This is a Hariri Pontarini design, and these renderings are thanks to them:
And there's this lil wee one:
Thanks HPA!
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And there's this lil wee one:
Thanks HPA!
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You got to start somewhere though. Restaurants and hotels such as these create jobs, and you don't have urban high rise living without jobs.This tower isn't representative of urban living. It's representative of a resort next to an attraction. There has been one of these proposed every few year for the past 15 years. How is this any different? It's a restaurateur and not an established GTA developer with international connections to pull of a grandiose, billion dollar complex.
The population of the greater Niagara area is irrelevant. There are better options for urban high rise living in Hamilton.
It is maximizing amenity and programming space on the roof, not urbanism.What's what that podium? It looks urbanistically bankrupt (not that there is much on that strip to bankrupt, but...)
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The bracketed phrase is the operative one there: the area is horrible overall, with nothing for pedestrians. I am surprised that the City of Niagara Falls does not/has not required new developments in the area to improve the public realm enough to make walking towards the falls into a pleasant experience, but they simply don't care. I actually see this podium as preferable to the patchwork of surface parking lots that predominate otherwise nearby… but not seen in those renderings is a linked above-ground garage to the west that won't be any better than the car-first planning one finds in similar places, ie. Las Vegas, which I believe that Niagara Falls aspires to be.What's what that podium? It looks urbanistically bankrupt (not that there is much on that strip to bankrupt, but...)
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The bracketed phrase is the operative one there: the area is horrible overall, with nothing for pedestrians. I am surprised that the City of Niagara Falls does not/has not required new developments in the area to improve the public realm enough to make walking towards the falls into a pleasant experience, but they simply don't care. I actually see this podium as preferable to the patchwork of surface parking lots that predominate otherwise nearby… but not seen in those renderings is a linked above-ground garage to the west that won't be any better than the car-first planning one finds in similar places, ie. Las Vegas, which I believe that Niagara Falls aspires to be.
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That's because it's located in the area where you can see the Horseshoe Falls close. That's why they have most of the tall buildings in that location as you can see in the photos up above.This building isn't within comfortable walking distance to Clifton Hill. In fact, it is as far from Clifton Hill as Marineland.
Clifton Hill isn't very close to the Falls, this tower is...This building isn't within comfortable walking distance to Clifton Hill. In fact, it is as far from Clifton Hill as Marineland.
This building isn't within comfortable walking distance to Clifton Hill. In fact, it is as far from Clifton Hill as Marineland.