The Kenten | 40m | 9s | Davignon Martin

[YourBoy007]

Exterior renovations and ADDITIONS to 120 10A ST NW. This is a prominent building and can be said to be on the gateway into Kensington. This is on Memorial Drive and 10 ST NW. It's where that Mexican restaurant used to be.
The LOC's and permit applications had me confused for a long time. Finally these have been released.

DMAP

 

[Surrealplaces]

Bye bye 80's, hello 2023.

 

[Surrealplaces]

 

[haltcatchfire]

Quite a bit of floor area being added to the upper levels. The work they’ve started must be for a show suite, but that exterior wall won’t exist in the final as they’re pushing out over the parkade.

 

[Cowtown]

This is a massive improvement over the current building.

 

[UrbanWarrior]

I am IN… so fxcking in for this. Bring on the intensification of riverside areas!

 

[adamyyc]

Looks like a lot of CRUs to fill. Big improvement!

 

[Chinook Arch]

This is great news.

 

[Scoots]

Looks like the parking entrance has been removed from the Memorial Dr. side and appears the the main floor has been converted to retail units as well?

 

[haltcatchfire]

Looks like the parking entrance has been removed from the Memorial Dr. side and appears the the main floor has been converted to retail units as well?

It's still there; that's possibly an overhead door in the rendering.

 

[Atticus]

The north side along Kensington Rd actually looks kinda 80's to me with the beige and dark brown/gray, but I'll take it. I would have gone with white and dark gray as the colors. It still looks better than the pink. The glass on the south side looks good

 

[cameronhowe]

Also, I wish that they would get rid of the clocktower.

 

[FriendlyDrunks]

Also, I wish that they would get rid of the clocktower.

Aww I love a clocktower

 

[adamyyc]

I think I’m on team no clock tower.

 

[CBBarnett]

I think I’m on team no clock tower.

I am on team let's have a clock tower but only if it's really big and makes people say "Kensington? That's the place with the unusually big clock tower, right? Man why did they ever build that thing, like it's really big...."

If it's just some cheap architecture flourish ... meh?