Recent content by Chinook Arch

Except that Vancouver’s rail system in 1990 wasn’t anywhere near the level of Calgary’s today. It pales in comparison of ridership numbers (16M compared to Calgary’s current 90M) and was a third of the size of today's Calgary rail network. Vancouver has done very well since, but the metro pop...

Agreed, North Hill Mall is actually quite busy, especially on the west side of the mall. With the LRT station there and several bus stops there are a lot of people coming in and out, if they could tear down the Sears portion and put up some residential buildings, and refresh with some new...

IMO, this development has Deerfoot city beat just on the fact that it has residential on site. Deerfoot city is better than Deerfoot Mall, but not by much.

Very Canmorish. The retail and street level looks pretty solid for semi-suburban type development.

That would be great, but honestly, I don’t think this site will get built out. Definitely not too what they’re showing on the renderings. well, not in my lifetime anyway. Sadly, the area between Chinook LRT and Chinook mall would be a ripe for this kind of development and nothing’s happening...

100% on the dot. This forum has really opened my eyes into how much of a hassle it is for developers to build something in the intercity, or in any established area, Glenmore Landing, anyone? I mean, even Bridgeland, when they were developing ‘The Bridges’ which was nothing but empty lots for...

I’m getting a strong feeling that you’re in the tarp business 😉

I can imagine the architect talking to the developer.

The black material looks kind of cheap, but once it’s cleaned up it should look better. The brick and the corrugated aluminum look great though.

This is turning out better than I thought it would.

I agree 100% about not caring about the aesthetics of this building, what I don’t get is the hate on for someone driving a car. Was it necessary to label drivers as losers and douches to make your point? I drive over the flyover 2-3 times a week, so does that make me a loser, or the equivalent...

I thought I would start a thread to discuss form versus function. Reading through the threads in the buildings section it seems that there are two camps here at Skyrise, one camp who wants architectural, beauty, and another camp who wants function. Ultimately it would be nice to have both but it...

50 units is a lot for that size if parcel, a few more developments like this in intercity neighbourhoods and you can add a lot of people in a short time.

With this being backed by Royop, I have at least some confidence it’ll start up again, unlike the the one across the street, seemingly run by amateurs.

I saw that too a while back and was going to ask about it. Looks like decent infill, it’s too bad it wasn’t more regular living units but still.