Onni are close to completing their artists live/work project on Great Northern Way called Canvas. Now they’ve submitted a four building development application for a site close by, part of the University Campus rezoning.
Strangely, the City of Vancouver haven’t posted any renderings of the four buildings – two 13 and 15 storey live-work buildings with retail at grade and a total of 220 units, a 15 storey hotel with 199 rooms and a 7 storey office building. We’ve posted the render of the south elevation of the live-work buildings that would front E 1st. We’ve also added the image on the rezoning notice, that makes more sense of the design rationale offered by the architects, IBI, citing colours from Rubik’s cube and references digital art like Douglas Coupland’s digital orca (at the Convention Centre). It won’t end up looking exactly like this as the Urban Design Panel didn’t support this initial design.
