General Construction Updates

[O-tac]

Sadly that doesn’t seem likely. Instead we’ll get some 80’s style mega monolith podium with generic Toronto investor condos plonked on top. I can’t understand this at all. It was rejected last time for being too dense and oppressive and for razing an entire block of heritage protected buildings. So their plan is to re-apply with an even bigger, more oppressive megastructure cramming 3 buildings so close together Hong Kongers would find it too dense?

It’s like a guy being rejected by a chick at the bar and coming back to use even more obnoxious pickup lines.

I wonder if there is some UCP backroom wink-wink nudge-nudge to their friends at Triovest that a new council packed with UCP muppets will approve it.

 

[CBBarnett]

What is the FAR of that? Seems very monolithic....

all of the FAR. If this is real, it looks like they density transferred all of the rest of the city to a single parcel

 

[adamyyc]

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Quick photoshop job (The angle and scale are definitely off, just to get a general sense of size for this thing...)

Isn’t there a view corridor protection for the Calgary Tower?

 

[Rollerstud98]

Isn’t there a view corridor protection for the Calgary Tower?

Well unless it spans over centre street should still have a view corridor.

 

[The Familia]

Good God that may be the worst proposal I have ever seen. This thing needs to die ASAP!

 

[Canadian 001]

The last one was a Monolith
This one is Gonna be tallest?

Stantec tower sweating now

 

[Nimbus]

Brother ewwww

 

[TooBizzy]

I'm not convinced that this is a bad proposal at all. Most of our Downtown's towers are more or less the same scale and blockiness. Bankers Hall fronts onto Stephen Ave and nobody complains about that?

I put together a quick scale model based on the drawings earlier in the thread, and checked out what it looks like in the skyline from all the iconic angles. Pretty great actually. Only loss is that Telus Sky wouldn't be visible from the South anymore, but if this building is interesting-looking enough it could make up for it.

North, East, and Southwest look pretty good on it!

 

[TooBizzy]

Happy to supply the model file to anyone who'd like to play around with it, maybe add some more detail, experiment with materials?

 

[TooBizzy]

Also... BIOCUBE ROOM?

 

[CT (Chinese_T)]

Happy to supply the model file to anyone who'd like to play around with it, maybe add some more detail, experiment with materials?

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Woah, nice model. The tower forms are interesting and could be cool to see from a lot of angles. Still really dislike the podium and 7th Ave treatment, as well as the heritage treatment (They couldn't find any other place to put this thing???). 282 meters means we are finally back in the big leagues. If this gets built, as well as Stampede Station, Vesta, Beltline Block, etc., Calgary's skyline will be quite the sight to see in the coming years.

 

[TooBizzy]

Just to really drive the point home... I struggle to see how this is anymore 'oppressive' on Stephen Ave's street feel than Bankers' Hall.

Funnily enough, this building is basically right at home, with widths that almost exactly match that of the surrounding Telus Sky, Brookfield, and other adjacent, older office towers.

Does Calgary want to be a world-class city or not? Let's get shovels in the ground on this thing.

 

[TooBizzy]

Still really dislike the podium and 7th Ave treatment, as well as the heritage treatment

Would be excited to see a more detailed floorplan on this. Hopefully the businesses on that block get to stay, and it's not just the facade being transferred over. Likewise, it would be great to utilize the space on 7th for small CRUs.
This project is definitely gonna be make-or-break on materials, but if it happens it'll be a couple thousand new residents injected right into the heart of Downtown. City-defining.

 

[O-tac]

Would be excited to see a more detailed floorplan on this. Hopefully the businesses on that block get to stay, and it's not just the facade being transferred over. Likewise, it would be great to utilize the space on 7th for small CRUs.
This project is definitely gonna be make-or-break on materials, but if it happens it'll be a couple thousand new residents injected right into the heart of Downtown. City-defining.

If it’s anything like the last one (which it appears to be) 7th will have zero heritage retention and probably no CRU’s or just a token one.

 

[O-tac]

Just to really drive the point home... I struggle to see how this is anymore 'oppressive' on Stephen Ave's street feel than Bankers' Hall.

Funnily enough, this building is basically right at home, with widths that almost exactly match that of the surrounding Telus Sky, Brookfield, and other adjacent, older office towers.

Does Calgary want to be a world-class city or not? Let's get shovels in the ground on this thing.

Thanks for doing this mockup. That looks insanely oppressive to me. The podium is a fortress plopped on top of our largest pedestrian street. Bankers Hall is set back a bit and retains much more of the structure of the heritage building, whereas this (from what I can tell from the drawings) is pure facadism with zero setback. From the first angle it completely blots out the sky.

Edit: Living in the South I love Telus Sky’s light shows. This monstrosity would completely block it from sight.