Albertasaurus
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I am hoping they start construction as soon as the debris from the demolition is cleared away, as happened with La Caille's new tower. Since they have good pre-sales, I am optimistic.
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JoeUrban
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Here's the commemoration that is part of the DP as per communication from the heritage planners
- A mural feature commemorating the significance of the Calgary Gas Co. Workshop from its associations with “The Backlot” business and Calgary’s LGBTQIA2S+ community, drawing inspiration from community consultation and feedback;
- A permanent at-grade pavement inlay feature showing an outline of the original location and extent of the Western (Underwood) Block and Calgary Gas Co. Workshop buildings;
- A standalone public realm feature incorporating information on the evaluated significance of the heritage resources, commemoration of Calgary’s former Second Chinatown created with community consultation and feedback, and wayfinding elements;
- Salvage, restoration and display of the central leaded glass transom window above the residential entrance to the Western (Underwood) Block;
- Salvage and re-use of historic sandstone from the Western (Underwood) Block as the primary construction material for the standalone public realm feature, and as a cladding element on the new development along the base of the main floor façade;
Mountain Man
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I'm sure none of that will even be visible or worthwhile without specifically seeking it out. E.A.P. had plans to honour the Penny Lane block it demolished, did they ever do anything? Can't say I've seen something that made me go "oh yeah, Penny Lane" I think this is stuff that looks great on a DP application, but rarely is of any significance.
JoeUrban
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Yeah the problem with most commemorations is you need to go into a lobby or something to see it. I think at least some of this will be public facing.
Thrillhou
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They saved a 3 foot long sandstone block with a sign above that talks about Penny Lane and some images. It's on the +15 level as you exit to the South. Completely forgettable.
Mountain Man
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The Chinatown thing is supposed to be off the lane right by the sidewalk. I'm sure it will get tagged and painted over within a couple weeks.
CT (Chinese_T)
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Bow south... They put the entire York Hotel facade in storage (God knows where it is now)
The Bow's parking structure goes under 6th ave and was originally supposed to connect directly with the south block. Rumor is that after scrapping the south block plan, they only engineered the parking structure to hold its own weight. Nothing can be built on top now unless they dig it up and start all over.
The Bow's parking structure goes under 6th ave and was originally supposed to connect directly with the south block. Rumor is that after scrapping the south block plan, they only engineered the parking structure to hold its own weight. Nothing can be built on top now unless they dig it up and start all over.
Mountain Man
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The city has a warehouse and yard full of old facades, cornices and other architecturally significant items. Not sure where it is or what state the stuff is in, would be interesting to walk through and see the history before they just send it all to the dump. Too bad there wasn't some way to make the developer guarantee phase 2 of the Bow would have happened or they lose the rights to the site or something, would be tough with the shared parkade in terms of strata... If ever there was a site to build a super luxury residential highrise downtown, this would be it....
Roaring Flames
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If they can't build anything there the least they could do is build a half decent park on the site. The one there is god awful.
Golfing guy
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This page has been hijacked. Thought there was some actual talk about this one starting up
CBBarnett
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Toronto's "facadism" has it's critics and downsides, but one thing they tend to do in some cases is set a rule that you can't actually move the facade during the demo and rebuild. So instead of a bunch of bricks ending up in a storage yard somewhere, you end up with this kind of thing until a building is constructed:
It's much more difficult for a development to escape a condition of heritage preservation/rebuild if it's right in your face like that. It's so easy to agree to a heritage restoration clause, get your permits, then phase things over 5 years and slowly have everyone lose sight of a key objective of keeping some heritage in the first place. Cry "market conditions have changed" then shirk on the original plan. By then it's too late - bricks are long gone somewhere else, everyone forgets and we have a sterilized half-block in the most central location in the city for decades to come.
Mountain Man
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I'd prefer they did that for heritage buildings here, except for oine thing. Calgary has the narrowest sidewalks of almost any city I've been in, especially with older buildings. If we kept the older buildings in place (or just the facade), then we wouldn't be able to maintain a proper setback.
CalgaryTiger
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There is no way they under-engineered the parkade on the Bow parkade's portion south of 6th.
Anyways, took the bus by Gallery First Tenth, there's a proper hole there now. This one looks to be going or they're removing the old foundation/basement.
Anyways, took the bus by Gallery First Tenth, there's a proper hole there now. This one looks to be going or they're removing the old foundation/basement.
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Mountain Man
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Not sure what you are trying to say with the first part there...
haltcatchfire
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Although, in contrast we have some of the widest roadways of almost any city I've been in, so there's room. Generally, it's not the setback from the property line that's the problem.