West Garneau | 27m | 6s | Westrich Pacific | J+S Architect

[Daveography]

Someone dropped this on my lap today. More to come.

 

[Platinum107]

Hmmm... Interesting. I already like the townhouse component they are proposing. However, I'm sure that this will have some of the same issues that "The View" had, as the site is on a small neighborhood street.

 

[archited]

These architects seem to have very little highrise experience -- not a detriment -- it will be interesting to see how this project evolves.

 

[Daveography]

Haven't been able to get a scan of the file today, will have to try again tomorrow.

It's actually a pretty weird location for a tower, being mid-block and just outside current TOD areas. Not sure this is a good one, really.

 

[Kaizen]

Looks like 3 or 4 of these narrow lots.

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[Daveography]

Yup, these five lots in red (orange is the recently-approved two-tower MacLab proposal)

Looking at the document now, there are two design options presented. This is Option 1:

 

[Daveography]

Option 2:

 

[Daveography]

Proposed FAR 8.37
229 units (incl. 12 3-bdrm and 6 townhous units, or 8% family-oriented housing)

 

[OverheardatYEG]

Taking the fact that this is a Westrich Pacific and the design of the units this clearly looks like a condo project. Many people will buy these as investment properties however, I'm not convinced it will be priced right. I expect Maclab to sell much more and a lot faster in their tower than I believe Westrich will. I look forward to seeing them fight the community because we know there will be major resistance.

 

[Daveography]

@OverheardatYEG Yeah, apparently the community has not had a good working relationship with Westrich so far.

 

[OverheardatYEG]

@Daveography and this will only make it worse.

 

[Him]

I'd vote option 1 if it were up to me but they're both decent.

 

[Kaizen]

I'd go for option 1 as well, but both are 6's or a little better in my opinion at this stage, decent but lacking. I really like the West facing terraced top on both depictions.

 

[quit]

Option 2 in my opinion.

 

[archited]

I recast my vote aligning it with @Daveography -- if the designers can't make up their mind, that in itself bodes poorly for the project. #1 is a scattershot, and #2 is boringly familiar. Back to the drawing boards I say. @Kaizen has a point with the stair-stepped penthouse, but it is not enough to save this project. Neither concept has any "soul".