VANCOUVER | 2010 Winter Olympics - Athlete's Village Development News

Vancouverite · October 12th, 2007, 11:35 PM

In Vancouver we are building the 2010 Winter Olympics Athlete's Village to exceptional levels of sustainability. After the games three quarters of the the 1,000+ residential dwellings will be sold at market rates while approximately 250 will become non-market housing for seniors and low income singles and families. This is intended to be a demonstration of the best urban planning, architectural, and engineering practices in the world today and act as the model for future local high-density development. The larger Southeast False Creek neighbourhood, of which the Olympic Village is the first phase, will include an elementary school, a streetcar line, parks, day cares, commercial, retail, office space, at least one grocery store, a community centre, a marina for non-motorized boats and kayaks, and a mixture of subsidized and market housing for 10,000 to 15,000 people, all built to very high levels of environmental sustainability (minimum LEED Silver equivalence).

The 16 building, 1.4 million square foot, single phase Olympic Village is being built to the LEED Gold standard while the Community Centre is being built to LEED Platinum. The building that will become seniors' housing is going to attempt to reach the Net-Zero standard, which represents annual energy, water, and carbon neutrality. All of the buildings will feature green roofs, passive solar design, beyond-code insulation and glazing, and low/no VOC paint and carpets. Rain water will be retained in cisterns to be used for irrigation of the green roofs and landscaping. The buildings will be heated and cooled using an in-slab hydronic system connected to a hybrid district heating/cooling system powered by high-efficiency natural gas boilers and heat exchange system that will use both ground-source heat pipes and an innovative heat exchange system tied into the sewer pipes to recover their latent heat. Electricity comes from local hydroelectric dams. A streetcar will run through the neighbourhood and connect it to two nearby rapid transit stations. All parking is underground and well below average in its parking to dwelling ratio.

As an interesting final note, after the Olympics the buyers of the Village’s apartments and rowhouses will be given the names and nationalities of the athletes who stayed in their homes while competing. I think that’s a nice touch.

Source: www.millenniumwater.com

Source: City of Vancouver

Aerial photo source: http://www.globalairphotos.com/image...ch2007_396.jpg

Aerial photo source: http://www.globalairphotos.com/image...ch2007_457.jpg

Buildings (Detailed models/renders)

Community Centre

Source: City of Vancouver

Source: City of Vancouver

123 West 1st Avenue

Source: www.millenniumwater.com

Parks

"Crane" Pocket Park - Public Memory of the Industrial Past

Source: City of Vancouver

My Photos

A link to a very large, hand-stitched panorama I took in the summer of 2007 showing the construction and context of the Olympic Village. There are 13 or 14 cranes visible in this photo.

The Olympic Village precinct at sunset, October 22nd, 2007.

Source: My Photo ( Vancouverite in SSC | SFUVancouver in SSP )

The Olympic Village precinct at dusk, November 10th, 2007.

Source: My Photo ( Vancouverite in SSC | SFUVancouver in SSP )

Lots more information can be found at:
City of Vancouver Olympic Village site.
www.MillenniumWater.com is the developer's sales website.

Thank you ImageShack for free photo hosting.

Rojo · October 13th, 2007, 01:39 AM

Nice place to build it!!!

sagaex3 · October 13th, 2007, 06:01 AM

I love vancouver, I love canada and the people . Good luck in this games. I agree rojo nice place.

xXFallenXx · October 15th, 2007, 01:59 AM

How is it possible to be water neutral?

Vanman · October 15th, 2007, 02:11 AM

^ Probably cause it collects as much rain water as it uses.

xXFallenXx · October 15th, 2007, 02:47 AM

oh duh!!!
im an idiot!
they get like tons of rain so that would be no prob.

johnz88 · October 15th, 2007, 04:35 AM

This is a real good move by Vancouver, making the whole thing as environmentally friendly as could be. Vancouver has been known for being green, now they can show the world a little more on how to build eco-friendly.

mr.x · October 15th, 2007, 10:48 AM

^ well, this isn't the only thing Vancouver is going green for. Its newly expanded convention centre on the downtown central waterfront uses green practices, including Canada's largest green grass roof.

More information: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=485030

The convention centre will be completed in early 2009, and will be used for the Main Press Centre and International Broadcast Centre during the 2010 Olympics.

isaidso · October 17th, 2007, 03:35 AM

Looks like I need to get a boyfriend from Vancouver.

