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Anyone know if the Sam Centre will be a paid admission venue or is it designed more as a free drop-in type space? It would be interesting to check out but not sure if I care enough about the history of the Stampede to pay

Does anyone have a full summary of what was passed yesterday together with all the amendments? We're getting blanket rezoning but I think there was also some stuff about changing parking minimums, public engagement and parks?

These signs have popped up around Olympic Plaza today. The QR code leads to the following website asking people to complete a survey on plaza design. Design reveal will be early 2025 apparently. https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/7791617/Olympic-Plaza-Transformation

Farewell party for Eau Claire tomorrow before demolition begins...

Top floor almost fully framed...

Sounds like some of the Event Centre designs will be revealed at the Event Centre Committee meeting on Monday and then again at CPC on Wednesday. Be curious to see if any of them leak out.

Is anyone with amazing skills able to take the DP footprint of the Arts Common expansion and overlay it onto a satellite image of Olympic Plaza? I get the sense that it looks bad on paper but in reality it is probably just occupying the space currently taken up by the benches and greenspace...

Public art piece at BMO is finished...

Count me as part of the water feature crowd. Whether it would be a stand-alone fountain or incorporating water into this sculpture design, it would have been a massive upgrade. My two biggest concerns with the Olympic Plaza redesign is that we are going to lose the fountains and the skating rink...

Be curious to see how quickly this gets assembled!

This is from the CMLC's website on the project and you are right, it does seem to preserve some of the park's maintenance space on the NW corner for some reason. Seems like an odd missed opportunity unless that is somehow loading docks or something?

@Surrealplaces are we able to get the two active Arts Commons threads merged together?

From the architect on the CMLC page... “The expansion building’s curved form, exterior cladding, and interior finishes are inspired by Alberta’s dramatic landscapes and the regional lodge typologies,” continued Bridgman. Okay so me thinking it looks like a dressed up community hall annex isn't...

I'll be the first to say it, very underwhelmed. Looks like a community centre annex building that someone tried to class up. Extra disappointing given this will probably inform the design for the main building. Nothing about this to me says signature theatre space.