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[aastra]

Apparently they've requested fairly significant adjustments to the approved designs. Can you guess what the changes would involve? Unless your head has been up your behind for the past ~10 years, you should be able to guess.

 

Hint: punched windows and plain panels.

[aastra]

 

Unless your head has been up your behind for the past ~10 years, you should be able to guess.

 

No offense to the CoV's notions re: architecture and design.

[aastra]

Methinks it's well past time for the CoV to wake up and address the panels issue. Decades of finicky architectural design controversies... and this is the enlightened state we've ended up in because of it?

 

Was it all just play-acting and hot air on the city's part? Sure seems like it.

 

Just consider all of the other ways the CoV could have thrown its architectural legacy away. Could have gone all-in with gleaming glass curtainwall. Could have gone overboard with Pacific Northwest modern. Could have embraced faux-heritage. Could have allowed tall highrises or even legit skyscrapers. Any one of those would have had a fair number of fans.

 

This thing with the plain panels... it's as if we've settled on the one element that nobody ever asked for.

[aastra]

I gotta say, I was really looking forward to this one. Now I'm feeling peeved. Plain panels, reduced window coverage, overall dilution of the design, AND a corner square that could easily end up being a lame duck...

 

I dunno. I need to go toilet-paper Mike K.'s estate or something.

[Mike K.]

The panels tend to do a marvellous job of addressing modern BC building code requirements and moisture control in our climate. It’s a tough material to replace without getting into higher cost and complexity.

[aastra]

 

The panels tend to do a marvellous job of addressing modern BC building code requirements and moisture control in our climate.

 

BC Building codes must be crazy tough if developers in other provinces and across the USA are also abiding by them.

 

Dude, the plain panels thing is happening everywhere. Victoria just happens to be positioning itself as the world leader for some reason. Maybe it's all part of a secret government project to generate a sufficient amount of irony to produce a wormhole or some such thing. That's the most plausible explanation I can come up with.

[Mike K.]

We have a building code that is quite demanding, that is true.

[Linear Thinker]

Tuesday April 7, 2026.

 

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[aastra]

 

We have a building code that is quite demanding...

 

Demanding of lousiness. But anyway, this project was already approved in a form that would have been half-decently sharp in certain aspects. And now those certain aspects are going to be dulled, not by the CoV but by the developer.

[Mike K.]

The city can say no, of course. You can write in and provide feedback.

[Linear Thinker]

From Monday May 4. Monthly pics from now on.

[Linear Thinker]

Monday June 2 2026