Rectangular Boxes Dept: Until recently, the PCI Group’s Marine Gateway project had been viewed by many as an exciting new entryway to the city. Supporters saw it as bringing a cluster of offices and condos to a Canada Line station and new shopping to an underserved neighbourhood of mainly single-family homes mixed with some social housing and private apartments, according to The Globe and Mail. Local resident Jo-Anne Pringle was startled to find out two weeks ago that the project – originally planned as two smaller residential towers in a retail-office complex – had turned into one extremely large tower and a much smaller office building in a project the size of the Woodward’s complex in downtown Vancouver. The design, by noted Vancouver architect Peter Busby, is striking, with big, rectangular boxes piled on top of each other in steps for the main tower and those two facts are raising concerns about the development project at the city’s Canada Line station at Marine Drive in the sometimes forgotten south Vancouver neighbourhood of Marpole. But the project design that has evolved dramatically in the past year – a design that is going to get a preliminary review from the city’s urban design panel Wednesday – has taken many aback. As
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