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Seems like the design consultant used the Stroget as inspiration for the design for Stephen Ave. Stroget in Copenhagen relies on great architecture of the buildings around it to have a minimalist streetscape design. Stephen Ave requires more landscaping to distract from boring architecture IMO.

I think they mostly died

I like this a lot actually. Nice balconies for all unit, a different colour palette from the charcoal and white and looks to be brick. Only bummer is I had heard Western Securities had a parcel down 1 St SW and was under the impression it was this lot: Does anyone know who owns this lot?

I was being hyperbolic, i'm aware of the difference between a freeway and a stroad with very oversized lanes. That said, if you have the same amount of vehicular throughput lanes and the designed width of the lanes is the same width as most sections of Deerfoot Trail, I would say that yes the...

I just don’t think we need 4 oversized one way freeways through the downtown (4th, 5th, 6th and 9th). Repurposing most of the 6 Ave ROW to serve LRT and bus lines seems reasonable to me and I would imagine it would reduce a lot of the bottle necks we see with capacity on 7 Ave currently. We have...

Underground on 8th Ave would be expensive AF, water table is high tons of possible cost over runs. Just re route the blue line at-grade to connect with itself on 6 Ave and leave 7 Ave for the Red Line. Leave 8 Ave as currently designed. Just an opinion

Man this is where I have trouble. I drive a pretty low car and I’m totally for raised intersections to slow traffic, but they have to be actually constructed as being gradual changes and not shelves to high centre a car on. I angle my car if I need to but some are so poorly constructed. My...

Truman seems to be leaning towards getting primed Hardie panels and EasyTrim and painting onsite like they did at 1905 College. Good chance that is what they are doing here.

This building rules. Sick brick detailing, has a mews and interacts with the river correctly. good urban design in every way i love it. For a builder and company out of Winnipeg, they just turned out one of the best projects in the city by far. Patios will probably be great. So far, attention to...

Very nice design! Only thing i would personally change is tight the driveway aisle up to 6.1m instead of 7.2m to add more landscape area to the fronts of the buildings, or to add a bit of landscaping relief on the backsides of the building. Really love the elevations on these.

Looks good, but the brick colours are a bit cold and the base doesnt seem inviting enough. Its so monotone on the tower portions that something to warm up the base would help. I would suggest that the beige brick sections go to Sea Gray 6 (Interstate Brick) from I-XL. The charcoal brick would...

I see what you mean. I wish that buildings would be responsive to historical trends on entry design from nearby buildings. An angled, recessed entry was common and would be cool to see more of. This design is kind of doing that with the lower brick columns, but only somewhat. Here is what im...

Agreed this turned out great. As i have said a lot i hate Hardie Panel and EZ Trim, but just getting the primed materials and painting it on-site made those sections of building look far better.

Ugh fix Macleod as each development happens. Great building but a terrible sidewalk with no street trees and just no thought from the City on designing a hospitable public realm for those on foot.

I heard about this one a couple months ago ago it’s Brad Lamb. If the design stays brick this is awesome. And agreed on the excessive surface parking, it’s probably cheaper to pave above the Parkade than to waterproof it and add soil depth for landscaping and they prob want excess parking for...

Dang that makes sense. Maybe a curtain wall system with a look more similar to this: Something like this could suffice too: Either way, wishing Dream success on this one and hoping to see it turn out great

Ok Dream, it’s really easy to execute this one. Only replace the windows, nothing else. Replace the windows with Duxton Windows Fixed and Euro Tilt and Turn models, and if the tilt and turn isn’t in the budget Casement will do. The windows need to be in the Bronze colour for all of them, don’t...

Having spent a reasonable amount of time in Denmark and particularly Copenhagen, I would say that Denmark is mostly socially liberal and permissive as you can see with places like Freetown, Christiania. However, in the same vain I would say that Danes are culturally protective and require people...

Well you know what they say, Towers and surface parking, truly a match made in heaven. The execution on the landscaping of the first phase of the project was absolutely gorgeous, they can definitely build on the success of that project. The attention to detail in the execution of architecture...

This is just my opinion, but I think some of the issue comes from many of the 'modern' styles using materials and designs that lack any basis in proportions or good design from the past. And a lot of the modern materials really degrade the look. Vernacular architecture and having a building that...