What's with Calgary's love for rusty art all over the place?

[peter12]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

How does he feel about how it turned out? My view is that if anything ever perfectly exemplified the phrase "sticks out like a sore thumb", that building is it.

He left early due to creative differences. I think the idea was to use the exterior trestle as kind of a hanging garden, which would have been very cool, but developers are cheap.

[Makarov]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

Not even the weirdest implementation of the dilapidated metal construction project thing; W tower downtown is just eugh...

I think its probably the best residential highrise built in Canada in the past decade.

[zamler]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Just these 2 foot high rusted metal marker pylons, often to the side, but sometimes right in the middle of the trails. When the grass grows long they can get covered.
Found a picture:

Yes those. I came across one that was not readily visible especially against the parched grass. I think they are incredibly dangerous a person or pet is going to run into one and do some serious damage.

[blueski]

Originally Posted by octothorp

Keep in mind that we're a lot dryer than most climates, and it's going to take a lot longer for copper to weather in Calgary than it does in most places. I think I've heard it said that in Calgary it takes about 15 years for copper to start to turn green.

By then Calgary next stadium would make that station extinct no?

[snootchiebootchies]

Count me in as someone who thinks the copper/rusted steel look is attractive. That worn patina makes it look old and noble. I would be interested to find out what the consensus view of Calgarians would be.

[calgarywinning]

Originally Posted by Flash Walken

I actually really like that building.

I get that it isn't for everyone, I probably wouldn't want a skyline full of them, but it's a nice alternative to Vancouver's disgusting amount of green glass.

Have to say a whole province full of Ketchup chips was used to make this building.

[Bigtime]

Originally Posted by Makarov

I think its probably the best residential highrise built in Canada in the past decade.

I'm a fan of it too.

[MrMastodonFarm]

The big giant W is a bit much but the rest of that building is awesome. It really adds to the utterly boring Vancouver skyline.

[rayne008]

Originally Posted by polak

One art piece I like that I didn't at first is the LED display of the people walking by the 5th Avenue Fly Over.

Dunno why but I like it. Feels optimistic.

You know what would make me optimistic?

If they changed this thing ever so slightly once in a while, to give me a glimmer of hope of seeing something different.

Like once every 30 hours you would see the woman in the red dress from the matrix walk in and out of the frame.

Just enough to question my sanity after years and years of driving by it on my commute home!

I know there use to be green fricken laser beams coming from Shaw Millennium park around 2001 but no one ever remembers seeing them. I'm not crazy, I did see them in a drunken stupor on Canada Day. Not even google can back me up.

Sigh, maybe it's time to move...

[polak]

Originally Posted by Flash Walken

I actually really like that building.

I get that it isn't for everyone, I probably wouldn't want a skyline full of them, but it's a nice alternative to Vancouver's disgusting amount of green glass.

I like the idea and the change from the ugly glass that fills their skyline like you mentioned but the rust color is kinda gross.

A dark red would be nice.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Flash Walken

I actually really like that building.

I get that it isn't for everyone, I probably wouldn't want a skyline full of them, but it's a nice alternative to Vancouver's disgusting amount of green glass.

For some reason is reminds me of the Lloyd's Building.

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by rayne008

Imagine how crappy The Bow would look if those zigzag lattice things on the outside were rusty? Whatever material they used for those on The Bow is what they should be using for all these sculptures. Looks a million times better.

[ken0042]

Originally Posted by polak

the rust color is kinda gross.

A dark red would be nice.

How would you describe "rust color" to somebody who had never seen it?

[polak]

Originally Posted by ken0042

How would you describe "rust color" to somebody who had never seen it?

Orange Poo like

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by ken0042

How would you describe "rust color" to somebody who had never seen it?

A sad earthy-orangey-browny red, I think.

[ken0042]

I was thinking more along the lines of "dark red" or even "reddish-brown.'

My point being- it is a shade of dark red.

[polak]

By dark red I meant like, burgundy, I think... I dunno. Red but darker.

[peter12]

The colour of ironic urban deterioration.

[MrMastodonFarm]

The colour of loneliness on crisp fall evening, the rust overtaken by loves cold hand, a siloete of once was and will never be any more. The hue of deaths knock rattles the red, knocking it back unto memories long ought forgotten.

[tete]

Originally Posted by rayne008

I know there use to be green fricken laser beams coming from Shaw Millennium park around 2001 but no one ever remembers seeing them. I'm not crazy, I did see them in a drunken stupor on Canada Day. Not even google can back me up.

Sigh, maybe it's time to move...

Yes, they were there, but I thought they were white light beams, not green. I moved to Calgary in 2005 and those light beams were at Shaw Millennium then, but I have no clue when they disappeared - I'd guess around 2006-7. I live in Beltline and for a while, prior to development could see the site from our balcony.