Recent content by Platopos

Chinook station would honestly function incredibly well as a full blown TOD. Would be reminiscent of some of the TOD clusters along line 2 in Toronto.

It's basically the easiest/cheapest building that can be approved based on a common technicality of the fire codes in North America. 5 wooden floors and base concrete floor with the insinuation that if the fire code wasn't the way it was, all 6 floors would be wooden.

Not sure if I'm the first to mention this, but Google Maps has just updated their 3D renders of Calgary! Also I think the renders in general have gained a higher resolution. Proof:

And what was the view from your backyard before? The Hollywood Hills? Or was it perhaps the Grand Canyon?

What's a photo of Vancouver doing on here

Most LEDs are rated for tens of thousands of hours so years upon years of continuous use.

It's awesome that it's starting so soon. I thought it would be at least a year before the upgrade of the street level section take place.

Something about these photos makes it seem like all the people and machinery in the pit are miniatures. I guess it's the angle.

It's just the tip of the iceberg of what will hopefully soon be an extension of downtown spilling over the river. Interested to see what happens to the area when the green line starts construction.

Time to create another thread called "General deconstruction updates"

Didn't realize just how massive this is. And it's weird to think that just last time I was in Calgary(last summer), the site largely didn't have much on it.

We've got just the place to pick one out to replace this one

To show the clear class difference between the people who can afford the decent penthouse living and the so-so apartment living below lol

If those are the colors they're going to use, that's going to be a very lackluster tower portion, especially by East Village standards. The whole tower design looks quite bland, even though I'm sure everyone would be happy to see that parking lot filled in.

Are those renders or actual photos? Because Jesus, that's some sharp photography.