vancouver condos | 14-storeys | Canceled
#61
Posted 25 February 2007 - 12:13 PM
#62
Posted 25 February 2007 - 12:25 PM
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http://architecture.... ... tivism.htm
I wonder if the public art pieces that Illarian Gallant did for the Douglas St up-grade ( Yates and Douglas) fit that theme...
What is deconstructivism?
Deconstructivism, or Deconstruction, is an approach to building design which attempts to view architecture in bits and pieces. The basic elements of architecture are dismantled. Deconstructivist buildings may seem to have no visual logic: They may appear to be made up of unrelated, disharmonious abstract forms. Deconstructivism ideas are borrowed from the Fench philosopher Jacques Derrida. For examples of Deconstructivism in architecture, look at works by:
Peter Eisenman
Frank Gehry
Richard Meier
Rem Koolhaas
#64
Posted 02 March 2007 - 09:31 AM
The rehabilitation of the sinking intersection will happen this summer. It will cost about $3 million. Council voted in favour but Geoff Young thought the City should hold off and that we'd be better off not competing just yet in this hot construction market. Councillor Hughes said the estimate was $2 million ten years ago when they first discussed fixing it and they better get to it now before it's $4 million.
There will be an open house held soon so the public can see the plans for tree replacement and sidewalk beautification etc.
#65
Posted 02 March 2007 - 09:35 AM
EDIT: nevermind. 3 mill it is.
#66
Posted 02 March 2007 - 09:44 AM
1 percent of the planning estimate for the LRT Westshore to Downtown..
#67
Posted 02 March 2007 - 12:35 PM
Know it all.
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#68
Posted 02 March 2007 - 12:56 PM
Why don't we build a mini overpass instead? ;)
Oh we all have to make choices...
Have a peek at the 2003 Border Infrastructure program.. mostly Highway stuff.. $121. million... cost shared BC and Canada..
http://www2.news.gov... ... hment2.htm
Just a tad over 40 % of the planning estimate for the LRT between Westshore and Downtown.. and no fare box revenues..
#69
Posted 02 March 2007 - 07:39 PM
I have this fantasy about recreating an urban stream or ravine there(**), with a bridge going over it. Note: I said "fantasy." I know it'll never happen. But it seems crazy that we're looking at fixing this constant sink-hole in a battle against nature, when maybe it would be easier (in a way) to go with the flow, let that area be what it wants to be (isn't it a covered up stream/ waterbed that flows to the harbour, exiting near Market Square?). Open it up, put a bridge type structure over the intersection, and turn it into an attraction? It could be a public art work, a nature study project, a piece of urban engineering, a -- dare I say? -- tourist attraction.
The raccoons would love it...
(**) EDIT: by "there," I don't mean the building lot, I mean the intersection (View & Vancouver).
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I love that idea!
I love it too. Why not open it up and remind people of what is there.
#70
Posted 26 September 2007 - 05:51 PM
http://www.colliersm... ... Street.pdf
Anyone got a spare 7 million burning a hole in their pocket??? lol
So any site work on the site now might be just standard testing (environmental and soil geology) and or surveyors... does'nt mean anything's going up soon.
#71
Posted 26 September 2007 - 06:06 PM
#72
Posted 26 September 2007 - 06:50 PM
Parrot took role of intercom, cellphone
Times Colonist
Published: Sunday, September 09, 2007
When I was growing up in Victoria in the 1920s and 1930s, there was a stream that ran along the north side of View Street behind where London Drugs is now.
There were several small homes on that side of the street and most of them had little bridges or catwalks to their front doors.
The family that lived directly across from my dad's business, the Pacific Auto Wrecking Company, had a parrot whose favourite perch was on their bridge railing.
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© Times Colonist (Victoria) 2007
http://www.canada.co... ... d8176fd98d
On the topic of activity on that lot: I asked the guys who were putting up a fence around the perimeter what was happening. They didn't have any specific information, but were under the impression that the property was now going to be developed.
Well, I'll wait till the parrot whistles before I believe it! ;-)
#73
Posted 26 September 2007 - 07:25 PM
#74
Posted 26 September 2007 - 09:03 PM
#75
Posted 03 October 2007 - 11:04 AM
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
#76
Posted 03 October 2007 - 11:10 AM
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Posted 25 March 2008 - 04:51 PM
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