The Exchange | Harry Gugger Studio
Designed by Harry Gugger Studio, Surrounded by water and framed by mountains, the unique urban cityscape of Vancouver?s downtown is defined by its spectacular natural setting.
?The Exchange? is located in the heart of this downtown area. As one of a select few new, high density, office developments in the city?s central business district this new tower will bring valuable diversity, revenue and jobs to the neighbourhood and to the city as a whole.
The design rationale for the new ?Exchange? tower is entirely derived from its surrounding context and environment; in particular the existing Old Stock Exchange building, which is to be preserved and rehabilitated on the site. This refined, handsome and elegant building has facades of carefully composed vertical pilasters that are designed both to best accentuate its height and at the same time ground the building within the streetscape of the city.
The new tower does not attempt to dominate or compete with this prominent original building but rather to successfully work together with it in order to create an overall composition that looks at once to Vancouver?s future without obscuring its past.
By both breaking up the mass of the tower over its entire height and by recessing its bulk from the perimeter of the site above the Old Stock Exchange, the new building allows the existing structure to fully define the streetscape, retaining and confirming its proud position within the heart of Vancouver?s downtown.
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