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[Citified.ca]

Citified profile: https://victoria.cit...-quadra-street/

Aryze page: https://aryze.ca/projects/1702quadra

 

A rendering of Aryze Development's 91-unit, 10-storey apartment proposal for 1702 Fisgard Street in Victoria's North Park neighbourhood. The project will incorporate The Abbey apartments, a two-storey heritage building dating back to 1911, as part of its lower levels. The Abbey was developed as a commercial building on Quadra Street at Fisgard Street and was subsequently converted into 15 rental suites.

 

Proposed 10-storey Quadra Street rental tower will incorporate 111-year-old North Park heritage asset

https://victoria.cit...heritage-asset/

[Nparker]

I have to wonder if this one will be in for a bit of a rough ride.

[DavidSchell]

I have to wonder if this one will be in for a bit of a rough ride.

 

Anything that is proposed in this city is in for a rough ride.

 

I like this comment: The developer confirms the municipal planning and permitting process is expected to "push" into spring of 2023

[Kapten Kapsell]

This is going before the Heritage Advisory Panel today.

[Nparker]

That aught to be a bloodbath.

[PPPdev]

That aught to be a bloodbath.

 

yup 

[aastra]

Any project that involves the revival of an old building will get a rough ride from Victoria's "heritage advocates".

[Mike K.]

Can’t write advocates without borrowing letters from *caveats.

[Kapten Kapsell]

The design for this project has been revised substantially and it is going back to CALUC.  92 homes are included in the new proposal, along with an increased number of balconies and setbacks along the north and west sides of the property.

 

A new rendering:

 

[Nparker]

I am not sure this is an improvement.

[corvus]

It does look substantially more residential now, if a bit goofy. 

[Nparker]

I'd prefer less goofy.

[gstc84]

I think I preferred the old design, but I hate them both. Neither of them fits at all. I’d rather they tear down the existing building than stick this on top. A friend who used to live in this building refuses to acknowledge either design.

[Nparker]

Neither design seems to make any real attempt to reference the existing building. Then again, it's an Aryze project, so I am not really surprised.

[Nparker]

FYI: Aryze is holding a virtual community information session for this project on October 25^th.

[Mike K.]

Is the new proposal 12-storeys, and the prior one 10-storeys (the 11th a common rooftop with the trees)?

[Nparker]

It looks like 12 floors.

[Kapten Kapsell]

Is the new proposal 12-storeys, and the prior one 10-storeys (the 11th a common rooftop with the trees)?

Per their summary letter here it's 12 floors:  https://tender.victo...927083752697262

[Mike K.]

I see it also grew by one additional unit, to 92. I guess the setbacks made quite a difference in terms of massing.

[aastra]

As "new levels piled on top of an older building" go, methinks the first design worked better. The new design looks too blocky and too plain, almost industrial. The ultra-plain treatment of the roofline also seems like a mismatch for the neighbourhood. The first design was much better in that regard.

 

Maybe I'm misreading the cladding and the glazing as it appears in the illustrations, but the new design looks like it has nothing to do with that particular stretch of Quadra Street. I can see it in Rock Bay or the Railyards, maybe even Dockside Green.