....what the hell is it with Victoria and red brick??
It was readily available in 1895, which is the last time Victoria had any new architectural ideas.
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Posted 18 January 2017 - 12:22 PM
....what the hell is it with Victoria and red brick??
It was readily available in 1895, which is the last time Victoria had any new architectural ideas.
Posted 18 January 2017 - 12:23 PM
Although, it is a practical design that will pique the interests of buyers. Sometimes untraditional designs can actually become a serious headache once the concept grows legs and the engineers get to work. We're still a low priced city as far as cutting edge real-estate design goes, so we end up with the designs we see as they're the ones that past the financial viability test.
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Posted 18 January 2017 - 12:37 PM
Although, it is a practical design that will pique the interests of buyers...
Ahh...Victoria. The city of "practical" architecture. That's an amazing legacy for future generations.
Posted 18 January 2017 - 12:42 PM
I guess we need to look at it this way. Who wants to pay double the going rate of what familiar designs would fetch? We don't have the draw of multi-millionaire investors like Vancouver does, even our rental rates are quite low compared to what's being charged in other cities where architecture costs necessitate much higher rents.
I know we'd all like to see avant-garde design ...but someone has to pay for it.
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Posted 18 January 2017 - 01:15 PM
Edited by amor de cosmos, 18 January 2017 - 01:25 PM.
Posted 18 January 2017 - 01:27 PM
Haha! I love that!
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Posted 18 January 2017 - 01:34 PM
I kind of like it...
*ducks*
Posted 18 January 2017 - 02:33 PM
I kind of like it...
It's not unlikable, just entirely unimaginative*, especially for such a high profile location.
*Those sentiments are probably written somewhere in the city charter.
Posted 18 January 2017 - 03:25 PM
Another hotel loss for Victoria.
Posted 18 January 2017 - 05:07 PM
Although, it is a practical design that will pique the interests of buyers. Sometimes untraditional designs can actually become a serious headache once the concept grows legs and the engineers get to work. We're still a low priced city as far as cutting edge real-estate design goes, so we end up with the designs we see as they're the ones that past the financial viability test.
Posted 18 January 2017 - 05:48 PM
The renderings suggest quite a bit of glass coverage and at least two cladding materials (not just brick).
Posted 18 January 2017 - 05:58 PM
The article said apartments though... not condo's.
Condos = apartments in most senses of the word.
Posted 18 January 2017 - 06:43 PM
Posted 18 January 2017 - 07:36 PM
Who is the developer of this one?
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Posted 18 January 2017 - 08:09 PM
The renderings suggest quite a bit of glass coverage and at least two cladding materials (not just brick).
Posted 19 January 2017 - 08:53 AM
...what the hell is it with Victoria and red brick??
I love red brick.
I kind of like it...
*ducks*
I live nearby, would see it almost every day and I think it looks fine and fits in nicely with the existing buildings.
It's not unlikable, just entirely unimaginative*, especially for such a high profile location.
Really?!? I would describe it, at best, as adjacent to, "a high profile location." It is basically "filler" that is a transition from Laurel Point to the Heritage buildings across from the Clipper terminal.
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Posted 19 January 2017 - 09:50 AM
..I live nearby, would see it almost every day and I think it looks fine and fits in nicely with the existing buildings...
And that's the key to all new architecture in Victoria isn't it - that it "fits in" with existing buildings. So I guess 100 years from now all new buildings in Victoria will still look exactly the same as today so they "fit in" with everything that was built 200 years earlier.
Posted 19 January 2017 - 03:17 PM
And that's the key to all new architecture in Victoria isn't it - that it "fits in" with existing buildings. So I guess 100 years from now all new buildings in Victoria will still look exactly the same as today so they "fit in" with everything that was built 200 years earlier.
Not what I said at all. Something doesn't have to, "look exactly the same" in order to fit in. A new building does have to complement the surroundings, both man-made and natural. Buildings like The Shard or The Gherkin in London would be wildly inappropriate for that site but something smaller could be interesting.
But in any case, **** the haters, I love brick.
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