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That's the only thing I can think of as the rationale for such a bizarre design, but this one really got away from them. A mixing zone makes sense on the river pathway where there's subtle cues that cyclists and pedestrians should expect some mixing, but these are controlled intersections in a...

Such a weird project, helping 34th Ave turn ever further towards being a weird street. It's been interesting to watch all the Leonard group projects combine a strange interest in preserving nice (but historically unremarkable) house facades with a weird small-format retail component bolted onto...

The 5th Street and 15th Avenue intersection version of this is mostly complete and is pretty wild. I really don't get why they couldn't keep the cycling facility at street level instead of raising it up to a weird, tiny mixing zone. 5th and 12th Avenue SW have had the level crossing for a...

I think we are going to need a source on this one, the stakes are too high! 🍺

While this proposal is not a dramatically large development, for many it might be an important one to watch for the cultural impact. The land use change for the building the Ship and Anchor is in goes to CPC this week: LOC2025-0080 532 17 AV SW 534 17 AV SW (The Ship and Anchor)...

That's quite the dramatic retail bay on 17th Ave for this one - it's fairly large and double-height. I wonder what they are imagining will be a tenant in there?

From a proximity to stuff perspective it really is an unbeatable location. Free fare zone LRT + anywhere NW like Kensington, SAIT or U of C is only 15 minutes away by transit. Plus all the local retail/restaurants and everything the Beltline can offer only a couple blocks away down 8th. Finally...

I may be revealing my generation, but the correct answer for any of these infill 6 storey apartment retail blocks is: a daycare a cafe that turns into a bar at night with wood accents and low-wattage lightbulbs. a Shoppers Drug Mart And just copy and paste, we need the above mix every 500m to...

From the article: I get that it's 2025 and hyper-partisan hyperbole is the name of the game.... but we need to remember that we are talking about things like the minutiae of townhome development processes and if utility rates to have drinking water increase a bit above or below inflation...

I am more curious what happens if/when the elevated line also comes in over-budget and delayed. Again, all we have really seen is the test-fit concept plan, nothing detailed with costing attached. With some of the more provincially-aligned candidates somewhat indifferent on if the line ends in...

Your are right - that's probably why the focus on Heritage, it's a tactical decision based on existing conditions but it's also pretty short-sighted. The same avoidance of congestion logic didn't seem to apply to road capacity investments - when traffic got worse in the 2000s in the area, we...

The traditional 3 to 4 storey walkups of Montreal do a few other things right by having so many of them be zero-lot line and with limited (useless) setbacks in most places. The result is just a much more efficient density, that's higher but not necessarily taller or more oppressive feeling...

This one will be great - boring, functional high density urbanism. Doesn't need to be sexy, just needs some scale to kick-start a market for apartments in this area. This is a perfect project to do so as a kick-start. Eventually I want to see Calgary Transit reverse it's trends of...

Housing supply is a cumulative exercise because even at very fast growth rates most houses already exist. Montreal doesn't build a ton of low-rise anymore, but they also don't have much land left and the economics that produced their plex system of small apartment blocks has changed dramatically...

Heritage has got to be one of the wilder bus loop designs we have - it's clearly been reorganized a few times and and has lost a ton of it's coherence about what is going on, at least visually. I had to look up the map to guess what all the loops and roads were supposed to be for: That whole...

It's all debatable, but underground is probably the best option on most dimensions apart from cost, but its outrageously expensive so trade-offs are required. Elevated makes sense in this context and gives many of the same benefit at an expected lower cost. Of course, "expected lower cost" is...

It's a tricky one - at crux of the problem, CAs and communities are simply too small to be effective at representative decision-making on most issues. 90% of communities do not have enough population to generate enough volunteers to have a self-sustaining infrastructure and consensus building...

Puts modern era 12 storey proposal in Bankview or a 19 storey proposal in Marda Loop into perspective for sure.

I find it interesting when a developer really centralizes their efforts to a single corridor or area to legitimately try to change it. Kind of makes sense so they can benefit from their cumulative investment and understanding of the hyper-local market. There's probably others, but it seems like...

Perhaps I have forgotten just because the renovation has been going on for so long - is there any numbers or metrics about what the key differences between the previous Glenbow and the new one are? I recall discussion on how the renovation is opening things up and creating new exhibition space...