***Mo Rush*** · October 18th, 2007, 07:24 PM

WOW...are those renders the final design...so it will all be built before 2010? or will parts be built after 2010? it really is fantastic!

mr.x · October 18th, 2007, 10:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mo Rush

WOW...are those renders the final design...so it will all be built before 2010? or will parts be built after 2010? it really is fantastic!

What you see in those renders and diagrams will be built by early 2009 and will house 2,500 athletes and many more officials during the Games. After the Games, the Olympic Village will become housing for 5,000 people. It is phase one of the Southeast False Creek Redevelopment Project.....there should be 20,000 people living in this red/yellow highlighted area by 2020:

There's a second Olympic Village up the mountain at Whistler. The ice sport athletes stay in Vancouver while the snow sport athletes stay in Whistler....approx. 2500 here and 2500 there.

Coral Builder · October 19th, 2007, 05:51 AM

Any Picks of the Whistler development plans??

mr.x · October 19th, 2007, 06:49 AM

Whistler Olympic Village
http://www.whistler.ca/images/storie...e%201-1000.pdf

Vancouverite · October 21st, 2007, 03:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mr.x

The ice sport athletes stay in Vancouver while the snow sport athletes stay in Whistler....approx. 2500 here and 2500 there.

It's funny, I haven't thought about it that way before but you're right, that's the distinction between the Vancouver and Whistler portions of the Games. (With the small exception of the Freestyle Ski events that will be held on Cypress Mountain, adjacent to Vancouver)

There are now seven fixed construction cranes above the Vancouver Olympic Village site. Several of the buildings under construction are about to cross over to being above ground.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mo Rush

WOW...are those renders the final design...so it will all be built before 2010? or will parts be built after 2010? it really is fantastic!

Yes, that is the final design. However the render we're talking about (second image in my initial post) doesn't really show the different materials that are going to be used. There will certainly be some floor to ceiling glass walls, but there will also be brick, painted concrete, probably some stucco (I hope not but there is way too much precedent in this city to rule it out), and some rather unusual fritted glass walls. I attended most of the urban design panel meetings for the Olympic Village/Southeast False Creek in the year leading up to the finalization of the design and it was fascinating watching the model table transform from amorphous blank massing blocks into the architectural scale models that are also in my original post.

I can't wait to see this all come together.

Vancouverite · October 21st, 2007, 10:38 PM

I've updated one of the aerial context photos to indicate the location of BC Place stadium and GM Place stadium. The former will be used for the opening and closing ceremonies and nightly medal presentation ceremonies. The latter will be used for ice hockey. (Thanks mr.x2 for the correction)

Aerial photo source: http://www.globalairphotos.com/image...ch2007_396.jpg

mr.x · October 21st, 2007, 10:42 PM

^ GM Place won't be hosting any figure skating, just hockey. The Pacific Coliseum will host both figure skating and short-track speed skating.

7-cranes are up

photos from www.flickr.com, posted by delirium

Vancouverite · October 23rd, 2007, 07:25 AM

Source: My Photo ( Vancouverite in SSC | SFUVancouver in SSP )

Source: My Photo ( Vancouverite in SSC | SFUVancouver in SSP )

I took these in the midst of a breathtaking, sudden fall sunset today and the light faded moments after I snapped the last photo. In order to start taking photos before I lost the light I ran from the bus stop, past the sales centre for the Olympic Village where I saw people camping out in line in order to buy the condos and townhouses and they don’t even go on sale for five more days.

mr.x · October 23rd, 2007, 07:47 AM

^ holy crap, those are amazing...thanks! good enough for my wallpaper!

Quote:

I took these in the midst of a breathtaking, sudden fall sunset today. The light faded moments after I snapped the last photo. In order to capture the light I ran past the sales centre for the Olympic Village and there were people camped out in line in order to buy the condos and townhouses and they don’t even go on sale for five more days.

you ran all the way there to take these pics? you should go into the paparazzi business.

Second City · October 23rd, 2007, 08:15 AM

I love cranes!!!!

mr.x · October 30th, 2007, 04:21 AM

from SSP:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Delirium

some pics i found on www.flickr.com

you can see that they've started planting trees on habitat island and along the new seawall

