The podiums at the base of Vancouver House are massing in:
This might be a bit of a stretch, but the angular volumes as seen from under the Granville Bridge evoke the perspective of Haussmann’s Paris.
I took the picture above, by the way, after searching out the location where artist Gustave Caillebotte painted this iconic image – Paris Street; Rainy Day – in 1877 in Place de Dublin here.
Let’s see if there’s eventually a “Vancouver Street; Rainy Day.“
I have mixed feelings about this tower. Close-up, in its detailing and its relationship to the underbridge, it’s quite impressive. But from a distance it’s less positive. The view north on Alder from about W14th Ave. may be the tower at its ‘loomingest’.
https://www.google.ca/maps/@49.2594873,-123.1315152,3a,75y,17.78h,92.95t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sqSOOLfczNFSmo9R4ezccvQ!2e0!5s20180701T000000!7i16384!8i8192
People actually buy condos under the bridge with its perpetual darkness, guaranteed bad air and 24×7 noise ? I am surprised this is actually allowed in Canada.
Not quite what Haussmann had envisioned I guess ..
I think the podiums are office space and retail.
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I see the connection to the Haussmann look.
Other triangular sites will have a more “flatiron” look with taller buildings (i.e. Georgia & Pender)
It’s an overpass