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Surrealplaces said:
Any hints on what the buildings look like?
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Office (NW) is glass boxy, looks like a curtain wall. Has two different glass styles it looks like (north and south). First looks uber transparent, with a slight blue tinge and goes up two stories more, other is more green, with differently coloured glass "(slightly lighter than base glass) elements breaking up the glass façade. Imagine a putting two boxes together with one protruding higher than the other.

Residential towers are kind of a modified polygon, so not a straight box. Almost like a rhombus or something. Protruding balconies. Masonry townhouse at the base.
 
retrofiturbanism said:
Office (NW) is glass boxy, looks like a curtain wall. Has two different glass styles it looks like (north and south). First looks uber transparent, with a slight blue tinge and goes up two stories more, other is more green, with differently coloured glass "(slightly lighter than base glass) elements breaking up the glass façade. Imagine a putting two boxes together with one protruding higher than the other.

Residential towers are kind of a modified polygon, so not a straight box. Almost like a rhombus or something. Protruding balconies. Masonry townhouse at the base.
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Your description of the office building reminds me of the TCPL building downtown. I always felt that one was a neat idea but poorly executed. Hopefully this proposal pulls it off a bit better.
 
retrofiturbanism said:
Office (NW) is glass boxy, looks like a curtain wall. Has two different glass styles it looks like (north and south). First looks uber transparent, with a slight blue tinge and goes up two stories more, other is more green, with differently coloured glass "(slightly lighter than base glass) elements breaking up the glass façade. Imagine a putting two boxes together with one protruding higher than the other.

Residential towers are kind of a modified polygon, so not a straight box. Almost like a rhombus or something. Protruding balconies. Masonry townhouse at the base.
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Sounds solid. Either way this is a big win for East Village if it goes ahead. I think this will be enough to form the critical mass needed for the neighborhood if no other developments go ahead.
 
Conceptual renderings of new arena/entertainment district.

More info:
https://calgaryherald.com/news/loca...o-restart-partnership-discussions-with-flames

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https://twitter.com/JeffDavisonYYC/status/1048248618560311298
 

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Usually the concepts are a lot better than a place ends up getting... and that's not very good, so I'm not super hopeful.
 
It reminds me too much of the Ice District (cold and sterile) which I'm not a fan of. If there's a farmer's market going in, it might have some potential.
 
Surrealplaces said:
It reminds me too much of the Ice District (cold and sterile) which I'm not a fan of. If there's a farmer's market going in, it might have some potential.
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Along 12 ave, I agree that it's your typical arena, but along 14 ave, it looks like it'll be a lot more engaged with street, and may have business on the perimeter of the building.
 
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