Nimbus
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C'mon Truman!Dear Lord - please keep this away from Strategic...
C'mon Truman!Dear Lord - please keep this away from Strategic...
I hope Truman doesn't take more on in the short term. It's great they're doing so much but scale also means if something happens with the slowing market, a decent portion of the city's highrises would stall.C'mon Truman!
Fantasy thinking, but the Alberta University of the Arts would be a potential great fit.Part of me thinks this building might be better in the ownership of a public institution. Too bad UofC found its new School of Architecture.
Being in such close proximity to Arts Commons and various museums, it would be a perfect location for a downtown AUA campus.Part of me thinks this building might be better in the ownership of a public institution. Too bad UofC found its new School of Architecture.
It would be pretty cool. The only concern might be the square footage, as the current location and the Bay building are both around 300K, but it wouldn't leave room for expansion. There's always a possibility the university could expand into the buildings next to the Bay building, or upwards a couple of floors? If going into the Bay building it would be nice to have an atrium built in to allow some good natural light.Fantasy thinking, but the Alberta University of the Arts would be a potential great fit.
I think that is a fair perspective. Don't want an even more prominent Barron Building issue with this one.This one, no matter what is going to be very expensive. That building has been falling apart for awhile. I think it will take a public institution taking it over to do it right, I just don't trust a private developer, and honestly I know a public institution will probably take 15 years to do anything but it should at least be done right.
It would be pretty cool. The only concern might be the square footage, as the current location and the Bay building are both around 300K, but it wouldn't leave room for expansion. There's always a possibility the university could expand into the buildings next to the Bay building, or upwards a couple of floors? If going into the Bay building it would be nice to have an atrium built in to allow some good natural light.
It would be very cool though.
Snippets were posted in this thread or another one, but I don't think we had official confirmation of the location then. The sentiment around that was nice build but a little too dense for the lot, and will probably be one of those phase 1 is twin towers, and the other two are never built. Pretty sure the BLVD it faces is one of those, where a phase 3 is a mini parkette.I don't know if this has been posted yet but here's a proposal from Mckinley Studios from their instagram that will go on the cowboys/BMO parking.
"A first look at a bold concept for a four-tower mixed-use development centered around a vibrant, community-driven plaza"
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