[Downtown Victoria] Our Place building assisted housing | 6-storeys | Built - completed in 2008
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Posted 04 April 2007 - 07:03 PM
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Posted 04 April 2007 - 07:06 PM
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Posted 04 April 2007 - 07:07 PM
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Posted 04 April 2007 - 07:10 PM
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Posted 06 April 2007 - 07:01 PM
The former Vol. Coord. will take the job of facility manager.
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Posted 06 April 2007 - 08:04 PM
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Posted 29 January 2008 - 05:19 PM
-City of Victoria website, 2009
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Posted 29 January 2008 - 06:08 PM
BTW this project would have been really cool if it had been about twice as tall...with a bit more glass. And it's not like a larger building would not have been useful.
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Posted 29 January 2008 - 07:01 PM
Another little piece of Victoria's authentic urban heritage bites the dust. And it was only a little while ago that people were fighing like hell to preserve a lousy post-war motel. I'd be interested to know if anybody batted an eyelash for this place.
The new building isn't bad. From some angles it's quite decent. But it would have looked a lot better if the old building had been left beside it.
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Posted 29 January 2008 - 07:56 PM
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Posted 29 January 2008 - 08:36 PM
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Posted 29 January 2008 - 08:50 PM
^ Agreed. Where's Nick Russell now, considering he's otherwise so completely obsessed about heritage buildings getting "whacked"? (It's one of his favourite words.) One suspects that Mr. Russell is more interested in "whacking" allegedly evil, greedy-ass developers, and since there weren't any allegedly evil, greedy-ass developers involved in this project, he didn't mind that this building got ...well, whacked. But, point is, we (Victorians) are out one nice looking, true heritage building.
As cynical as you are, I agree. So many of these so-called heritage advocates are the exact same people that vociferously oppose what they see as evil, nasty, greedy developers. Enough so that it isn't hard to see behind their motives, sadly. Unless the old Our Place building was really falling apart and unfixable (which i've never heard), it's pretty hard to understand why no one said anything given it's age.
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Posted 29 January 2008 - 08:51 PM
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Posted 29 January 2008 - 10:07 PM
Nparker, I actually like the building and it's a bit of an improvement height-wise over the old one, which I also like, but as I recall they had a really tough time getting the funding for it. It's not like the people that will be using it have a lot of money so understandably it's not as tall as it should be.
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Posted 30 January 2008 - 05:56 PM
The circular portions of the building make up a computer lab on the first floor (look for Rev. Al's stained glass panels going in up top) and a meeting room/classroom on the second floor. The blank concrete section is the elevator shaft, and the balconies are part of the lounge area for each residential floor.
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Posted 30 January 2008 - 07:15 PM
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Posted 01 February 2008 - 02:32 PM
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