General Construction Updates

[Surrealplaces]

Hey, who invited Daemon?

Where's the mansion?

 

[1875]

haha, nothing like encouragement

 

[UrbanWarrior]

They covered that nice new roof at the Boxwood patio with sheet metal F*ckin Calgary.

 

[darwink]

E block again today; very quick progress on the additional level

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Rendering and info about this project:

 

[Calgcouver]

Was driving by this site on 16th ave last night and saw that the elevator shafts have been poured. Not big, but a nice bit of infill on 16th. Location is 208 16 Ave NE:
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new building — CIY | house of yoga

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Wow I really like this building! It is taking forever but looks great. Surprised it has windows on the side and isn't W2W.

 

[GoVertical]

I seriously hope this glass looks better at night. Lights were barely noticeable on an overcast day:

 

[GoVertical]

They covered that nice new roof at the Boxwood patio with sheet metal F*ckin Calgary.

 

[Surrealplaces]

I wonder if there is more to material to come for the roof? It does looks pretty industrial.

 

[Chinook Arch]

I wish they would put another restaurant or kiosk in the park, maybe the opposite corner.

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[darwink]

I wonder if there is more to material to come for the roof? It does looks pretty industrial.

Same or similar roofing as the existing building.m so probably not.

 

[garp]

...not sure what the fuss is over that roof, it matches the rest of the development, and it's not cheap...what would be the alternative?

 

[Mountain Man]

That roof looks finished, standing seam to match the restaurant. I'd prefer no roof and some sort of purgola personally...

 

[Zoom]

...not sure what the fuss is over that roof, it matches the rest of the development, and it's not cheap...what would be the alternative?

When the wood portion was being put together it built up some anticipation of something really cool. It's not bad with the metal roof, I had hopes it would be something special.

 

[Calgcouver]

This comes up a bunch. If so many people think this, yet it remains in the bylaw as a widening setback, what's the disconnect? A few options I could think of:

1. Who ever (a transportation planner somewhere I would imagine) controls the list of setbacks on inner city roads is actually still imagining expansion one day so won't give it up
2. No one "manages" the list of setbacks, so never really on the radar at a high enough level, with enough motivation to change
3. Some other unexpected problem emerged that even though every agrees the space is not need for a road, stormwater pipes (for example) aren't configured to anticipate less space so make it tricky to get rid of the set back.

There's a whole list of roads that get impacted by these setbacks, 14th Street and Edmonton Trail being fairly repeat offenders. Anyone involved with inside knowledge on how this works?

Good point, it is such a weird problem. Why these old setbacks for road expansion still influence anything is beyond me. If we had to pay attention to these on 9 Ave, we would have to build to these setbacks:

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[Alex_YYC]