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Who knew that starving key wealth creating sectors of capital investment and centering the economy on real estate development was a bad idea? The divergence between Canada and the US tells all you need to know. I think they might have had Covid over there too! I guess this is what happens when...

It's kinda cool but if anywhere in the city makes sense to have western equestrian sculptures it's Stampede Park. IMO something like this would be much cooler:

I'd love to see some retail at the base of this building and I imagine that's what the City was anticipating with the amount of concrete they've included on the sidewalk in front. That said, in my experience, when planners attempt to play developer/architect it leads to poor project outcomes...

The elevation on 17th looks nice. The back is a little weird.

Man this Locke guy seems like a real piece of work.

Unless they're doing it properly and using stone or pressed tin, those cornices are going to look god awful. You just know it's going to end up being stucco. 😪

This is well drawn set.

Can we please stop importing stupidity from US identity politics and academia into Canada? Pretty please?

So with this project we've essentially traded the poor 1980s era urban design of the Roundup Centre for equally poor urban design and a building that looks like it's from 2009. Setting aside the poor cladding material choice that requires a photo filter or favourable lighting conditions to look...

Haha, did they Photoshop out the yellow panels?

If those main floor units are commercial that is a terrible interface. This is okay but would look better without the cheeseball cornices and brackets.

I haven't seen many credible financial arguments against an APP - most of the criticism seems to be more political in nature and coming from people to don't know much about investing, finance, or pensions in general. At worst it would be a lateral move but most people I've talked to in the...

I think we'd get better ROI by focusing on the low hanging fruit that is filling in the many gaps in the bike network that exist in residential and office/retail areas before moving on to industrial areas. For example the bike paths they added to 42 Ave are nice but that's a case where that...

McDonald's at University District and the one at crack Mac's are also sans drive-thru.

Development engineers at the city are very inflexible on allowing any design that requires a garbage truck to back up onto a major street - this is 100% driving the site plan. They could easily push the moloks to the west side of the site and free up a massive patio area if there was...

The way the entire site is fenced off makes it look like they are prepping for demolition. Didn't see any signage indicating what's going on.

This is one of the best designed and executed mid-rise projects to go up in Calgary in recent years.

There are a few Khmer places in town but they all have either Thai or Viet menus with Cambodian dishes as well. Makes sense given the popularity of those cuisines. This place is legit: https://goo.gl/maps/hVqreh9XWawnnXiv9.

Lynx is actually great - can't say the same for Flair unfortunately.

We still haven't had anything that comes close to replacing Tantric Tuesday! (in terms of mid-week nightlife)