Manchester Square | ?m | 2s | 76 Group Co | Gardner Architecture

[archited]

Oh, to be a fly on the wall. There should be loud head-scratching noises for this one.

 

[Daveography]

E. UPCOMING APPLICATIONS, CONFLICTS AND REGRETS (December 4, 2018)
Manchester Square - Formal - Ben Gardner - Gardner Architecture
https://www.edmonton.ca/city_government/documents/EdmontonDesignCommittee_Nov20_2018_Agenda.pdf

 

[Daveography]

 

[Kaizen]

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Looks better already, lol.
I hope this "EuroRenno" won't devalue the hood and somehow surprizes most of us

 

[Daveography]

Reference ID: Job No 289050106-002
Description: To construct an addition (mezzanine 1539.77m2) and exterior alterations to an existing Warehouse Sales Use building (new parking area and landscaping - Manchester Square).
Location: 12016 - 107 AVENUE NW
Plan 9223242 Blk 20 Lot 1
Applicant: GARDNER ARCHITECTURE INC.
Status: In Development Review
Create Date: 11/1/2018 8:53:08 AM
Neighbourhood: QUEEN MARY PARK

 

[quit]

This should have been built next to the Venetian condos.

 

[Daveography]

EDC Formal presentation Dec. 4:

FORMAL PRESENTATIONS (Open to the Public)
B.2. 16:30 Manchester Square (Development Permit)
Ben Gardner - Gardner Architecture

https://www.edmonton.ca/city_government/documents/EdmontonDesignCommittee_Dec4_2018_Agenda.pdf

 

[Daveography]

At the EDC meeting. It's still awful. In fact, I think the details make it vastly worse.

 

[archited]

@Daveography, if you groan perceptibly loudly, you can make your vote count too.

 

[Daveography]

I'm behaving myself, I'd like to continue attending these.

But godddd I hate this project

 

[Daveography]

Everytime the developer opens his mouth to describe his inspirations I find new ways to hate this.

 

[Daveography]

Feels like he's trying to game the development process, too; he's currently applying for a DP for the building shell, then going to Council for a rezone in a couple of months to adjust the parking, update permitted uses, and a few other things.

I'm guessing it's because he knows he'd never get the rezoning normally, but if he invests a bunch of time and money up front, it will be harder for Council to turn him down.

 

[Calgcouver]

Everytime the developer opens his mouth to describe his inspirations I find new ways to hate this.

Oh to be a fly on the wall on this one. I wonder if the way he verbalizes the inspiration behind this beauty is as jumbled and incoherent as the design itself.

 

[Kaizen]

Wow Dave, your going far beyond the call of duty for this one. I hope you brought some Pepto-Bismol with you. The colour pallet kind of reminds me of just that

 

[Daveography]

A handful of newer renders via https://www.manchestersquare.ca/

The videos and renders seem to imply more active frontages than what they showed at EDC, which was basically none outside of what faces the parking area. The entire north face is proposed to be one big grey wall.