Here’s Concord’s latest under construction: The Arc, as seen from under the Cambie Bridge.
In a mega-project going back to the late 1980s, Concord Pacific is at last getting more adventuresome in its architecture.
I wonder if it’s the impact of residential design in cities like Singapore or even Dubai, where design is used more provocatively than our culture typically thinks appropriate (and why, I think, our colour palette is so constrained, running all the way from ‘cloudy day’ to ‘seafoam’).
Great shot! Slight error on the naming. Its actually the Arc by Concord Pacific
Wasn’t this the site that was to receive all the transferred office floor space originally designated for the Georgia/Beatty site? I wonder what happened to that transfer? Obviously got converted toto residential somewhere along the line.
All I know is, this is going to be a very noisy spot to try and live in.
Parked money isn’t bothered by noise.
Yeah, sort of a “bait and switch”.
There was the transfer of commercial density from the Spectrum/Costco site to the Cambie Bridgehead parcels – but the transfer was with an option for “Mixed Use” – and the only actual office building that was built at the Cambie Bridgehead was PCI’s Pivotal Building.
The Bridgehead parcels are: Pivotal Building (office) site, The Max (condo) site, One Pacific (condo) site and The Arc (condo) site. The only commercial space in the Mixed Use condo buildings is limited to the podiums of the buildings. At The Max and The Arc – one floor. At One Pacific – 2 floors.
I don’t think that Concord builds office buildings (it seems to sell off parcels to another developer who will do so).
Thank you, well-informed Guest! Bait and switch says it all. There was a near-mutiny among senior COV planners when we found out this switch had been made. The Beatty Street site was tailor-made for transit-oriented office and hotel uses.
PS – that transfer of commercial density left the Rogers Arena office tower stranded on its own, and it was eventually built as mixed use with rental apartments on the upper floors.
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