This project was revised again on March 23. Applicant's letter to Council: https://tender.victo...410145311036954
PROPOSED 1010 Fort Street Uses: rental, commercial Address: 1010 Fort Street Municipality: Victoria Region: Downtown Victoria Storeys: 12 |
Posted 04 April 2020 - 03:30 PM
This project was revised again on March 23. Applicant's letter to Council: https://tender.victo...410145311036954
Posted 04 April 2020 - 07:24 PM
Thanks Kapten!
If you look at Stuart Howard Architect's website, it looks like it's going to be CLT! That's exciting.
http://stuarthoward....treet-clt-tower
“To understand cities, we have to deal outright with combinations or mixtures of uses, not separate uses, as the essential phenomena.”
- Jane Jacobs
Posted 04 April 2020 - 07:26 PM
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Posted 04 April 2020 - 08:08 PM
I'd tell you but I don't want to rub you the wrong way.
Posted 04 April 2020 - 08:09 PM
But if you guessed laminated beams you're right on the button.
Posted 04 April 2020 - 08:18 PM
Oh, what’s CLT?
Cross Laminated Timber!
This Aryze/Geric's project in Vic.
More so though, this Brock Commons at UBC
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- Jane Jacobs
Posted 05 April 2020 - 08:51 AM
Ah, very good.
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Posted 19 June 2020 - 02:27 PM
This goes to CotW on Thursday June 25. Staff are recommending that the city decline this development and are advising that the develop should do a land assembly: https://pub-victoria...ocumentId=54575
Posted 19 June 2020 - 02:32 PM
Staff are wrong.
Posted 19 June 2020 - 02:34 PM
So the City says it's too narrow, you need to buy the building next door, knock that down and make it wider.
So they willl do that and it goes to Design Panel and they will say, it's too monolithic, you need to design it to make it look like two separate builidngs.
Posted 19 June 2020 - 02:36 PM
But isn't this site full of fatscraper fans ...?
Posted 19 June 2020 - 02:41 PM
Why does it not surprise me that the "brain trusts" in the CoV want to kill this joyful, little mini highrise?
Posted 19 June 2020 - 02:46 PM
Why does it not surprise me that the "brain trusts" in the CoV want to kill this joyful, little mini highrise?
Because there's not enough grey cladding.
Posted 19 June 2020 - 03:26 PM
Sigh. Lot consolidation would be exactly what you don't want to happen along Fort Street. It would be a granularity killer. Do too much consolidation and Fort Street would forever lose its unique feel as a downtown neighbourhood street (along with that small bit of Blanshard where they intersect).
So, of course, the city is calling for lot consolidation. It's absolutely bananas. I have to ask, do the people calling for this stuff have any familiarity with Victoria? It seems like such generic advice, irrelevant to the context.
Posted 22 June 2020 - 12:05 PM
CHEK news is reporting on the fact that this development might be rejected: https://www.cheknews...-street-677573/
Posted 22 June 2020 - 12:11 PM
Why does the article keep referring to it as Front Street?
Posted 22 June 2020 - 12:15 PM
Copy and paste the following paragraphs, and you can apply them to most development proposals no matter what they actually are
However, city staff are recommending council reject the application, citing concerns around building height, design and overall fit with the neighbourhood.
“Staff have concerns that the tower would have impacts on shading and privacy, that the street wall would not relate well to the public street and sidewalk, and the building lacks cohesion,” the report said.
When it came to the building’s design, staff said NVision Properties’ proposal does not “achieve a cohesive design or enhance” the appearance along Front Street through “high-quality architecture, landscape and urban design responsive to its historic context through sensitive and innovative interventions.”
Edited by Casual Kev, 22 June 2020 - 12:16 PM.
Posted 22 June 2020 - 12:25 PM
Where is Front Street? If the CoV can't even identify its road network properly how can their opinions re design, massing etc. possibly be taken seriously?
Posted 22 June 2020 - 12:34 PM
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Posted 22 June 2020 - 01:07 PM
Staff are wrong.
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