reinventingthewheel
Active Member
Personally I was just going off the previous image shared, which I hadn’t realized was from 2015 LOL
reinventingthewheel
Active Member
The floor of Union Station's new south concourse is setting!
Crews recently finished pouring the first batch of concrete for the flooring, with more pours on the way!
Once complete, the new concourse will link Bay and York Streets, making it easier to get to and from the platforms. Plus, it’ll connect seamlessly to Bay, York, and VIA concourses, Union Square, and Scotiabank Arena.
Northern Light
Superstar
1) Does anyone else think that seems like a lot of unmarked/unsigned doorways?
2) Its a render people......and I do appreciate honesty in renders.............but if this is the best you can do......ok....would a small lie really hurt? LOL I mean it looks fine......if clinical and dull.
Towered
Superstar
You're surprised??
Willybru21
Active Member
Those doorways aren’t for public use and will have signs/codes for whatever the room has inside it, like other non-public rooms in Union. The wayfinding document for the Bremner Concourse shows some of them.
Northern Light
Superstar
I know........its the number of doorways that caught my attention, I would have thought they might consolidate them a bit.
Willybru21
Active Member
Another alcove in the VIA Concourse closed this week, the one directly adjacent to the Tim Hortons. There’s probably another retail space going in there
JasonParis
Moderator
To use a U.K. example, mainline London stations show both the regional and national operators on the same board. Especially, as many call at the same stations, so people can just quickly choose the first one (even if it is more expensive). While not nearly as many examples, that still holds here too.
1plus1
New Member
Will the South concourse include any retail space?
The commercial units in both Bay and York concourses give the area so much life, and it would be a bummer if South concourse is just one long skinny corridor.
The commercial units in both Bay and York concourses give the area so much life, and it would be a bummer if South concourse is just one long skinny corridor.
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
I can't say there is none - but I don't recall the plans having a significant amount of retail space like the lower concourse. I remember it was almost like a completely separate space design-wise.
AoD
reinventingthewheel
Active Member
No retail really, there is little room for it without creating bottlenecks. This will be a very high traffic area eventually; beneath the future Lakeshore platforms and adjacent to the arena / Bremner.
Facing north from the south concourse there will open passages to the lower and upper levels of Bay concourse, VIA concourse and I believe the lower level of York concourse.
ethan.l.cecc
New Member
View of South Concourse construction from the CN Tower
DSC
Superstar
I had sort of hoped all this kind of work had already been finished but ...
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bgobgo
Active Member
One of my favourite editorials in a long time is this piece lamenting the jersey barriers in front of Union Station.
Kudos to The Globe & Mail for asking Canadian cities to improve their respective public realms.
www.theglobeandmail.com
(Note: Behind a Paywall)
Kudos to The Globe & Mail for asking Canadian cities to improve their respective public realms.
Globe editorial: A plea for more beauty in urban life
Creating more attractive public realms can help revive cities and make life better for everyone who lives in them
www.theglobeandmail.com
Northern Light
Superstar
One of my favourite editorials in a long time is this piece lamenting the jersey barriers in front of Union Station.
Kudos to The Globe & Mail for asking Canadian cities to improve their respective public realms.
(Note: Behind a Paywall)Globe editorial: A plea for more beauty in urban life
Creating more attractive public realms can help revive cities and make life better for everyone who lives in them
The piece features a general explainer about public realm as an idea and its value and puts forward the notion that outside of Montreal, Canadian civic leaders have been at best inattentive to the need for quality and aesthetics in our common outdoors spaces.
it then comes back to the Union Station jersey barriers for its close, here I will screenshot:
Heavy Granite Blocks on which one could sit:
From: https://cascadestoneworks.com/produ...des-chiseled-18-t-x-14-d-x-72-vary-long-copy/
Adjusted for exchange rate, something in the range of 3k a pop.
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Rather than a slew more pics, I'd thought I'd post a link to a company whose business is making planters and seats that can double as security barriers (specifically ram proof) and people can see what's available.
These aren't cheap, but in the context of the Union Station project they aren't that much either.
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