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Bjarke Ingels attended the opening of the Seattle Central Library in 2004 before driving north to Vancouver and across Granville Street Bridge. “It was almost like a psychedelic city of glass in front of a big mountain,” he recalled of his impression of the skyline. “You go over the water and see this dense, dense downtown of green glass towers with wide mullions. It was very, very futuristic. One of the things that still amazes me when you come to Vancouver is everything looks brand new, like you have the feeling that it’s done 10 years ago.” The internationally known Danish architect, principal of Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), appeared at Thursday night’s open house at UBC Robson Square for the proposed Westbank development designed by Ingels at the north end of Granville bridge. He told the Courier one of the reasons he wanted to visit the city almost a decade ago was because of two of his favourite writers, William Gibson and Douglas Coupland. “So that was almost the reason — to see what was so special,” he said. Ingels’ own star power was evident at the open house, which attracted a seemingly endless stream of Vancouverites eager to examine the scale model of the project and meet the man behind the design. The high-profile development features a unique 52-storey residential tower that “grows,” according to Ingels, rather than twists from a triangular shape at the base to a rectangular shape at the top. The proposal envisions 407 units in the Howe Street tower and a 10-storey podium housing retail and 95 residential (market rental) units. The Granville and Pacific Street sites include six-storey triangular shaped buildings providing retail and office uses. Ingels said Vancouver has a very successful urban model with a residential downtown that’s walkable, which combines the qualities of a dense European city with an Asian type of city with highrises. “Maybe architecturally it hasn’t been explored a lot. It’s very uniform the way it’s been realized. We just wanted to take this model and maybe turn the podium into a village of smaller elements, and then also the tower — that’s maybe one of the main visions of the project. Take an area that’s challenged by being under the bridge and really turn it into an attraction, trying to create a successful, lively neighbourhood under the canopy of the bridges above.” Despite its unique shape, Ingels believes the tower fits in well with the city’s existing skyline. “I think it is actually quite a unique project and I think it has the quality that it’s not some kind of landmark with some kind of exotic cap or spire at the top. It’s more that from some angles it looks very discrete and from other angles you realize it has this feminine aspect to it.” Johannes Petzel who lives two blocks away from the site, agrees it would fit in. “There are so many other developments going in that area. It’s a changing neighbourhood. The style and architecture is great for Vancouver. It’s a good break from the bread and butter architecture that doesn’t seem to change much over the years,” he said. Scott Erdman lives in the West End and works for the provincial government. He dropped by the open house because of an interest in planning and architecture and a desire to see the 3-D model and find out more details about the project. “I really like it. I like that it doesn’t look like any other building that we have in the city right now. It’s definitely unique,” he said. “I think it’ll make a very nice addition. It’ll stand out and it will be eye catching. It won’t look like every other glass tower that we have now.” UBC architecture student Amanda Lwanga said she loves the way the shape of the tower plays with the eye. “[The design] blends in well with the other buildings, but it stands out because of the different shapes and texture. A lot of the other buildings are plain glass. This one pops but it still complements the other buildings,” she said. “I think it will [fit in] because the materials he’s used are similar but the way he’s arranged them with the use of the metal and glass is very different.” But at least one Vancouverite isn’t dazzled by the architect or his design. A post on CityHallWatch, a site run by Randy Helten, maintains some of the elements in the proposal are problematic. The post cites concerns ranging from the tower’s height and its impact on Vancouver views to how it would withstand a major earthquake. The City of Vancouver collected feedback at the open house and staff from various departments are reviewing details about the proposal. Kevin McNaney told the Courier earlier this week that once that work is completed, a report to council will be drafted and the proposal is expected go to public hearing by the summer. noconnor@vancourier.com

 

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-art-gallery-s-new-design-revealed-1.3248360

 

Vancouver Art Gallery's new design revealed

 

Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron were picked to come up with the new design

 

CBC News

 

Posted: Sep 29, 2015 9:11 AM PT Last Updated: Sep 29, 2015 11:50 AM PT

 

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A sneak peak at the new design proposal for the new Vancouver Art Gallery. (Kirk Williams/CBC)

A radical new design proposal for the Vancouver Art Gallery was revealed this morning, but the funding to the new building has yet to fall into place.

The 20-storey, 310,000-square-foot wood design speaks to the city's heritage, Vancouver artist Jeff Wall said at the unveiling on Tuesday morning.

Swiss architects
Herzog & de Meuron were picked
to come up with the new design in 2014.

 

The new gallery would be located at West Georgia and Cambie streets in downtown Vancouver. The site, which is currently a parking lot,
was donated to the gallery by the city
, on the condition that gallery raise the funding for the project.

 

 

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Larwill Park at Cambie and Georgia Streets in Vancouver will be the home of the new Vancouver Art Gallery. (CBC)

 

Previous estimates have pegged the budget at
$300 million
, but so far only a fraction of the cost has been raised.

Herzog & de Meuron's past projects include many high-profile public buildings around the world, including:

 

  • Tate Modern in London.

  • Schaulager in Basel.

  • Pérez Art Museum in Miami.

  • Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

  • De Young Museum in San Francisco.

  • Prada Aoyama in Tokyo.

  • National Stadium ("Bird's Nest") in Beijing.

 

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Design distinctif qui nous rappelle un peu l'architecture traditionnelle asiatique. Cependant au premier coup d'oeil, je ne suis pas sûr que j'aime vraiment. Comme il semble qu'il sera seul sur son quadrilatère, il n'y aura pas de véritable problème d'intégration. Disons que cela pourra aider à l'apprécier avec un certain recul sur toutes ses façades, comme une sorte de sculpture géante ou jeu de blocs au milieu de la place.

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Herzog pour le musée à Vancouver puis Libeskind pour l'agrandissement à Quebec. Ça monte à quand notre dernière projet de startichect à Montreal?

 

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Some new pics!

 

http://architizer.com/blog/the-urban-totem/

 

The Urban Totem: Herzog and De Meuron’s Vancouver Art Gallery Could Be Canada’s Next Great Cultural Icon

 

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I like the fact that the city is working on building a distinctive projert to house a art gallery but if these guy's have done it all over North America then I wouldn't want them to come here. I would prefer to have a different group or architect, hopefully local, to create something new.

 

But this reminds me of what we can do wih the MAC. This museum has apparently an amazing collection but the building itself doesn't give any credit to the museum nor does it attract the attention with it's architectural exterior. Instead of going wider they could build higher, just like this one in Vancouver seems to be moving towards.

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