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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...

My point has been that they are not building anything and that they are banking on the existing office towers which they purchased for a bargain for their growth. An actual developer building anything on the FCC site during the next 25 years won't be building office. The investor residential...

No clue. Declining overall vacancy and positive absorption (the decline doesn't all have to come from positive absorption) will raise these deflated values.

Boom was the wrong choice of word. The purchase prices are so heavily devalued For FCC and BVS that a modest recovery with vacancies dropping to the mid to high teens would positively affect valuation. Armoyan is the majority stakeholder in Slate which is teetering on insolvency so he needs a...

I just can't see them building a 65 storey tower. This is just a flip betting on an office boom. They could buy several more major office towers for the cost to build a 65 storey tower.

I can't get passed vendors working for clients and not the other way around. There is just cause for large institutional clients to be a little skittish. A client such as Calgary presents opportunities for vendors that wouldn't exist for a MLSE funded development.

I've been thinking about this. A conventional concrete residential tower would require so many modifications to the parking structure that I can't see it being worth saving. A concrete core and steel structure (column free spaces) would require fewer modifications but, would be structurally...

Why bother having them play away during Monster Jam? They aren't much of a football team. They may preform better on the track

Are two levels of underground parking really enough for what is planned? If I recall correctly, it's two towers with around 1000 units An empty office building costs money. A weed lot costs less. (and there is that high rise contractor signage up)

Note the ITC sign if it hasn't been mentioned already.

The townhouse proposal is alright but, what is wrong with lower multi-family densities that allow for mature trees and gardens? I don't know if the motivation is sprawl which is low density however, the issues aren't because of low density. Higher densities won't change the isolation and how...

Only as a legacy build as part of an international event and partnered with 7 Nations for Federal dollars. I don't think you can build one for under $400 million and that doesn't make any sense.