demo activity has started on site. didn't manage to grab a pic but they are tearing into the north side of the building next to the parking lot

can anyone help direct me to a current site plan / development application docs for this development?

Riverside neighbourhood starting to feel a lot more urban. The concrete-paved shared lane in between the blocks feels awful though; gently tumbled pavers would have gone a long way, both in traffic mitigation and character.

First above-grade columns are poured at the SW corner

This thing is an absolute dumpster fire. it's such a mess of an exorbitantly out-of-scale building mass clad in basically every grey colour available in cheap window wall and spandrel paneling. Why anyone, beyond the developers, thought this was a fine idea is beyond me. the shear mass of the...

This building photographs beautifully.. compelling from every angle

Public realm starting to shine in the summer months. Toddler loves the planters.

This project is really making a presence next to the neighbouring park. A really lovely playfulness between the sloping path of the park and the tiered grid of the building.

Perhaps they were thinking of Nordhavnen...

from Bathurst Quay

Sorry for the impatient post, but anyone know the status of the building permit application for the grocery store going in here?

some restaurants, even fast-casual ones, would help extend the restaurant culture around front and jarvis a bit further east. might be nice..

more white buildings please

Ahhhh so that’s why they demo’ed the building, to have a staging area for film production!

very much looks like a project that was designed in revit

Agreed. This building is going to have more of a 'it's whats on the inside that counts' value. What will look like a pretty conventional office park building upon first glance will be rich in detail, materials, and structural integrity. IMO the interior experience is going to far outweigh the...

though i do agree in some form, the rhythm of cool little folded canopies does help to articulate the glass wall here. Also the fact that the retail is shallow may kind of help it. If they broke it down into three or four spaces, it may introduce some smaller scale shops instead of one large...

yea thats a pretty bad take. "build it fast because there's a housing crisis" doesn't fully overrule the need to carefully craft and thoughtfully consider a city's built realm

Yea I follow that thread. Pretty certain my comment applies to both sites. The fact that we have two separate threads for them (which yea, I understand why there are two) is sort of reflective of the general thinking behind them as disparate when it should be holistic

with the scale of these two sites together becoming more and more apparent with the demo, it's a real shame that their isn't a grand vision for city building here. considering the work SLNA put in over years of community consults for first parliament, and then the occupation of this block as a...