CalgaryTiger
Senior Member
The 10th Street side of this is... The same corrugated material on the one across 6th Ave. So maybe this square box will be not such a bad square box?
AHC 6th Ave | 25m | 6s | Attainable Homes Calgary | Hindle Architects
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Alex_YYC
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That building seems 90º off. The blank wall is facing the avenue, and the windows are facing the Chinese consulate next door?
Edit: At least it's the narrow side.
Edit: At least it's the narrow side.
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Mountain Man
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Yeah that's bad, no excuse for a blank wall facing a road. Hope they have the mural already planned out.
Nimbus
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Spy craft...
Stephen Ave
Active Member
The renderings show mural, not as exciting as some of the Beltline murals , but much better than the blank wall for sure.
potatopizzafan
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Looks like local boy Rhys Farrell and Alex Kwong are working on the mural today
O-tac
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I get the necessity for emergency affordable housing but this looks like a temporary workcamp structure from up north. The one across the street turned out great but this is just 
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darwink
Senior Member
If they keep improving at the rate from this one to the triangle site, they’ll be pretty nice soon.I get the necessity for emergency affordable housing but this looks like a temporary workcamp structure from up north. The one across the street turned out great but this is just
I’m expecting, or hoping that this will become a process that evolves to the point where the finished product can look like say a Catalyst or Harmony One.
Not brilliant works of architecture, but a case of function over form, but at a passable level.
Not brilliant works of architecture, but a case of function over form, but at a passable level.
CalgaryTiger
Senior Member
I so badly want modular apartment construction to work in Canada, I think it has great potential, but we need to do better than this. If this is a first step towards better design, then I'll take it for what it is but this cannot be the standard, we have to demand better or we risk being a failed modular state.
If we can build modular housing to look like the examples from Sweden, I think it would go over well.
Stephen Ave
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Those are sweet, yes lets build stuff like that.