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Rail transit is an amenity. That's it. A community with a 560 unit housing complex contained in one block should be one in which you don't have to leave it for play and work. Canada is building vertical subdivisions with 50 storey clusters with minimum spacing and mixed usage with rapid...

The palette provides visual separating between tower and podium. Is it that much more to build a tower and a separate mid rise? It's undeniably Truman with a design pushing, awkward looking tower. Unlike other Truman developments, the cladding quality is not as clear.

The rendered towers are a less impressive Beltline Block and the podium is a snooze. Points to realistic renderings however, they highlight all the spandrel glass filler in the podium

One can dream instead of the typical response that it adds density which doesn't give too much concern to the future occupants here and how they will move about the majority of the time. Of course, initially they will drive and that's exactly how these towers were designed. No initiative put...

A few tweaks here and there you could have something that could lead to Griffintown. Instead the developer, a major national brand, doesn't seem to care about creating something better than the status quo which will only encourage other property owners not to care. IMHO, TOD should have a...

This is not encouraging for future development. It presents a hostile, ugly pedestrian environment. What a great transit oriented community this will be with 20 more slabs on parking garages. Taken straight out of Communist Ottawa

Curtainwall hangs of the edge of the slab while window wall is secured between the slabs. You get better a better seal with more space for insulation at the slab edge with curtainwall. More important is the most common curtainwall used is structural silicone glazed (SSG) curtainwall in which...

https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/attachments/img_2374-jpeg.503868/ Hospital in Toronto. Truman does curtainwall.

Nothing like this exists in Calgary. It does exist elsewhere in Canada and, for the most part, again, they never live up to expectations. They end housing for the poor. This proposal is too obvious investor driven bland, over intensification. Tall towers on cramped large podiums. Not much hope...

Giant rec centres or schools are par for the course everywhere. The advantages are fewer but larger facilities can house more specialized options and amenities than multiple smaller venues for the same costs. The disadvantages are accessibility. They're not within walking distance for the...

A structure similar to a commercial tower with a concrete core is arguably a lot more expensive and the column free spaces aren't needed for residential. There's a matter if the existing foundation is built to support two point skyscrapers. A transfer slab between the residential structure and...

It's the same square footage as the 18 units with 90 total bedrooms. Now, it's 90 units. 500 sq ft per unit feels too much. I'm envisioning 250 to 300 square foot studios

I wonder if this is still pre-fab concrete panel construction? I don't remember a basement. I could be remember incorrectly too.

How tiny are these units to go from 90 bedrooms in 18 units to 90 units? Shared living areas? The balcony would be bigger than one of units.

More important is the urban form of a building and within the context of the broader neighbourhood and the broader neighbourhood's provisions itself. However, aesthetics do matter in attracting dollars from outside of the neighbourhood and outside of Calgary. Critical mass hasn't been...