BUILT The Mondrian Uses: condo, commercial Address: 1090 Johnson Street Municipality: Victoria Region: Downtown Victoria Storeys: 10 Condo units: (studio/bachelor, 1BR, 2BR) Sales status: sold out / resales only |
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[Downtown Victoria] The Mondrian | Condos | 10 storeys | Built - completed in 2013
#21
Posted 25 December 2010 - 04:40 PM
Alpha Developments has announced the project on its website:
http://www.alphadeve...ewprojects.html
#22
Posted 25 December 2010 - 09:40 PM
OK- it looks like the project will be called The Mondrian
like this painting? that would be slick maybe the bright colours wouldn't work so well in victoria though
#23
Posted 26 December 2010 - 02:34 PM
^ It wasn't - it just didn't get built because of the economy.
That makes sense now, thanks.
Doesn't Harris Green have higher height limits than 10 stories though? I mean there's View Towers, The Manhattan, Regent Park, etc....
#24
Posted 26 December 2010 - 09:51 PM
The Manhattan, for example was allowed to build that high because density transfer and a covenant was placed on the neighbouring two-storey office tower. Recall this prevented what would have been the 7-Eleven tower at Quadra/Yates.
The Regent's Park tower was allowed because they built that huge semi-public garden space connecting View with Yates.
The history of View Towers can be found elsewhere in this forum.
#25
Posted 26 December 2010 - 10:05 PM
#26
Posted 26 December 2010 - 10:31 PM
#27
Posted 26 December 2010 - 11:12 PM
It's great to see all of the action in the '1000' blocks of Harris Green, and I hope that the Mondrian will be a nice compliment to the Bossi House and Jukebox developments in the same area.
#28
Posted 27 December 2010 - 04:49 AM
I will find out more about this in the new year.
#29
Posted 09 January 2011 - 12:16 AM
like this painting? that would be slick maybe the bright colours wouldn't work so well in victoria though
OK - great name for a building - but why don't they make it look like a Mondrian painting, or have design influenced by Mondrian? there is such great potential - the black vertical and horizontal lines, white background, blocks of primary colour - it would be fantastic! one of the more interesting buildings in the city, if they would only do it. But, being Victoria, design will always drift toward the mediocre.......sigh......
#30
Posted 09 January 2011 - 07:03 AM
#31
Posted 09 January 2011 - 01:51 PM
Mondrian Vancouver:
picture from http://www.6717000.com/mondrian/
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Mondrian Ottawa:
picture from http://www.mondriano...com/tag/ottawa/
#32
Posted 09 January 2011 - 04:02 PM
^That's the new cross-town plan. Taller on Yates, but not on Johnson.
This drives me nuts - its not one street that should allow tall buildings, its neighbourhoods. This ghettoization is the same thing that gave us 800-block view and Yates. The tall buildings should be spread out around Harris Green, not all plopped on Yates.
#33
Posted 09 January 2011 - 07:20 PM
At least the Ottawa one has a strong grid pattern. But as you say - no colour!
#34
Posted 09 January 2011 - 07:35 PM
This drives me nuts - its not one street that should allow tall buildings, its neighbourhoods. This ghettoization is the same thing that gave us 800-block view and Yates. The tall buildings should be spread out around Harris Green, not all plopped on Yates.
The 800 Block of Yates is the best part of the street outside of oldtown.
#35
Posted 09 January 2011 - 11:56 PM
#36
Posted 10 January 2011 - 06:56 AM
#37
Posted 10 January 2011 - 05:11 PM
The downside: some bozo from Central Saanich or View Royal who goes downtown once a year would surely have written a harsh letter to the TC complaining about how 860 View is two or three stories taller than it should have been.
It puts Victoria city planners in a difficult position when they have to weigh the interests of hundreds of downtown residents against the interests of a hypothetical loudmouthed bozo in another municipality.
#38
Posted 10 January 2011 - 06:49 PM
It puts Victoria city planners in a difficult position when they have to weigh the interests of hundreds of downtown residents against the interests of a hypothetical loudmouthed bozo in another municipality.
Is this another aspect of the "Victoria Attitude"?
#39
Posted 10 January 2011 - 06:58 PM
#40
Posted 03 March 2011 - 02:18 PM
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