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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
The oilers arena looks like it was designed to look good from an aerial shot. It doesn’t look great from the street - which is where it’s experienced from 99.99% of the time.
Our arena may not look the best from an aerial shot, but it’s going to look pretty good from the street, which is what you want when you want to develop around it.
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Which is something they emphasized many times during the meeting yesterday. It's not an "object building" designed to sit alone in the middle of a massive parking lot, but it's designed to integrate with the surrounding community.
Speaking of the meeting, the video is now online:
https://pub-calgary.escribemeetings....b-cff81667578b
The Event Centre discussion starts around 3 hours and 25 minutes into the video. There is a short video that starts around 3:34 which is mostly flyby shots of the model.