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09-17-2021, 02:31 PM (This post was last modified: 09-17-2021, 03:06 PM by ac3r.)
Found this interesting massing image over on another website (credit to emphur). While it's lacking at least a dozen or more other proposals and active construction projects, it gives you a pretty good idea of how dense downtown is starting to get. If it had included all the current proposals, it would look even more transformative.
If anyone with a bit of time to waste wants to make one with every single proposal, I'd be curious to see it.
(09-17-2021, 02:31 PM)ac3r Wrote: Found this interesting massing image over on another website (credit to emphur. While it's lacking at least a dozen or more other proposals and active construction projects, it gives you a pretty good idea of how dense downtown is starting to get. If it had included all the current proposals, it would look even more transformative.
If anyone with a bit of time to waste wants to make one with every single proposal, I'd be curious to see it.
Oops, should have mentioned that. White are projects under construction and purple are proposed projects. In that regard, it's a little out dated since this was posted in August.
Definitely an interesting idea, but it seems to be significantly exaggerating some of the massing. The two foreground station park buildings obviously won't take up the sidewalk, and the transit terminal won't be that big either.
But it does show what DTK could look like in the future.
Found this on Reddit from a local video journalist that works for CTV:
Quote:The parking lot behind CTV is also going to be developed. They’ve been drilling for soil samples all week. I’d guess that the medical centre on Pine will also come down soon because that parking lot has been empty for a couple months.
Not sure if that is a city owned lot or not, but it'd be nice to see that get developed into something. Not sure about the medical building though, it could have just been empty due to the pandemic.
(09-18-2021, 10:24 AM)ac3r Wrote: Found this on Reddit from a local video journalist that works for CTV:
Quote:The parking lot behind CTV is also going to be developed. They’ve been drilling for soil samples all week. I’d guess that the medical centre on Pine will also come down soon because that parking lot has been empty for a couple months.
Not sure if that is a city owned lot or not, but it'd be nice to see that get developed into something. Not sure about the medical building though, it could have just been empty due to the pandemic.
Looks like the medical building and parking lot are owned by the same company. So this speculation sounds legitimate.
(09-17-2021, 02:31 PM)ac3r Wrote: Found this interesting massing image over on another website (credit to emphur). While it's lacking at least a dozen or more other proposals and active construction projects, it gives you a pretty good idea of how dense downtown is starting to get. If it had included all the current proposals, it would look even more transformative.
If anyone with a bit of time to waste wants to make one with every single proposal, I'd be curious to see it.
I've been working on one for a good while! It's been slow moving because its been hard to get floor & site plans for things like Station Park / The Bright building, so it involves significantly more time creating those
Came across this today & thought I’d share? Pretty neat! Thoughts??
Ohh I missed this, awesome to see it's done! Or at least somewhat done. I had totally forgotten Eric was even working on this lol.
I've been trying to help KW developments get more exposure over at UT since they had projects there for pretty much every city surrounding the GTA except KW. I think some are finally gaining some traction.
(09-24-2021, 11:15 AM)Bjays93 Wrote: I've been trying to help KW developments get more exposure over at UT since they had projects there for pretty much every city surrounding the GTA except KW. I think some are finally gaining some traction.
I suspect most other cities do not have as active (independent) forums as we do.
Cool models in that UT thread, though the giant watermarks are obnoxious. Our skyline is truly hard to capture because it's so spread out across the region. It'll eventually be 3 skylines in the cores, but then in time, each LRT will have its own miniature one.
![[Image: WzfQVbV.png]](https://i.imgur.com/WzfQVbV.png)