October 12th, 2007, 11:35 PM	#1
Vancouverite Registered User Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Vancouver Posts: 441	VANCOUVER \| 2010 Winter Olympics - Athlete's Village Development News In Vancouver we are building the 2010 Winter Olympics Athlete's Village to exceptional levels of sustainability. After the games three quarters of the the 1,000+ residential dwellings will be sold at market rates while approximately 250 will become non-market housing for seniors and low income singles and families. This is intended to be a demonstration of the best urban planning, architectural, and engineering practices in the world today and act as the model for future local high-density development. The larger Southeast False Creek neighbourhood, of which the Olympic Village is the first phase, will include an elementary school, a streetcar line, parks, day cares, commercial, retail, office space, at least one grocery store, a community centre, a marina for non-motorized boats and kayaks, and a mixture of subsidized and market housing for 10,000 to 15,000 people, all built to very high levels of environmental sustainability (minimum LEED Silver equivalence). The 16 building, 1.4 million square foot, single phase Olympic Village is being built to the LEED Gold standard while the Community Centre is being built to LEED Platinum. The building that will become seniors' housing is going to attempt to reach the Net-Zero standard, which represents annual energy, water, and carbon neutrality. All of the buildings will feature green roofs, passive solar design, beyond-code insulation and glazing, and low/no VOC paint and carpets. Rain water will be retained in cisterns to be used for irrigation of the green roofs and landscaping. The buildings will be heated and cooled using an in-slab hydronic system connected to a hybrid district heating/cooling system powered by high-efficiency natural gas boilers and heat exchange system that will use both ground-source heat pipes and an innovative heat exchange system tied into the sewer pipes to recover their latent heat. Electricity comes from local hydroelectric dams. A streetcar will run through the neighbourhood and connect it to two nearby rapid transit stations. All parking is underground and well below average in its parking to dwelling ratio. As an interesting final note, after the Olympics the buyers of the Village’s apartments and rowhouses will be given the names and nationalities of the athletes who stayed in their homes while competing. I think that’s a nice touch. Source: www.millenniumwater.com Source: www.millenniumwater.com Source: www.millenniumwater.com Source: City of Vancouver Source: City of Vancouver Source: City of Vancouver Aerial photo source: http://www.globalairphotos.com/image...ch2007_396.jpg Aerial photo source: http://www.globalairphotos.com/image...ch2007_457.jpg Buildings (Detailed models/renders) Community Centre Source: City of Vancouver Source: City of Vancouver 123 West 1st Avenue Source: www.millenniumwater.com Parks "Crane" Pocket Park - Public Memory of the Industrial Past Source: City of Vancouver My Photos A link to a very large, hand-stitched panorama I took in the summer of 2007 showing the construction and context of the Olympic Village. There are 13 or 14 cranes visible in this photo. The Olympic Village precinct at sunset, October 22nd, 2007. Source: My Photo ( Vancouverite in SSC \| SFUVancouver in SSP ) The Olympic Village precinct at dusk, November 10th, 2007. Source: My Photo ( Vancouverite in SSC \| SFUVancouver in SSP ) Lots more information can be found at: City of Vancouver Olympic Village site. www.MillenniumWater.com is the developer's sales website. Thank you ImageShack for free photo hosting. __________________ Vancouverite in SSC \| SFUVancouver in SSP Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Athlete's Village \| 1.4M sqft, LEED GOLD Vancouver \| Beautiful, Multicultural \| Canada's Pacific Metropolis Last edited by Vancouverite; November 12th, 2007 at 01:02 AM.

October 13th, 2007, 01:39 AM	#2
Rojo Tijuana makes me happy Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Tijuana Posts: 5,168	Nice place to build it!!! __________________ "En tiempos dificiles, es un honor servir a Tijuana"

October 13th, 2007, 06:01 AM	#3
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October 15th, 2007, 01:59 AM	#4
xXFallenXx Stone feel goooooood. Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Temecula, CA. Posts: 3,582	How is it possible to be water neutral? __________________ Cigarettes-The coolest form of suicide

October 15th, 2007, 02:47 AM	#6
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October 15th, 2007, 02:11 AM	#5
Vanman Registered User Join Date: May 2004 Location: Vancouver Posts: 517	^ Probably cause it collects as much rain water as it uses.

October 15th, 2007, 04:35 AM	#7
johnz88 polska88 Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Kitchener Posts: 128	This is a real good move by Vancouver, making the whole thing as environmentally friendly as could be. Vancouver has been known for being green, now they can show the world a little more on how to build eco-friendly. __________________ polska do boju

October 15th, 2007, 10:48 AM	#8
mr.x Ex-mod Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: █♣█ Vancouver Posts: 7,859	^ well, this isn't the only thing Vancouver is going green for. Its newly expanded convention centre on the downtown central waterfront uses green practices, including Canada's largest green grass roof. More information: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=485030 The convention centre will be completed in early 2009, and will be used for the Main Press Centre and International Broadcast Centre during the 2010 Olympics. __________________ "My Homer is not a communist. He may be a liar, a pig, an idiot, a communist, but he is NOT a porn star." - Abe Simpson "Preparations for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics are progressing so well, it's boring. We'd like there to be some challenges, so we [the IOC] could shout at them." - IOC (Sept. 2007) "In medieval Europe if you didn't like somebody's argument and couldn't think of a real response you called them a witch and demanded they be burned at the stake. In the US you call them unpatriotic, and in Canada you call them racist."

