[Downtown Victoria] The Cosmopolitan | Rental, commercial | 5-storeys | Canceled
#41
Posted 11 December 2010 - 01:49 PM
#42
Posted 11 December 2010 - 01:55 PM
504 Wellington
500 Wellington
Rottman School of Business (UofT)
Cube Lofts
Ryerson School of Image Arts
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(All taken from Canadian Mid-rise - four to ten storeys thread on Skyscraperpage Forum)
#43
Posted 11 December 2010 - 02:36 PM
#44
Posted 14 December 2010 - 12:35 AM
#45
Posted 14 December 2010 - 11:23 PM
#46
Posted 15 December 2010 - 08:44 AM
#47
Posted 15 December 2010 - 01:56 PM
I just noticed yesterday that the little lends and shutter building has already been gutted and the brick cornices removed. Surprised work is happening so fast.
I think that the old Lens and Shutter building had severe structural issues and its facade was in danger of collapsing onto the sidewalk- hence the scaffolding that had been in place for some time (to protect pedestrians passing below).
#48
Posted 16 December 2010 - 09:10 AM
Your smear against the Phoenicians might just be the most offensive thing I've ever read on the internet.
And I was holding back.
#49
Posted 22 December 2010 - 08:22 AM
I think that the old Lens and Shutter building had severe structural issues and its facade was in danger of collapsing onto the sidewalk- hence the scaffolding that had been in place for some time (to protect pedestrians passing below).
It has no roof now, seems that they are in demolition mode...
#50
Posted 23 December 2010 - 01:21 PM
Councillor Madoff turned away from him when he responded to statements she made about the project. He spoke at length my friend said, and she insinuated through her body language that she did not care for what he had to say.
This must be some of the most direspectful behaviour shown in a public meeting by an elected official.
Did anyone on this forum attend the meeting and see this for themselves?
#51
Posted 23 December 2010 - 01:53 PM
I do think that the Old Town height guidelines are probably *too low*. If they had been in place since the late 1800s the Yarrow Building could *not* have been built (in its present form).
#52
Posted 04 January 2011 - 04:43 PM
#53
Posted 06 January 2011 - 02:50 PM
#54
Posted 06 January 2011 - 02:54 PM
Photo Credit: Davin Greenwell
#55
Posted 06 January 2011 - 02:57 PM
Methinks this project provides a great opportunity for Madoff et al. to really engage the developers and make sure that they hit many of the key points that gumgum and I were discussing a few posts back.
A nice little Herald@Gov't street type design would work quite nicely here. Otherwise make it ultramodern. No half-assed designs PLEASE!
#56
Posted 06 January 2011 - 03:00 PM
#57
Posted 06 January 2011 - 03:00 PM
#58
Posted 06 January 2011 - 03:14 PM
Previous efforts to inject ultramodern design into the stuffy old city didn't work out so well (the Federal Building and Centennial Square and Harbour Square, for example). How about the ultramodern TD Bank building at Fort and Douglas? Is that the sort of stuff that makes the old town a unique and interesting place?
Don't get me wrong, I like the contrast of old and new when it's done well. But sometimes I wonder if some people really want to overturn old Victoria's historic appeal. There's no end of space for ultramodern architecture in other areas of downtown Victoria and the city core and Victoria in general. So why demand it on the 600-block of Fort Street?
#59
Posted 06 January 2011 - 07:40 PM
#60
Posted 06 January 2011 - 07:48 PM
... So why demand it (ultramodern) on the 600-block of Fort Street?
I am not demanding ultramodern. My only "demand" is that the design is very good. In my mind this means a classy modern design or a classy "old-school" design. I think this is a location that "demands" better than a cookie-cutter building, with average finish materials (cough - The Wave) or poor street presence (cough, cough - The Wave - again).
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