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I assume this was done for the Olympics?

I'm not sure if there's already a form for this project (or how to create one), but the land use was just approved for this site on the...

Here's a slide from council today showing a glimpse of how the renovation of the existing building might be organized.

Looks like it's going to be spandrel/mullion city. Also not a huge fan of red/pink with architecture. But at least the podium is decent.

We have some official heights. They'll be released to the public shortly. taller tower - 70 storeys, 277.3 metres/909' shorter tower -...

To be fair, when Calgary and Edmonton built their LRT systems in the early '80s, the population of both cities was some 500-600,000...

The good old Can-Do Calgary attitude. Got us the Olympics too.

Edmonton also was much more fiscally conservative in the 80s and 90s than Calgary, and ended up with much less stuff as a result. Pools...

The reason they didn’t do subway initially was to get more line built. I believe it’s one of the reasons are lines are so successful is...

Very true. Ottawa-Gatineau in particular has been growing slowest out of the 6 big cities over the past few years, and I expect that to...

It makes you think, between the tower construction, increasing population (statscan thread), and some of the economic things happening...

Just a question to you since you seem to be one who lives in that area. Was there the same outburst and objection to all the infills...

I don't know if you can do 6th Ave. that would take 8th, 7th and 6th out of commission to cars. Would be quite something to see how that...

I am surprised at the lack of opposition according to my wife's reporting on the local facebook outrage at the project there is...