Vancouver, the coastal harbour city in British Columbia, Canada, will soon be home to an astonishing new development christened as the 1021 West Hastings project. The new office building’s development has been initiated by Oxford Properties, one of North America’s largest commercial real estate investment, development and management firms who recently revealed the design of the planned skyscraper.
The building, as has been revealed, will be 35 storeys tall and will spread over a total area of 270,000 sq ft. The site of the project, 1021 West Hastings, is most popularly known as the historic University and Quadra Clubs site. The architect for the project is Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) and Ledcor will be working on this development as the lead contractor.
The Vancouver tower, promised Blake Hutcheson, the president and CEO of Oxford Properties, will be a crowned jewel at the Vancouver skyline. He added that some of the most important needs of the hour such as sustainable elements providing the desired efficiency to a building will be incorporated at this new build. The tower will also offer tenant options, he said. The building will also serve as home to a new restaurant and fitness facility.
The tower has been designed to include VRF HVAC system, the first of its kind in an office facility and in order to prevent loss of energy triple-paned glazing has been included in the design plan of the building. The structure is targeting LEED Gold Core and Shell on reaching completion. Adding a dash of new to the old façade of the building will be a new entrance and landscaped space for the public.
For a comfortable access to the building, it will be well connected to different modern means of commutation such as bike lanes, SkyTrain, West Coast Express, bus services, Helijet and seaplane. Construction has been stated to soon begin at 1021 West Hastings and will reach completion during the sunny days of the year 2014.
Via: TheConstructionIndex
