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[aastra]

Anyway, this Quadra neighbourhood could be and probably would be one of the best city neighbourhoods anywhere if Victorians hadn't been so determined to invert it and subvert it and kick it in the proverbial groin so many times over the years and decades. I regard this current institutional project as just more of the same ongoing process.

Edited by aastra, 24 June 2016 - 11:17 AM.

[Bingo]

So it's 320 units for complex need and dementia patients. Do we know if patients are going to be confined to the building? Or be able to come and go at all?

 

Most likely confined to their floor.

[Bingo]

Anyway, this Quadra neighbourhood could be and probably would be one of the best city neighbourhoods anywhere if Victorians hadn't been so determined to invert it and subvert it and kick it in the proverbial groin so many times over the years and decades. I regard this current institutional project as just more of the same ongoing process.

 

The whole neighbourhood went downhill about the time they closed the Fox Theatre. 

However we do like the food at the 5th Street Bar and Grill.

[big dog]

The inner Courtyard is designed for Dementia Patients to enjoy outdoors SAFELY. This same Concept is being built at Eden's Gate in Nanaimo that will eventually house 600 Dementia Patients. I worked on that one as well have worked with Unitech recently (Wellington Secondary Nanaimo). I would be delighted to work on this one

[big dog]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7BBHZTYk8c

[LJ]

The inner Courtyard is designed for Dementia Patients to enjoy outdoors SAFELY. This same Concept is being built at Eden's Gate in Nanaimo that will eventually house 600 Dementia Patients. I worked on that one as well have worked with Unitech recently (Wellington Secondary Nanaimo). I would be delighted to work on this one

I just need to know where the assisted dying wing is, that's where I want to be placed if I need to be in a facility like this.

[RFS]

Wasn't there also a development planned for the SJ Willis field across hillside from this one? I noticed they took down their LED sign that was on the corner of blanshard

[Mike K.]

Hmm, not recently I don't think.

[big dog]

LJ, secure wing is on the West side, if You behave You will be on the East side. Underground parking on the front half of the Complex only (Hillside). Building height 14.5 M, 4 storey.

[jonny]

This site is being cleared.

[Bingo]

This site is being cleared.

 

And a hole dug.

 

 

 

[aastra]

His name is jonny, not dug. No wonder he looks so frazzled.

[big dog]

actually his name is ron, a good operator

[amor de cosmos]

Residents in the Hillside-Quadra neighbourhood could soon have increased access to a gym, even as Island Health develops the former Blanshard Elementary School yard into a 322-bed seniors care facility.

The Capital Regional District, which manages the site, has at the city’s request retained the 6,300-square-foot gymnasium for use by the Quadra Village Community Centre located across the street.

Victoria Coun. Ben Isitt, council liaison to the neighbourhood, said the centre was built with a small footprint, with the intention that school gymnasium could be used by the community.

“When the school board decided to close Blanshard school, it was a real loss for the neighbourhood,” Isitt said.

“So, I think, to bring a portion of that facility back under community control and to have that space available for the community centre to provide programming is very positive.”

The agreement would allow the community centre to expand programming to 1,000 hours from 130 hours, offering programs such as kinder-gym, martial arts, Zumba, yoga, dance and youth and adult sport drop-ins.

http://www.timescolo...entre-1.2348897

[Bingo]

 covered parking uncovered

 

[VicHockeyFan]

[Mixed365]

I'm quite sure this building is an X for medical and experiential reasons. Not exterior architectural design. Aka when you are elderly and bed-ridden all day, everyone gets a view. Think of the hotels in Vegas, they are shaped like this for view purposes. 

[AllseeingEye]

I'm quite sure this building is an X for medical and experiential reasons. Not exterior architectural design. Aka when you are elderly and bed-ridden all day, everyone gets a view. Think of the hotels in Vegas, they are shaped like this for view purposes. 

Almost certainly; don't forget that in assisted living - even dementia care facilities - not all the residents are bed-ridden. Many of them are surprisingly active.

 

Affording everyone a "view" not only ensures the place is bright but much more critically that the residents, whether they have some variant of Alzheimer's or not, get to experience the visual stimulation of something other than a cold white plaster or concrete institutional wall. Thankfully this isn't the 1930's and we don't condemn our aging parents to such places anymore, I would like to think in large part because we're living in a more enlightened age.

[Bingo]

I'm quite sure this building is an X for medical and experiential reasons. Not exterior architectural design. Aka when you are elderly and bed-ridden all day, everyone gets a view. Think of the hotels in Vegas, they are shaped like this for view purposes. 

 

It also make it easier if you are short staffed, then you can put that person at the center of the X.

[Mixed365]

It also make it easier if you are short staffed, then you can put that person at the center of the X.

Was that sarcastic, or actually?