SKYLINES YVR: Olé Olé! It TAKES TWO ~ Two VILLAGES in the SKY to create a NEW “BARCLAY VILLAGE “ (Everyone’s familiar with British musician/singer Ed Sheernan). Here, meet Büro Ole SCHEEREN & the proposed #designs for twin Vancouver skyscrapers as be #verticalvillages Ole Scheeren‘s revealed plans for Vancouver’s rather stagnant West End, would be formed from irregularly stacked glass boxes interlaced with greenery. . Named “ Barclay Village”, because the pair of towers will be located at Barclay Street, smack dab in between the Davie & Robson Villages on a hillcrest plot set among lower-rise West End apartments. (Clever way to stand out - for a little while anyway) .. The West End Vancouver hasn’t seen any significant new inventory in quite some time. Now urban land economics & market forces supersede any NIMBYism of recent past. The crushing need for housing eclipses is everything. Vancouver can’t even find #housing for its newly arrived squadrons of young #construction workers! How’s that for a bizarre conundrum? According to the #architect the design draws upon arranging the various massing blocks of both Robson /Davie villages, into this oddly-shaped yet striking, stacked glass cubes, scaled to match nearby low-rise buildings. This lends opportunities, for:• large terraces • large vertical landscapes of greenery interlaced • intermittences of mirror finishes to reflect beautiful surrounding parklands. At a Glance: • site - 1070 Barclay @ Thurlow St. • 481 market-strata residences • 162 SOCIAL HOUSING units • 548m² /5894ft² City-owned CHILDCARE facility • 420m² /4520ft² commercial retail units • 5-min. walk to Nelson Park • 15-min. walk to Stanley Park & Coal Harbour. • Vancouver’s a NEW FORTUNE CITY —— (like it or not) its fetish for the TOWERING & TOTEMIC will never go away. Well, botbin my lifetime. We’ll see what Mother Nature has to say ... anyway. #towering #totemic #skylinesyvr #newfortunecity #smallstudiodesign (at West End, Vancouver)
