[Downtown Victoria] The Belvedere | 49m | 15-storeys | Built - completed in 2006
#1
Posted 08 August 2006 - 10:22 PM
It is looking really, really nice.
It makes the Astoria look slightly inferior.
#2
Posted 09 August 2006 - 11:57 AM
#3
Posted 09 August 2006 - 01:48 PM
#4
Posted 09 August 2006 - 02:01 PM
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#5
Posted 09 August 2006 - 02:24 PM
#6
Posted 09 August 2006 - 02:41 PM
#7
Posted 09 August 2006 - 02:42 PM
Astoria really needed some setbacks and maybe also some quirky details on the upper floors. Even adding a cool wedge-shaped housing around the mechanical room would be good. Dramatic lighting would also be good.
The Advisory Design Panel requested that Concert add lighting elements to the roof of Astoria because of its presence. Concert wasn't obliged to do it so they didn't
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#8
Posted 09 August 2006 - 04:32 PM
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Posted 09 August 2006 - 08:34 PM
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#10
Posted 09 August 2006 - 09:05 PM
#11
Posted 10 August 2006 - 05:12 PM
Ok.. not hard to remember. But these buildings, to me at least, have fit in so quickly. They're just part of the landscape now, it seems way more unnatural and un-victoria to ever think that land was a parking lot.
With Aria going up and Belvedere finishing up the details, this area is really looking nice.
#12
Posted 23 August 2006 - 09:20 PM
#13
Posted 24 August 2006 - 06:56 AM
#14
Posted 12 September 2006 - 03:53 PM
Astoria needed more colour and more contrast.
In any event, I think Astoria and Belvedere were pretty good designs re: getting Victorians reacquainted with highrise apartments.
Conservative? Yep.
Boring? A bit.
Ugly? Not at all.
Concert showed us what being timid will get us, but we've come through no worse for wear, and now we're good and ready for better stuff. Hence Aria and the Falls and the Juliet.
#15
Posted 12 September 2006 - 04:01 PM
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#16
Posted 12 September 2006 - 04:06 PM
#17
Posted 14 September 2006 - 08:10 PM
#18
Posted 14 September 2006 - 08:28 PM
Would be nice if they'd put some ivy vines on it.
#19
Posted 14 September 2006 - 08:38 PM
Personally I like vines like clematis and Wisteria.
The nice thing about Wisteria is it doesn't lose it's green in the winter. Though there is one variety of clematis that is an ever green.
Also both these vines flower very nicely.
#20
Posted 14 September 2006 - 08:41 PM
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