The Regent at King Edward | ?m | 6s | Regent International | GBL Architects

[City Of Rain]

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[seamusmcuffs]

It's a shame that the condos being built right at Cambie and King Ed are by far the worst on the corridor in my opinion.

 

[City Of Rain]

Why? Is it because its close to the Canada Line station?

 

[seamusmcuffs]

Yeah, they're the first buildings you see after exiting the trainstation, and that's a pretty prominent corner for drivers as well. The intersection is going to be a hub for so many different things, would have been nice to have some architecture that reflects the intersections importance.

 

[Roundabout]

@seamusmcuffs

Yeah, they're the first buildings you see after exiting the trainstation, and that's a pretty prominent corner for drivers as well. The intersection is going to be a hub for so many different things, would have been nice to have some architecture that reflects the intersections importance.

Can you give some examples?

 

[Roundabout]

July 30th update:

 

[seamusmcuffs]

@seamusmcuffs Can you give some examples?

I don't really have any examples that spring to mind, there's plenty of different styles that could work. I think extra height would certainly help. Mostly though personally I think the architecture looks cheap and uses gimmicks to try and pass as decent, such as exposed concrete, coloured panels, and shiny panelling. The one right above the station is the worst for this, a ton of exposed concrete, red boxes, and shiny glass in an attempt to put lipstick on an absolute pig. It just makes it an eye sore, in my opinion.

 

[City Of Rain]

I personally don't like lowrise at all, my taste is it would be either single houses/townhouses or the highrise condos, Having said that, Vancouver style condo clones are just too plain looking and not high enough.

 

[seamusmcuffs]

^I don't mind the midrises at all, but I think increasing the scale directly at the intersection would have been good. Even something similar in scale to the building going up on Kingsway and Broadway would have added a lot of prominence to the corner. I also think the architecture is slightly better.

 

[City Of Rain]

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