Urban Development and Proposals Discussion

[The Familia]

I can’t remember any other time period where there has been this much demolition and “revitalizing ” in the city. Off the top of my head we have Olympic Plaza, Eau Clare Plaza, Eau Clare Market, Millennium Park, Transalta building, YWCA building, Lacey Court, the heritage building on first and 10th, the heritage apartment building where the Broward is, soon to be demolished Inglewood heritage building and blues can, all the old little building on 4th ave, the old Connaught buildings on 11th ave, and I’m sure there is more. Time will tell if the replacements and improvements to these places will be better or worse than the originals…

 

[Silence&Motion]

I'm usually relaxed about design levels, but for this one being on 11th ave, I think it needs to be better.

Also, I can't tell for sure, but are those grass patches in the front?
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Is there no active frontage going into this building? Isn't this stretch of 11 Ave supposed to be the "Design District" and also the remnant of Electric Avenue? This project would probably single-handedly strangle any chance of this area to actually become a destination.

 

[FCC1982]

I can’t remember any other time period where there has been this much demolition and “revitalizing ” in the city. Off the top of my head we have Olympic Plaza, Eau Clare Plaza, Eau Clare Market, Millennium Park, Transalta building, YWCA building, Lacey Court, the heritage building on first and 10th, the heritage apartment building where the Broward is, soon to be demolished Inglewood heritage building and blues can, all the old little building on 4th ave, the old Connaught buildings on 11th ave, and I’m sure there is more. Time will tell if the replacements and improvements to these places will be better or worse than the originals…

Burns Stadium demo too

 

[Roaring Flames]

Add the airport west runway rehabilitation to that list too

 

[CalgaryTiger]

This will be great city when they're done with it.

 

[haltcatchfire]

I just hope I live long enough to see some of these random rectangle buildings being the ones demolished.

 

[outoftheice]

The Feds just dropped their housing catalogue. I'll be curious to learn how well their design choices function with Calgary's existing zoning and whether Admin and builders adopt the designs.

Federal government unveils designs as part of the Housing Design Catalogue - Canada.ca

Today, the federal government released the final renderings, floor plan layouts, and key building details as part of the Housing Design Catalogue, an initiative under Canada’s Housing Plan. The catalogue features some 50 standardized housing designs for rowhouses, fourplexes, sixplexes, and...

www.canada.ca

Some of the catalogue designs for Alberta:

 

[CalgaryTiger]

The Feds just dropped their housing catalogue. I'll be curious to learn how well their design choices function with Calgary's existing zoning and whether Admin and builders adopt the designs.

Federal government unveils designs as part of the Housing Design Catalogue - Canada.ca

Today, the federal government released the final renderings, floor plan layouts, and key building details as part of the Housing Design Catalogue, an initiative under Canada’s Housing Plan. The catalogue features some 50 standardized housing designs for rowhouses, fourplexes, sixplexes, and...

www.canada.ca

Some of the catalogue designs for Alberta:

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So these are for private developers to use? Or is this for a national home building program? I think it is the former.

 

[haltcatchfire]

Those are absolutely useless. You can't drop a universal design just anywhere.

 

[FCC1982]

Those 4-plexes - ooof

 

[Mountain Man]

So what's the point of these?

 

[haltcatchfire]

So what's the point of these?

To house all the returnees from World War III.

 

[boreal96]

The designs do look good.

 

[outoftheice]

So these are for private developers to use? Or is this for a national home building program? I think it is the former.

It's for private developer use. Essentially the idea is to save time and money for getting new infills approved which should open it up to more smaller builders. Future federal infrastructure funding for provinces is meant to be tied to provincial governments approving the designs. Some more info from catalogue...

 

[Mountain Man]

Interesting idea, wonder if we will see any go up...