UrbanRED
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I was looking at that block yesterday on my walk home and wondering if something would happen with that site. Of course, I look at every parking lot and decrepit building and wonder if anything will happen to them.
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I was looking at that block yesterday on my walk home and wondering if something would happen with that site. Of course, I look at every parking lot and decrepit building and wonder if anything will happen to them.
FCC1982
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^^Great news !!
Thanks for making my day before I call it a night.
Thanks for making my day before I call it a night.
Cowtown
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Glad to see it still in action somewhere, but I agree with @Silence&Motion, it doesn't really suit the building. I'm not sure what would be a better spot though. A park is what comes to mind first, but it's not safe enough for kids.
Oddball
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Here's another case where an "I agree with you, but I don't like what you're saying." button would be great. Cause you're right and I don't like it.
You really nailed it here. There was definitely an opportunity for it to be so much more. It should be climbing down the side of the building, not waiting crippled for a giant bird to pick it off.
(mind wanders to some sort of Godzilla sized Truck-a-saurus-Eagle)
Silence&Motion
Senior Member
For comparison, this is what it originally looked like:
Ideally, it should have been installed at street level at a prominent corner within the neighborhood. Or, it could have at least gone on the corner of the property.
On the roof, the main vibe I get is one of those "wacky" family restaurants from the 1990s.
Ideally, it should have been installed at street level at a prominent corner within the neighborhood. Or, it could have at least gone on the corner of the property.
On the roof, the main vibe I get is one of those "wacky" family restaurants from the 1990s.
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It would also fit in an empty plaza somewhere, where there isn't a Wonderland type sculpture to save the plaza. Paint it chrome and put it in that new park at the west end of the Beltline.
The Familia
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Well that is a terrible downgrade. They were better off sending it to the scrap heap than “refurbishing” it to this state.
O-tac
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I agree the reincarnated spider bug isn’t perfect. The legs being chopped off steals some life from it and I find the support stand really ugly and intrusive looking. I’m not sure how it supported itself perfectly without a stand before but it needs one now?
That said I am so relieved that it didn’t just end up in a scrap heap that I’m willing to overlook its imperfections if it means preserving a living memory of the area for future generations to enjoy.
That said I am so relieved that it didn’t just end up in a scrap heap that I’m willing to overlook its imperfections if it means preserving a living memory of the area for future generations to enjoy.
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O-tac
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Does anyone know what the construction going on south of the calf robe bridge in the river is?
jdixon
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That would be construction for upgrades to the Bonnybrook wastewater treatment plant.
O-tac
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Thanks. Like pipe capacity?
AJX
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O-tac
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So south if the bridge would be the outfall relocation then?
jdixon
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DougB
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The new outfall was already under construction when I was in Calgary early in the summer. There is a cofferdam extending from the west/south bank, just south of the Calf Rope bridge.