Residence Inn by Marriott | 127.10m | 36s | GWL | IBI Group

[Surrealplaces]

I like the podium, except for the west side where there is just too much of the stone. The rest of looks good.

 

[UrbanWarrior]

Though this would be a pretty funny update. Me (a 230 lb man) doing cartwheels with my friend's daughter haha. Such a fun day...

 

[Rollerstud98]

Nice form! I’ve taken some pictures from the very top of this one and will post them later when I get home from work. Good views all around when the smoke is cleared.

 

[Spring2008]

Adding a bit more density to central Beltline. I still love EAP - def in my top 3 for towers in Calgary.

 

[Surrealplaces]

Nice form! I’ve taken some pictures from the very top of this one and will post them later when I get home from work. Good views all around when the smoke is cleared.

That and Park Point have the best views I've seen around the Beltine. I'll be interested to see the view from The Royal once it's done.

 

[Rollerstud98]

And last one a view of the crane going up for 500 Block

 

[UrbanWarrior]

 

[outoftheice]

Really looking forward to seeing how this one interacts with the underpass at sidewalk level once the fencing comes down.

 

[kora]

September 1

 

[1875]

 

[UrbanWarrior]

Worst case scenario for the (lack of) underpass interaction?

 

[outoftheice]

Well that is a complete and total fail in terms of the interaction with the underpass. Agreed it's the worse case scenario and I'm actually shocked nobody at the city or on council objected to it when the plans were presented. What a wasted opportunity.

 

[bgarneau]

Well that is a complete and total fail in terms of the interaction with the underpass. Agreed it's the worse case scenario and I'm actually shocked nobody at the city or on council objected to it when the plans were presented. What a wasted opportunity.

Can you elaborate? Are you referring to how the building frontage is blocked off instead of integrated?

 

[luk_o]

Wow. So brutal.

 

[Calgcouver]

Worst case scenario for the (lack of) underpass interaction?

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Wow, was there never any comment related to this interface with the underpass at any point? That is like 1970s oversight bad, doesn't even pretend to activate or use the space, and completely strays from CPTED guidelines. If they wanted to do anything, they should have created some steps that opened up the space and used it, and committed to some softscaping and beautification of the space. The current final condition makes for a nice little spot to panhandle or take a piss, I guess. If they wanted to do some sort of treatment to the space, they could have used steps down to use the grade difference to their advantage (using Hive as an example of creating an active, public/private staircase, and adding any landscaping to break up all the grey. Even a little low budget mural and some landscaping treatment would be better than this. The City and the CA set a really shitty precedent with this, they should be requiring developers to do something to make the interactions of buildings with these underpasses at least a bit less shitty and to follow CPTED.

So basically a staircase sort of like this;

with low cost and resilient planting like this;