October 17th, 2007, 03:35 AM	#9
isaidso the new republic Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: The United Provinces of America Posts: 8,459	Looks like I need to get a boyfriend from Vancouver. Last edited by isaidso; February 22nd, 2008 at 10:46 AM.

October 18th, 2007, 07:24 PM	#10
*Mo Rush* life.love.everything else Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Cape Town Posts: 21,146	WOW...are those renders the final design...so it will all be built before 2010? or will parts be built after 2010? it really is fantastic! __________________ 2010 FINAL DRAW - CAPE TOWN The eyes of the world on Cape Town

October 19th, 2007, 05:51 AM	#12
Coral Builder Registered User Join Date: May 2007 Location: Montreal Posts: 184	Any Picks of the Whistler development plans??

October 19th, 2007, 06:49 AM	#13
mr.x Ex-mod Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: █♣█ Vancouver Posts: 7,859	Whistler Olympic Village http://www.whistler.ca/images/storie...e%201-1000.pdf __________________ "My Homer is not a communist. He may be a liar, a pig, an idiot, a communist, but he is NOT a porn star." - Abe Simpson "Preparations for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics are progressing so well, it's boring. We'd like there to be some challenges, so we [the IOC] could shout at them." - IOC (Sept. 2007) "In medieval Europe if you didn't like somebody's argument and couldn't think of a real response you called them a witch and demanded they be burned at the stake. In the US you call them unpatriotic, and in Canada you call them racist."

October 21st, 2007, 10:38 PM	#15
Vancouverite Registered User Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Vancouver Posts: 441	Aerial context photo update I've updated one of the aerial context photos to indicate the location of BC Place stadium and GM Place stadium. The former will be used for the opening and closing ceremonies and nightly medal presentation ceremonies. The latter will be used for ice hockey. (Thanks mr.x2 for the correction) Aerial photo source: http://www.globalairphotos.com/image...ch2007_396.jpg __________________ Vancouverite in SSC \| SFUVancouver in SSP Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Athlete's Village \| 1.4M sqft, LEED GOLD Vancouver \| Beautiful, Multicultural \| Canada's Pacific Metropolis Last edited by Vancouverite; October 21st, 2007 at 11:56 PM.

October 21st, 2007, 10:42 PM	#16
mr.x Ex-mod Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: █♣█ Vancouver Posts: 7,859	^ GM Place won't be hosting any figure skating, just hockey. The Pacific Coliseum will host both figure skating and short-track speed skating. 7-cranes are up photos from www.flickr.com, posted by delirium __________________ "My Homer is not a communist. He may be a liar, a pig, an idiot, a communist, but he is NOT a porn star." - Abe Simpson "Preparations for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics are progressing so well, it's boring. We'd like there to be some challenges, so we [the IOC] could shout at them." - IOC (Sept. 2007) "In medieval Europe if you didn't like somebody's argument and couldn't think of a real response you called them a witch and demanded they be burned at the stake. In the US you call them unpatriotic, and in Canada you call them racist."

October 23rd, 2007, 07:25 AM	#17
Vancouverite Registered User Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Vancouver Posts: 441	Olympic Village construction photos \| October 22nd Source: My Photo ( Vancouverite in SSC \| SFUVancouver in SSP ) Source: My Photo ( Vancouverite in SSC \| SFUVancouver in SSP ) Source: My Photo ( Vancouverite in SSC \| SFUVancouver in SSP ) Source: My Photo ( Vancouverite in SSC \| SFUVancouver in SSP ) I took these in the midst of a breathtaking, sudden fall sunset today and the light faded moments after I snapped the last photo. In order to start taking photos before I lost the light I ran from the bus stop, past the sales centre for the Olympic Village where I saw people camping out in line in order to buy the condos and townhouses and they don’t even go on sale for five more days. __________________ Vancouverite in SSC \| SFUVancouver in SSP Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Athlete's Village \| 1.4M sqft, LEED GOLD Vancouver \| Beautiful, Multicultural \| Canada's Pacific Metropolis

October 23rd, 2007, 08:15 AM	#19
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