Glenbow Museum | 43m | 9s | DIALOG

[trtcttc]

Maybe related to the use of those buildings? Curtain walls would shine into an outer hallway, but the programmable areas would have controlled light levels. Just a thought...

That's true but many other facilities combine hallways/atrium on the exterior with natural light and the exhibit areas facing inwards. The Royal Alberta Museum and War Museum definitely have more natural light. Not all museums are like that but it's just interesting that many of our facilities are built with opaque exteriors.

With all the hail damage recently maybe that goes into factoring during design nowadays? Look at the airport and all the windows in Concourse B that were damaged. You’d think some of those designs in Calgary would be prone to damage/flooding.

That's possible, but buildings like the Municipal building, Brookfield, The Bow, seem to do fine in the hail.

 

[CalgaryTiger]

Does it have anything to do with efficiency, perhaps it is more efficient to heat a space that isn't curtain wall?

 

[Mountain Man]

Cladding definitely offers a far superior R value to glass. Also the cooling loads are reduced by not having solar heat gain.

I'm cool with cladding and funky roof lines, our downtown is full of glass boxes.

 

[UrbanWarrior]

 

[Mountain Man]

Need to do something with the base of the Marriott now, very bunkerish with the Glenbow improvements.

 

[thecivilengineer]

Whole area since Palliser one will also be under construction soon, perfect time to improve area around Calgary tower.

 

[UrbanWarrior]

Its wild to me that there still isn't a proposal to modernize the base of the tower. I know we looove some good Brutalism on here, but the stuff at the bottom of the tower is trash.

 

[outoftheice]

Wasn't that SE corner supposed to be glass on the renderings and not grey cladding?

 

[The Familia]

Look at the fly through video on P. 2 of this thread and see just how much has been value engineered. There were supposed to be little circular windows scattered amongst the waves that were removed. The windows and mesh screening that are currently along the top floor were never supposed to be there. Looks like a lot less glass than what was originally planned. We will have to see what happens with the NE corner and if they follow through with all the glass sections.