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Barclay Centre conversion

Modernized, affordable homes coming to downtown Calgary through new office-residential conversion

More Calgarians will soon be able to make their home in the heart of downtown through the latest office-residential conversion supported by our Downtown Calgary Development Incentive program. The project, owned by Dream Office REIT with Dream Unlimited Corp as development manager, is...

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[CalgaryTiger]

So tasteful with a window change and spandrel(?). I like it, don't love it though.

 

[Mountain Man]

Looks ok

 

[DiscoStu]

I prefer they would've kept the mid-century vibe here too...but it's going from fairly mediocre to fairly mediocre, so meh.

I still remember when they refaced that red/blue building next to it (late 90s/early 00s-ish). I wonder what it looked liked originally.

 

[CallmeCatbread]

They absolutely murdered it the whole rhythm and vibe of the facade is ruined with the introduction of the darker horizontal bands and removing the thinner dark brown vertical elements from the original. Big disappointment.

 

[FCC1982]

Yeah I agree, it looks worse, but not a total disaster.

So wish we had got McIntyre Plaza built on that block back in the ‘80s:

 

[Mountain Man]

That plaza / street level would have been a bit of a mess, makes me thing of what was done at Suncor along 6ave

 

[Surrealplaces]

If they keep the arches along the bottom of that Barclay proposal, it'll look interesting at the street level. It's a shame the windows had to change, but I guess we all knew that was coming.