Search results

This is an important gap to fill. 11th St has potential to be a nice street one day.

You can't go wrong with floor to ceiling glass. #hidenothing

The craziest part of that photo is how there is still a parking lot there in the foreground.

The more I live and commute and travel the more I think the future of streets is for people. Yes, transit and emergency vehicles and delivery trucks and uber and Lyft and taxis and private vehicles, but ESPECIALLY pedestrians and cyclists. I think we are going to realize that nearly every...

I actually think in order to get your driver's license you should have to bike in traffic so you know what it's like to be a cyclist. Everyone at the city should have to bike or take transit some of the time.

That neighbourhood has a lot of potential. Hopefully the young people who live there are able to overcome the crippling loneliness that comes with isolation. That was a joke. Seriously though, I hope we can find a way to iron out some of the bike paths and bus routes through the west campus...

Hubba hubba

Don't forget that if you cover half a lot with roof and pavement, in theory you've doubled the amount of precipitation to the remaining half. That fact combined with the ever-increasing resilience of invasive tree species has radically changed the ecological conditions in Calgary. Just look at...

The school of engineering could literally build a ramp due west of the stairs (still using the same infrastructure for road crossing) for essentially free with a bit of donated supplies and student labour. Call it a senior prank.

Those are some good ones, @Oddball . I'm a sucker for old fashioned bronze statues and war memorials. Those CBE ones were always a fave. Famous 5 too. I think Calgary does ...okay... for a city of its age, size, and vintage for public art. Most of it is corporate or institutional (as you might...

@Surrealplaces is right about the potential of station refurb. If every station had 4-corner, straight line (not sawtooth pedestrian bridges) connectivity at both ends of the station it could really save an unpleasant <200m walk in many cases and make certain destinations feel much closer to the...

Another win for the west beltline!

What a beautiful city!

Towers look ok, though a bit boring. That treatment of the riverfront is brutal. They need to reorient the first few floors.

I feel like a sloth complaining about morning noise. Sun's up means get on with your day I suppose. Damn, I'm lazy.

Great post. I 98% agree. My 2 reservations are (1) that setback provide room for tree canopy to develop, stormwater drainage, and might sometimes provide a nice street character (as they do in much of Toronto), and (2) that I personally believe that it is not strictly access but income...

I'm down to see a monster skyscraper, but honestly I don't think it will ever happen here. It has to do with wasting too much floorspace on elevators, requiring footprints larger than our blocks allow, having too much nearby land that's underutilized. If Calgary can produce a neighborhood with...

Calgary has an incredible skyline for it's population. Here's why I think that is: -massive corporate booms between 1980 and present day. This is the era of international style architecture (steel and concrete, glass curtain wall, floorspace! Floorspace! Floorspace!), and historically high...

I think the issue was that most of our institutions were created by the province (MRU, UofC, Foothills, PLC, Rockyview, etc) with little input from the city. The city's not blame free either - it's been a divided council representing a divided populous for decades, much of which did not care...

@Daveography great videos. You should make one as an endless loop that seamlessly starts and ends at the same place. I'd watch it for hours. Especially if it was playing on a TV in a corner in a bar.