Lachlan Holmes said:
Now, on to looking at the three different tower design options. The difference between the three, as you'll see, is in tower footprint/shape. Mr. Kuwabara shared that exterior treatment is still a work in progress. I suspect it will become more concrete by the time of the second Design Review Panel meeting, in late April.

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Option 1 - Cylinder

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Note: they went through these slides rather quickly, and thus I missed the slide "View from the North" for Option 1. Also, please note that I have excluded the "Aerial View" slide for this option to fit under the fifteen image limit. It is visible in the last image of the previous post, however.

Option 2 - Waves

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Option 3 - Lily

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That's it for now. There is a special meeting of the Design Review Panel for this project tomorrow at 6:30pm which I'm planning to observe, and if there's anything of interest I'll bring it back to show you here!
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Excellent pair of posts Lachlan! Many thanks.

I confess I find the height a bit excessive here, irrespective of the design choice.........

That said, design option 2 is my clear favourite, with 3 a strong runner up.

The straight-up cylinder (option 1) is entirely unappealing; or what my niece would call 'Basic'.
 
3 is the best design for me personally. However I echo your sentiment northern light, I'm all for height but this just feels out of place.

I don't mind the height here either, but if your gonna make an exception to the limit that's going to stand on it's own like this, I feel it needs to be a much more iconic design than we're getting. It has to anchor the skyline, not merely exist.
 
What a nice sleek looking building for this pier! I can see more of these skyscrapers being built in this attractive area by the the bay if the demand is there! Slowly moving out the industry for condos etc lol ! As seen in the photos up above!
 
I really want to see pier 8 developed but I wish they went with a group of shorter towers instead of the low rises and this one monolith. This tower is literally 2km from anything more than half its height. At best, I hope that bright crown does enough to bother those mountain NIMBYs. Hopefully it will encourage the city to continue growing in density along the James N corridor.
 
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Sales for condo tower on Hamilton’s Pier 8 will open by end of year: developer

Long-planned waterfront units will be marketed in new showroom as consortium and city agree to Discovery Centre lease
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Sales for condo tower on Hamilton’s Pier 8 will open by end of year: developer​


April 13, 2023

Development of a splashy 1,500-home harbourfront neighbourhood on Pier 8 is making headway.

Waterfront Shores recently signed a lease with the city to use a portion of the Discovery Centre as a showroom and sales centre for its long-awaited, 45-storey condo project, according to a report bound for the west harbour subcommittee Friday.

The lease marks an important step forward in the consortium’s plans to redevelop the city-owned former industrial pier into 1,500 condo apartments and townhouses, said Joe Valela, president of consortium partner Tercot Communities.

Valela said building permits to modify the leased space into a showroom featuring vignettes of condo designs will be filed in the next few months. Its completion and opening will see sales begin later this year, he added, with construction planned for 2024.

“We now have all the pieces that we need and we’re very pleased with where we are,” Valela said over a call.

Meanwhile, according to the subcommittee reports, the city is currently in discussions with the consortium to explore the feasibility of a public parking component within its residential development.

One such measure would be to consolidate underground parking between development blocks, in turn providing “a better functional design of the neighbourhood and provide an opportunity to incorporate public parking into the underground structure,” the report states.

A layout for potential parking improvements at the Pier 8 development will be considered by the general issues committee April 19.

The subcommittee reports also included several other updates to the city’s $140-million plan to transform the west harbour into a vibrant commercial and mixed-use village.

Construction of Gateway Park, for example, will begin this summer and finish by the end of 2023. The triangular-shaped space stretches northward from Discovery Drive to the new Haida Avenue, complementing already completed projects like the Pier 7 board and boat slips.

Another capital project update in the report concerns two former industrial buildings the city considers key elements to its redevelopment plans.

One building is a two-storey “artisan market” including washrooms, meeting rooms, a lobby, vendor stalls, marina offices and a covered area for boat mooring, according to the report. Another is a single-floor, “open-air pavilion,” replete with removable walls to accommodate open-air and indoor uses year-round.

The idea is to have the buildings serve as a “multi-purpose, publicly owned and accessible” indoor anchor to the new pedestrianized areas along the water, said Chris Phillips, city waterfront project lead.

The city plans to have a general vision and formal design brief for the buildings by the end of this year. Design proposals will come by 2024 with construction set for 2025. Staff will report back to the subcommittee with more detailed framework for the design competition in May.
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