PLATFORM | 21m | 6s | CMLC | Kasian

[The Familia]

LOL. What a waste of time, money, and resources. I'm assuming the developers are playing the long game (new arena and BMO center will increase demand), but for now they must be taking a bath on their investment. Too much parking in the East Village and surrounding area as it stands now.

 

[MichaelS]

You understand that the developers are us, the tax payer, right?

 

[gsunnyg]

I can't believe at one point, a part of me thought this would be a cool project. What a big giant L. Two 5 storey midrises would have been great in a location like this.

 

[1875]

or to have built a parking facility were it might be of some use if it was necessary to burn $75mm

 

[adamyyc]

I stand by my stance that if they had to spend $75M for parking, they should have buried it and built a park on the surface.

 

[UrbanWarrior]

^^^ or built it directly over the tracks as a long park sound-proofing a 2-block area of the hideous tracks.

 

[Silence&Motion]

I've come to the conclusion that, if you need to build a parking garage, your best bet is to design something that tries to blend in instead of trying to stand out. Producing beautiful buildings is hard enough even when you don't have to work around an inherently ugly function.

 

[ahuch]

I've come to the conclusion that, if you need to build a parking garage, your best bet is to design something that tries to blend in instead of trying to stand out. Producing beautiful buildings is hard enough even when you don't have to work around an inherently ugly function.

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Even Calgary has a few examples of much nicer looking ones.

 

[whatchyyc]

Google Maps

Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.

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Even Calgary has a few examples of much nicer looking ones.

I admit when I was younger I didn't even know Centennial was a parkade

 

[Chinese_T]

Google Maps

Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.

www.google.com

Even Calgary has a few examples of much nicer looking ones.

The SAIT parkade is beautiful.

 

[Stephen Ave]

I've come to the conclusion that, if you need to build a parking garage, your best bet is to design something that tries to blend in instead of trying to stand out. Producing beautiful buildings is hard enough even when you don't have to work around an inherently ugly function.

My favorite is still the Colors parkade.

 

[MissingMiddle]

Platform is just so dystopian, even more so when its completely empty.

 

[1875]

always easy spending other peoples money

 

[Surrealplaces]

My favorite is still the Colors parkade.

Colours' parkade turned out very well. Would be nice to see some more innovative designs like that.

 

[adamyyc]

My favorite is still the Colors parkade.

I generally don’t like parking in the podium, but Colors does a good job of hiding the parking structure.