as long as the sale on seafoam spandrel doesn't return
But can there ever be enough seafoam spandrel?
BUILT Tapestry at Victoria Harbour Uses: rental, commercial Address: 701 Belleville Street Municipality: Victoria Region: Downtown Victoria Storeys: 15 |
Posted 26 August 2020 - 04:35 PM
as long as the sale on seafoam spandrel doesn't return
But can there ever be enough seafoam spandrel?
Posted 17 October 2020 - 10:20 AM
Posted 17 October 2020 - 10:36 AM
I think you've captured Tapestry's best angles Brantasitc.
Posted 21 October 2020 - 03:04 PM
I was actually admiring the road, sidewalk, bike lanes, bollards and other street furniture. These are looking good!
Posted 21 October 2020 - 03:53 PM
Yes! The crosswalk and pedestrian island at Blanshard and Belleville is an especially good improvement.
Posted 21 October 2020 - 05:09 PM
why so many bollards?
Posted 23 October 2020 - 08:41 AM
Future bike lane extension through the grounds of St. Ann's Academy?
Posted 23 October 2020 - 09:23 AM
Future bike lane extension through the grounds of St. Ann's Academy?
Probably. Carving out a chunk of the St. Ann's Academy property for through traffic was part of the vision for reconfigured traffic flows down there even back in the 1960s. We have no end of examples to demonstrate how today's bright ideas tend to be the same musty old plans from generations earlier, just repackaged.
Edited by aastra, 23 October 2020 - 09:24 AM.
Posted 23 October 2020 - 09:35 AM
Give me a choice between arbitrarily eating property for a bike path as versus arbitrarily eating property for a street extension and I'll take the bike path every time, but my point still stands about these never-ending traffic re-configurations. The supposed urgencies and necessities that will be used to justify such re-workings will tend to be very exaggerated if not 100% imaginary. Which is why so much of the work that gets done today will get undone or re-worked tomorrow.
Posted 23 October 2020 - 09:57 AM
That 1970 plan probably called for a four-lane 40 mph straight shot. Gotta keep those Chryslers moving.
Edited by Rob Randall, 23 October 2020 - 09:57 AM.
Posted 17 January 2021 - 09:28 PM
Edited by zoomer, 17 January 2021 - 09:28 PM.
Posted 18 January 2021 - 05:01 AM
big "for lease" signs there. will a restaurant give it a go?
Posted 18 January 2021 - 10:22 AM
Actually, I think the building turned out rather nice. Maybe the province can buy it and just move some of the druggies there.
Posted 18 January 2021 - 10:37 AM
Actually, I think the building turned out rather nice. Maybe the province can buy it and just move some of the druggies there.
Posted 18 January 2021 - 10:49 AM
Zoomer: Two horrible ideas between us. Of coarse building proper institutions to hold and treat these unfortunates who are either drug addicted or mentally ill is just too obvious a solution. What is being done now is absolutely criminal.
Posted 18 January 2021 - 10:51 AM
Actually, I think the building turned out rather nice.
I'd say it's fine for what it is. There are things I like about it. But I also think it's not worthy of the prominent site. When you view it from other points on the harbour it's like a textbook example of putting something bland and ordinary in a prominent spot because we were afraid to put something distinctive and interesting there. The more a building tries hard to be inconspicuous, the more conspicuous it tends to be.
Posted 18 January 2021 - 10:52 AM
The more a building tries hard to be inconspicuous, the more conspicuous it tends to be.
For further reference, see also the upper levels of Yates on Yates.
Posted 18 January 2021 - 11:03 AM
..I also think it's not worthy of the prominent site...
More interesting options for the site were proposed over the years, but between the CoV council and the JBNA any "challenging" designs were swiftly rejected.
Posted 18 January 2021 - 11:13 AM
The more a building tries hard to be inconspicuous, the more conspicuous it tends to be.
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