Meredith at Edmonton Trail | 14.63m | 4s | Gravity Architecture

[CBBarnett]

Super weird development - seems to both be random but also with a lot of effort and intention compared to many other projects. It's trying very hard to be something but I don't quite get what.

 

[Alex_YYC]

 

[haltcatchfire]

Oh sweet! We’re getting a Lego store in Bridgeland?

 

[Ramsayite]

This is kind of awful overall... Like, what is it all for?

 

[CalgaryTiger]

You just don't know art man!

 

[Cowtown]

I don’t have an issue with the coloured squares on the wall. Because they can’t put windows there, there’s not much else to do with the wall. They could continue with the metal panels, but that would be a lot of expense for nothing.

 

[potatopizzafan]

I have a fuzzy feeling this building was initiated, planned and designed by a table of bros discussing "buisness plans" with a large plate of cocaine

 

[Alex_YYC]

 

[Alex_YYC]

 

[Alex_YYC]

 

[Golfing guy]

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Like how the building turned out. Except the mural on the back combo with the hideous green marble on the building beside it

 

[DiscoStu]

It's a bit odd and has a dated 90s quality with that green/gold combo, but I've always been a fan of that marble building. Not a fan of the graffiti ramp thing they have going on though.

Btw, how insanely expensive would a marble facade be today???

 

[CalgaryTiger]

I'm on an island here. But I like the back of the building and the green marble. I don't like the beige and white mix on the front. Choose one or the other.

 

[Surrealplaces]

I like the green marble but don't like the windows. Change out those windows and it would improve quickly.

Something basic in this style.

 

[DiscoStu]

Those are very nice and all, but don't we have enough cold boxy modernism? One of the reasons I've always liked this building is the PoMo-ness of it all, and to me the arched windows are an essential part of that. Plus they pair well with the rounded corner of the building.

Yeah, it's weird and gaudy, but I think that's what makes this building interesting. I fear that one day it will get bulldozed and replaced with...another Meredith.

I do miss the big Eisenberg's sign.