West Village Towers | 149.95m | 42s | Cidex Group | NORR Dubai Yahya Jan

[Duck Lightning]

The towers honestly just look like of a couple of giant box cutters sticking pointy end up out of the ground.

 

[whatchyyc]

 

[jdixon]

Agreed
now we need a 250m job between Nexen & WVT

As much as I agree from a skyline perspective, first we need something/someone to fill up the Nexen building!

 

[Cowtown]

from:https://www.facebook.com/rob.chapman.9849/?show_switched_toast=0&show_podcast_settings=0

 

[1875]

poor trees, probably all be dead by the weekend

 

[Travisty]

poor trees, probably all be dead by the weekend

from the heat wave or the podium?

 

[Mountain Man]

It's the negative energy from that oppressive and ominous podium. For sure.

 

[JonnyCanuck]

Man, that is one fugly piece of architecture. Somebody must have thought that the trees, once full grown, would cover it up. They would have been better to wait and plant them in the fall and give them a better chance of survival.

 

[Alex_YYC]

 

[MichaelS]

Man, that is one fugly piece of architecture. Somebody must have thought that the trees, once full grown, would cover it up. They would have been better to wait and plant them in the fall and give them a better chance of survival.

I was thinking about the tree planting schedule the other day. Are the schedules on builds like this so defined (well, apart from the glazing on the towers for this one....) that the ability to look at the forecast and see the largest heat wave in Calgary's history would still not be able to delay the tree planting? Or, is the overall cost minor in comparison to the total project, that if Cidex has to replace a bunch of dead trees to get FAC, it won't be an issue to them?

It just seems wasteful, unless they are really on top of the care during this weather to ensure these new plantings survive.

 

[Mountain Man]

They have target dates for occupancy and completion, weather be damned.

 

[1875]

if they looked after them they would probably do well there with that unblocked southern exposure.

its in everyones best interest those trees flourish.

 

[haltcatchfire]

Some cacti would have seemed more appropriate.

 

[Mountain Man]

haha, or a corpse flower!

 

[CBBarnett]

if they looked after them they would probably do well there with that unblocked southern exposure.

its in everyones best interest those trees flourish.

Some cacti would have seemed more appropriate.

Local temperature would be like 90 degrees this week on that block. For a placemaking improvement, some pop-up elementary school science class solar-reflector hot dog cookers would be awesome but also would be an extreme fire hazard.

Broken record here, but this heat is once again highlighting our development planning and designs processes is at best inconsistent - and at worst not effective at all - at ensuring developments actually manage localized issues like heat, cold, wind, noise, local air pollution and pedestrian safety in the city centre. To me this is more critical failure than how the process allowed a subjectively ugly podium to exist here too.