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It's a six storey building. I swear some people have the weirdest hangups about "human scale" whatever the hell that even means

I actually didn't realize until now how massive the setback is above the first floor. God setbacks are such a plague. Especially on main streets. You just know some random complained about shadows and forced them to move the whole bloody thing back

No, you can't. Nothing good comes out of micromanaging the built environment like that. Limiting height near train stations just limits the number of people who get to live near train stations which is the exact opposite of what we want, particularly when there are so few options already. If...

It's a ridiculously complicated issue, but one I feel we really need to make more of an effort at addressing. UCLA Housing Voice podcast recently re-released an episode about "family friendly urbanism". Among the things they talked about were first how the concept of SFH being the only...

It would probably go faster (and the results would be better) if we would hurry up and to a total rebuild of the entire road from Anderson to downtown. The alternative is to let all this development happen and then like 15 years later realize "wow why are so many pedestrians dying on Macleod all...

Yeah the school complaint is the only one that has any merit, I think. Ideally we would plan schools more intelligently, but as has been discussed here, that's hard to do when you have to coordinate with different levels of government (particularly when those two governments seem to despise each...

Yeah the parking lot doesn't need a building put on it (though I wouldn't be opposed...). It's a great spot for a permanent court or some other landscaped amenity type thing

Woah! Those are cool

That corner is a great spot for a tower which could totally cover up that wall 😉

Pretty sure it's the people in the surrounding communities (which are pretty old) who are complaining. Doesn't make it any less pathetic.

Bosa is a big time developer who builds a ton (and usually builds high quality stuff). The fact that they're selling off basically everything they own in Calgary is slightly worrying. But maybe you're right and this will end up being a good thing

It doesn't have any random rectangles so I'm content. Hopefully vesta and lots of others like it get built nearby so it doesn't stick out so much.

Okay that is an absolutely insane idea And I'm so here for it. I desperately wish we could reuse the Saddledome

I also work in architecture. I'm just trying to push back against the common misconception that architects don't know how to do anything other than make stuff look pretty. As you're aware we have to not only produce a design and present it to a client and the public, making it presentable when...

It has nothing to do with engineers "adding some reality". Designs for complex buildings like museums go through dozens of iterations before they are built, and as the design is refined things change, often in response value engineering pressures. When renders for a project that's still in its...

There's nothing you can really do to improve the public realm of a bunch of empty dirt fields. We'll just have to hope that the rivers district actually happens and stuff gets built.

I honestly didn't realize it was temporary. Guess it makes sense given the site it's on. Certainly hope something like it is built elsewhere nearby

Oh yeah totally I didn't think of that. Will they do it (or anything)? I'm skeptical. Odds are that dinky little parking lot will remain a parking lot forever and the "Plaza" will just be blank concrete. But maybe I should be more optimistic.

Feels like southcentre is a good candidate for redevelopment in the relatively near future. Anderson TOD would probably have to happen first though in order to kick their butts in gear (and who knows when the hell that's happening 😒)

I had very high expectations for this development and I'm feeling they mostly delivered. The brick was a very obvious move and I'm so thrilled they're doing it (just hope the alu panels on the rest aren't too low quality. Obviously all brick would be great but fine whatever I guess brick is...