Danish architect Bjarke Ingels was in Vancouver a few months ago, at a ULI City in 2050 event. At the time, he hinted at an audacious project planned for New York City.
Now we know:
More here, along with the compulsory cool video:
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Nice. It’s really a quadrangle within a pyramid.
But as residential, something similar is unlikley to be built in Vancouver.
It looks like it would easily meet the requirements for exterior balconies.
But there’s no street wall on the lower edge of the pyramid (and the City is looking for taller street walls these days (i.e. SEFC on West 2nd will be about 6 storeys)) , and on the back side, there’s too much street wall, casting a lot of shadow on that street (think back side of the Law Courts at Robson Square).
Plus the wide pyramid shape is bound to block some’s view (that side of the quadrangle is really a dressed-up slab tower).
Too bad.