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That makes sense, especially given that many universities do have large stocks of faculty housing for these very reasons. I guess my initial shock was just how centrally located and ostentatious this particular design was. The closest existing example I can find is the Norman MacKenzie House at...

Interesting: https://asc.ucalgary.ca/building/presidents-residence/ It boggles the mind to think that U of C would have considered building a large, elaborate mansion on campus as a residence for the president. People are still grumbling about Elizabeth Cannon renovating the executive offices a...

It still amazes me to see all her leadership rivals falling into line despite the fact that they were literally saying this bill would be a disaster a few months ago. Even Kenney slunk into retirement rather than vote against the bill that he repeatedly denounced during the leadership race. I...

Why on earth didn't it occur to anyone to build the main amenities next to the train station?

This is more along the lines of my thinking as well. I know many of the classic brutalist buildings do have precast elements, but I always thought concrete cast in situ needed to be a major part of the look. And the structural concrete needed to be a core part of the building's outer aesthetic...

Okay, I'll admit that most of these are pseudo-Brutalist buildings (or Brutalism-inspired), but I'm putting my foot down when it comes to Haskayne. At least if you're talking about Scurfield Hall. That's definitely closer to 1980s PoMo than 1950s/60s brutalism.

Are those technically brutalisim? I certainly wouldn't place them within the same genre as the Arthur Erickson buildings in Simon Fraser. U of C's campus just seems like mostly generic late-60s/70s-era precast concrete architecture. My main point being, I think comparing U of C to Simon Fraser...

It still drives me crazy how wide and car-centric the street design is in this neighbourhood. This was probably the best opportunity to implement a truly pedestrian-centred design with curb extensions, elevated crosswalks, narrower lanes, etc. and the City blew it.

Does U of C actually have any brutalist buildings?

That makes some sense. Nonetheless, the fact that Smith eked out a slim majority after 6 ballots, shows that had Travis Toews or someone else simply tired to create more fear around Smith, they might have moved a sufficient number of votes to tip the balance. I should also note that the...

Someone on Twitter dug up a 2021 article and accompanying July 2022 interview in which Danielle Smith lays out her vision to move Albertans off a public healthcare system. She talks about wanting people to fundraise money for their own medical care and denounces AHS for making decisions about...

Yes. This is how conservatives think.

The road expansions around LRT stations boils my blood.

Ah yes. Let's abandon mass transit development and just embrace a completely car-oriented city with ever worsening gridlock because... gotta keep our already low taxes even lower.

No chance that Smith was going to lose this riding. Getting more than 50% means she avoids total embarrassment of losing the majority to an NDP-AP vote split in her hand-picked riding. It gives her a chance to boast about beating the NDP by 28 points and throwing around terms like "blow out" and...

If you just have a deep loathing for public sector unions and a religious devotion to debt repayment, then you're a conservative through and through. You'll just have to accept that your political tribe is now run by people who wear tinfoil hats and who are primarily interested in virtue...

Just looking at the historical maps, it appears there used to be a building there up until sometime between 1982 and 1984. It appears to have been built some time between the 1920s and '40s. The building across the street that was just demolished had also been there for a long time.

You don’t even need to go to past interviews and tweets! She’s still doubling down on all this stuff! Just the other day one of the fringe candidates in the byelection started praising all the wacko antivax conspiracy theorists, and Smith followed up by promising to bring one of them in to...

I wonder where they got that rating from. I thought JB was widely considered the most reliable pollster in the province.

In some ways, the comparison between Toronto's suburbs and Calgary's suburbs doesn't work. If you live in Airdrie, you still have a lot of what makes life so great in Calgary (access to the mountains, lower property values, better traffic, etc.). Most of what makes Toronto a great place to live...