West Village Towers | 149.95m | 42s | Cidex Group | NORR Dubai Yahya Jan

[Chinese_T]

If the podium gets built as designed, it definitely won't be bland, it could turn out to be one of the nicer elements of this project.

You jinxed it! (/s)

 

[Dārayavauš]

No we don't. It's not the city's job to design buildings, they have enough power in the process already. What we need is for less shitty Architects and Developers to get prominent sites. NORR and Cidex should be wholly embarassed by that podium.

You’re going to be pleased with the Elbow development that CIDEX is doing then

 

[Dārayavauš]

Metro is now closed. Drove by this morning.

Is that large upscale mall + 4 apartment buildings by One going ahead there now? Here’s hoping!

 

[MichaelS]

The DP for tower 3 goes to CPC next week. We saw a lot of the details already when the DC bylaw went earlier this year.
Report, Background, DP Drawings, Applicant Submission, UDRP Comments, CA Letter,

Looks like one retail tennant is really going to move you

 

[DiscoStu]

It's got a Juicy Fruit boutique, I'm sold.

 

[haltcatchfire]

Get your spandrel shined up
Grab a stick of Juicy Fruit
Place I ain't gonna move in

 

[The Familia]

Wow! So it will end up looking nothing like the rendering…I’d rather it get built than left as a hole. Too bad tower three wasn’t shorter and rotated 90 degrees….

 

[FriendlyDrunks]

Ya I'm no engineer, but can we rotate that 90 degrees please?

 

[CBBarnett]

It’s been discussed so many times but that podium…. what’s the design goal? Increase corners and complexity to allow for more construction errors? For what reason? So we have have different colours and sloped pieces of building envelope? It seems like it’s everything - intentional, expensive and overly complex, while also being unattractive and uninviting.

Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe it’s me who is out of touch with design and architecture trends. Maybe the mass of the building itself will counteract this main floor design, so a successful retail experience will occur regardless - close to 1,000 units on a single block is no joke. Juicy fruits will get business if it’s in a classy place or otherwise.

I just can’t see what they are going for here. At least the sidewalks are generous though!

 

[outoftheice]

The podiums definitely suck on every level but what I'd really love to see is the top of tower 3 being flat. Right now the skyline with the 3 towers is going to look like \ \ / If the tower had a flat top the skyline would look like \ - / which I feel has a much more symmetric, pleasant look.

 

[maestro]

I was half expecting a simpler design that packs in more units.

 

[FCC1982]

Wow! So it will end up looking nothing like the rendering…I’d rather it get built than left as a hole. Too bad tower three wasn’t shorter taller and rotated 90 degrees….

Fixed that for ya.

 

[Albertasaurus]

The 2 existing towers play of one another very well, adding visual interest while beefing up the skyline on the west side of downtown. If they simply rotated the tower or changed the top to something not identical to the other 2, as some have suggested, the overall development could look fine. As it is, the 3 towers together, with 2 oriented one way, will just look uneven and, well...weird.

 

[haltcatchfire]

So bizarre to me that they didn't see the obvious peak to the third tower to make a W.

 

[Albertasaurus]

It'll be interesting to see what happens at CPC tomorrow re: this one. In order to get the extra height for the 3rd tower, they had to tap into density bonusing. They somehow got credit for "exceptional design" which I find rather confounding. How the heck does redesigning the 3rd tower to look exactly like the first two earn credit for "exceptional design"? Either way, it could be an interesting discussion.

Either way, assuming CPC approval I could see this one moving forward relatively quickly, since Cidex is wrapping up Hat on 14th.