Recent content by O-tac

Yeah Arlington Street isn't great either. At least Truman generally seems to value quality materials and design (aside from a horrendous lack of historical preservation).

It seems beyond greed or laziness and almost sheer arrogance. Like no respect whatsoever for what exists or came before their vision. I also fear the push of luxury unaffordable properties and Ontario investor condos. The urban fabric may suffer in the longterm.

And the Gresham Block and the strip at First and Tenth. I fear for what remaining historic stock we have with a developer as aggressive as Truman is. Hopefully they never acquire the old Bay building downtown.

Such a shame what was lost.

Irkutsk called and wants their design back. Damn. That thing is seriously ugly.

There actually is a ROW south of Market Street. If you look between the fire station and the red blue lego condos plus Randy O-Dell House you can see it just off Main street and Seton Drive. There’s also a field just beside the YMCA on the NW corner where a station is supposed to go:

My biggest complaint with infills is the lazy developers or new home buyers who knock down all of the mature trees. I drove through this section of Glengarry on the weekend and this side of the street lost most of the tree cover. You can even see where the old trees used to be moving along the...

What’s going there to replace the Legion?

The Plaza theatre was the coolest Art Deco element of the building. Also, there were some really neat details in the elevators (I seem to recall a monkey bas relief panel) that must have been lost in the interior demolition.

Kinda weird looking but better than the last version from what I recall. I wonder what the Macleod facing side looks like? That blank wall on the left corner is distracting and bland.

Calgary’s population has almost tripled since I was born.

I encourage you to read this whether you like the source.or not. Doctors from AHS giving personal accounts of being forced to serve private clinics. Anesthesiologists being prioritized for low risk surgeries like knee replacements and leading to backlogs for those receiving cancer treatments and...

I recently went to a concert and had a seat that was effectively 2/3 of a seat because it was on a corner and the one beside angled directly into mine

Meanwhile, the Globe and Mail just leaked that the UCP plans on making family doctors offer 2 streams of service (public and private for pay). Remember Danielle's promise that this wouldn't happen if we just voted for her? Nenshi just challenged her to call an election as a referendum on this...

The institutional buildings in Seton are top notch. Too bad the rest of the community isn't.