Enzo | 27m | 6s | Arlington Street | DAAS

[Mountain Man]

Some of it can be horribly ugly and oppressive too, Boston City Hall is probably the worst brutalist building ever.

 

[Dubbs86]

Very happy with this one. Arlington's projects so far have turned out well which bodes well for Francesco's and also gives me some optimism that Sentinel won't end up looking so bad after all.

I sure hope you're correct about the Sentinal project, but I have my doubts. The DP has changed a couple times for the worse. They promised Nenshi that they wouldn't screw up the corner of 14 St & 17 Ave, and we're watching it happen! With all of the proposed development in this area, the Sentinal should be a benchmark for things to come. The current DP brutal boring imo

 

[UrbanWarrior]

Agreed on that one. The former CBE HQ is my favourite in the city though.

 

[jdixon]

Take a look at SFU. It's a good example of brutalism done well. I personally think the main differentiating factor is greenery, and the nice view certainly doesn't hurt. It's unfortunately rather hard to grow greenery that extensive in Calgary.

 

[UrbanWarrior]

 

[Surrealplaces]

Love those round brick corners.

 

[Garceyues]

Anyone know if move in has started for this build?

 

[UrbanWarrior]

The construction fencing is still up, so no move-ins yet.

 

[Calgcouver]

Not all brutalist architecture is ugly though. Probably my favourite is 404, 6th Ave built in 1970

Good urban design and an activated streetscape will do that. Cool building too

 

[CBBarnett]

Tompkins Park really should be discussed more locally - it's evolved into a stellar urban square place with true "big city" 24/7/365 activity and great development integration on all sides. Probably our best (only?) urban square-style park that's so completely integrated into a mixed use retail district with this level of perpetual activity. This development seems to be following the trend of a decade of others that all really competently added to the neighbourhood and quietly strengthen the overall vibe.

There's elements of Tomkins Park design I'd updated to allow better circulation (and of course, wider sidewalks everywhere), but it's top of a short list for me of local clusters doing it completely right with relatively little fanfare relative to other up-and-coming neighbourhoods in the past years.

All in a tight footprint - it's only 40 - 45m from the south curb of 16th Ave to the south curb on 17th Ave, included 2 roads and the park itself. Put that in perspective, Macleod Trail right-of-way is about 66m at Chinook Centre.

 

[shermanator]

I really like this building. There's density, but the portion of the building that interacts with the street level is more human scale.

 

[BKha]

I really like this one. Those rounded brick corners will never go out of style.

 

[DiscoStu]

The rounded brick looks great. My only real beef with this building is that I wish they just went brick on the whole facade. The cream sides and the hardy-board looking inserts cheapen the whole thing.

 

[CalgaryTiger]

a tight footprint

Why not widen it a little? Is 16th Ave really serving much of a purpose here? My fear is they go to redo this park and give it the Olympic Plaza treatment and cut down all the trees.

 

[Woosh]

Why not widen it a little? Is 16th Ave really serving much of a purpose here?

The hookah lounges would throw a fit if their customers had to walk more than 15 m from their uber to walk in.