Urb
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Developer is Ayrshire. Same group behind Brooklyn
Copenhagen | 35m | 10s | Copenhagen | Casola Koppe
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CalgaryTiger
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haltcatchfire
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This is on the land of the only cool design store left on that strip.
MichaelS
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CalgaryTiger
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Copenhagen it is not. Some design changes, that don't really have much to do with cost, could make it look like Aria Encore in UD. Instead it is Davenport House in Currie.
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Mountain Man
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Looks pretty generic, typical Calgary lol.
boreal96
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The black, white and beige trend needs to go
BigWoofer
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Quite awful. I share the desire for more units in the Beltline, but surely there's a better way to do it than this... It's so boring. I wonder why developers don't visually break up the facade to at least simulate the look of 2-3 smaller buildings, rather than one gigantic block.
cameronhowe
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I wish that they would just do something more minimal and warehouse-like, something resembling maxwell bates block. Just brick and glass would be perfect, especially for this location.
Albertasaurus
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Agreed! An all-brick warehouse style building would be perfect for this location. There's just too much going on here.
CBBarnett
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These boring designs are good ones to nit-pick materials and ground floor treatment. This random building in Chicago is approximately the same size and shape, but looks better due to bricks and a more urban ground floor.
Size is fine, big blocky buildings can be attractive. Just needs to focus on the materials and ground floor.
Panda_
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Tbf, I wouldn't describe that building as boring or simple. We probably cannot mimic this building without removing even the little amounts of ornamentation that exists, and turning it into a blank slate devoid of any beauty. Your point still stands however, it would look better than what is being proposed.
TheFlaneur
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DP drawings are posted:
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This type of meaningless architecture is destroying Calgary.
Lack of architectural design, compensated by changing materials on the same plane to pretend to give articulation to the building. This is a great example of what I call Paint By Number Architecture.
The building is basically a 10 storey wall with holes for balconies and change of colors to break the monolithic appearance.
Can't imagine what it will look like once it goes through VE...
Really disappointed that the City approves this!
It's not approved by the city yet.