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[magmazing]

Oh now I realize why I've been counting wrong. The main level retail in the Yates building is two floors tall.

[Hotel Mike]

The building is starting to show on the skyline, when you are approaching the JSB from the Esquimalt side.

[Victoria Watcher]

The countdown is on for completion at The Yates on Yates! While ensuring the safety of everyone on site, construction has continued and the tower has reached its pinnacle height. That means the crane is scheduled to come down next month and completion remains on track for this fall! 

 

This also means your time is running out to purchase one of our remaining nine homes at pre-completion pricing plus, for a limited time, receive 5% off the purchase price. Claim your home at The Yates on Yates today!

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 28 May 2020 - 11:26 AM.

[RustyNail]

Pics taken on May 27th (Wednesday)

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[Casual Kev]

I hung around downtown today and the condo corridor is really coming along between Douglas and Cook. Makes you feel like you're in Metrotown... but without the SkyTrain

[RustyNail]

I hung around downtown today and the condo corridor is really coming along between Douglas and Cook. Makes you feel like you're in Metrotown... but without the SkyTrain

Would be amazing if there was a skytrain line from Langford to Victoria to the airport.

[aastra]

It would be amazing if Metrotown area had a legitimate downtown feel.

[aastra]

Just zinging Burnaby a bit. Relax.

[aastra]

So it would seem the sides of these Chard buildings were designed as sides. Are they expecting buildings of equivalent height next door?

[Rob Randall]

I think the look of the east facade could be greatly improved by constructing a more interesting building on the Floyd's lot. 

[Mike K.]

Yes, that’s quite likely the plan here.

But I wouldn’t necessarily expect anything too soon, though. There’s so much inventory coming online at Harris & Harris that it’ll keep supply satisfied for years, along with what’s already in progress/approved.

[aastra]

The modern CoV has been fretting about building heights and cookie-cutter design for 60 years, but when it finally allows two tall-ish residential buildings in the heart of downtown it suddenly decides that plain repetition isn't such a big deal after all on the tower levels.

[Nparker]

So it would seem the sides of these Chard buildings were designed as sides. Are they expecting buildings of equivalent height next door?

I think the look of the east facade could be greatly improved by constructing a more interesting building on the Floyd's lot. 

Agreed. I wonder how many decades that will take?

[Nparker]

...when it finally allows two tall-ish residential buildings in the heart of downtown it suddenly decides that plain repetition isn't such a big deal after all on the tower levels.

The repetition of form (and overall blandness of the eastern and western facades) seemed much less apparent in the renderings. I remain hopeful that when complete and occupied the towers will seem a bit more lively.

[aastra]

Go back to the beginning of this thread and it seems the CoV was pleased about the exciting architectural style.

 

I was grumbling about the very conventional lower levels and the absence of anything particularly exciting.

 

But since then I've come to feel much better about the podiums, and now I'm grumbling about the tower levels.

[aastra]

FYI: the old illustrations suggested much less repetition on the tower levels, which may have confused all of us.

[LJ]

And here I was just glad to see a contrail in the second pic.

[Citified.ca]

June 02

 

 

 

[aastra]

I give them points for getting the proportions right. These sure aren't bulky towers. Chard has a really good track record for that aspect.

Edited by aastra, 03 June 2020 - 01:04 PM.

[Nparker]

The massing is great; the aesthetics are so-so.