That's what I'm nervous about. It's hard to tell by the angles of the renderings, but this feels like Metropolitan 2.0.
 
Mountain Man said:
Even if it is Metropolitan 2.0, there will be sun on the sidewalk since it's on the north side of the street. The biggest thing I dislike about the Met is the oppressive shadow it creates.
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I think the Metropolitan gets a worse rep from the shadows because of it's context - for example, here's 15 Ave in-front of the much taller Montana building. 1 travel lane, two parking lanes, buffered sidewalks and a bike lane:

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Here's the Met - 4 lanes all concrete 1-way:
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We could argue the point tower v. slab shadowing debate, but the bigger issue why the Met sucks is 11th Ave. Convert 11th Ave to 2 lanes only, with all that extra room for trees/bushes/benches and sufficient soil volume, plus some - narrow parking occasionally - and I think most of the perceived issues with shadows go away. That of course requires trade-offs, but the trade-off is more about how to better use the space that will be partially shadowed, not so much what the building should look like to reduce the shadows on a crappy public realm IMO.

For fun, here's a similar dynamic in Barcelona - shorter buildings and a different climate, but everything is even closer into the street to guarantee lots of shadows. But seems to work just fine:
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Given the location on 13th Avenue's north side, I don't see any risk of shadows or the wall effect becoming an issue here.
 
Ooof, it looks worse. I mean, it was never a good proposal, but this new thing is straight out of Moncton. Honestly though, just build the damn thing. Tons of people in what is currently a 3-block void in the core.
 
Atleast throw in some floor to ceiling windows on the ends/front/back to break up that stock window garbage...but the street level and sidewalk is better than Met
 
Tothewest said:
Atleast throw in some floor to ceiling windows on the ends/front/back to break up that stock window garbage...but the street level and sidewalk is better than Met
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Yes they could have done a lot more to make the facade more appealing. Like you say though, the street level treatment is OK, so as long as we don't look up it'll be ok.
 
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