10-14-2014, 01:45 PM
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#1361
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Join Date: Oct 2002
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Good glazing could go a long way on it, and I wouldn't mind it that much as a 'filler' tower, but agreed it would be a missed opportunity not to do something much more iconic for that site. The podium looks really tacked on.
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10-14-2014, 01:47 PM
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#1362
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My face is a bum!
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The one good thing about impending sub $80 oil is that thing will never get built.
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10-14-2014, 01:59 PM
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#1363
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: NYYC
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Originally Posted by SebC
55 floors = new tallest?
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That's been the assumption (Brookfield Place is only 56 btw). Not by much though most likely.
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Originally Posted by octothorp
Good glazing could go a long way on it, and I wouldn't mind it that much as a 'filler' tower, but agreed it would be a missed opportunity not to do something much more iconic for that site. The podium looks really tacked on.
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Chances are the glazing will look very similar to Eight Avenue Place (the two towers recently built near Bankers Hall). Same architect, who has a fairly consistent (and conservative) style.
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10-14-2014, 02:03 PM
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#1364
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First Line Centre
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At least it's not a set of twins.
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10-14-2014, 02:03 PM
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#1365
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Originally Posted by Table 5
That's been the assumption (Brookfield Place is only 56 btw). Not by much though most likely.
Chances are the glazing will look very similar to Eight Avenue Place (the two towers recently built near Bankers Hall). Same architect, who has a fairly consistent (and conservative) style.
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Same architect? For this new Oxford building?
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10-14-2014, 02:28 PM
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#1366
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: NYYC
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Originally Posted by ranchlandsselling
Same architect? For this new Oxford building?
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Both this building and EAP are Pickard Chilton.
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10-14-2014, 02:32 PM
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#1367
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Behind Nikkor Glass
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This is something Edmonton would be creaming their acid washed jeans for.
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10-14-2014, 03:03 PM
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#1368
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tromboner
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: where the lattes are
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Whatever gets built here needs to be taller than "The Edmontonian" (assuming it would not violate the shadowing laws).
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10-14-2014, 03:17 PM
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#1369
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: NYYC
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Originally Posted by SebC
Whatever gets built here needs to be taller than "The Edmontonian" (assuming it would not violate the shadowing laws).
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A basic suburban strip-mall would be taller than the Edmontonian, because only one of them ever has the chance to exist in reality.
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10-14-2014, 03:20 PM
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#1370
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It's kind of "meh", not the worst thing out there but definitely not the most creative. Looks like one of those revival designs from original drawings done in the 1990s. A wasted opportunity if you ask me, given its incredibly central location in downtown.
I will wait for the Telus Sky building to be completed to set a new standard of skyscraper design in Calgary though.
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10-14-2014, 03:28 PM
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#1371
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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
It's kind of "meh", not the worst thing out there but definitely not the most creative. Looks like one of those revival designs from original drawings done in the 1990s. A wasted opportunity if you ask me, given its incredibly central location in downtown.
I will wait for the Telus Sky building to be completed to set a new standard of skyscraper design in Calgary though.
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Have you seen the latest renderings? It's already uglier than it was supposed to be 
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10-14-2014, 03:29 PM
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#1372
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tromboner
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: where the lattes are
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Originally Posted by Table 5
A basic suburban strip-mall would be taller than the Edmontonian, because only one of them ever has the chance to exist in reality.
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But it would be great if our real buildings were taller than their imaginary ones.
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10-14-2014, 03:31 PM
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#1373
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Originally Posted by nik-
Have you seen the latest renderings? It's already uglier than it was supposed to be |
Really? How so?
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10-14-2014, 03:34 PM
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#1374
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Atomic Nerd
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Bunk
The easterly phase, from what I've seen, actually looks different from that.
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Perhaps you saw the old design? That one was much more podium and 1990's looking with a strange castle fence/wall and general barf around the property. I'm glad it's more terraced/futuristic now.
Last edited by Hack&Lube; 10-14-2014 at 03:51 PM.
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10-14-2014, 03:35 PM
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#1375
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Atomic Nerd
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Bigtime
Just leaked a few minutes ago, Oxford's proposal for the fomer IOL land in downtown Calgary:
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Is the poor Courthouse Park (great place to have lunch!) going to get destroyed by this thing's shadow?
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10-14-2014, 03:38 PM
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#1376
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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
Is the poor Courthouse Park (great place to have lunch!) going to get destroyed by this thing's shadow?
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It shouldn't. The building is north of that park.
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10-14-2014, 03:42 PM
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#1377
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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
Perhaps you saw the old design? That one was much more podium and 1990's looking with a strange castle fence/wall around the property and town homes by the water. I'm glad it's more terraced/futuristic now.
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No, that's the very old design from the original land use. I saw the latest DP.
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10-14-2014, 03:47 PM
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#1378
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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
Really? How so?
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All the "seams" (I don't know the actual name for this part) around the windows are black now instead of the white that they had in original renderings. It comes across much less ethereal
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10-14-2014, 03:59 PM
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#1379
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Violating Copyrights
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Local 522 is still there. Yay!
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10-14-2014, 05:54 PM
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#1380
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Judea
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Table 5
A basic suburban strip-mall would be taller than the Edmontonian, because only one of them ever has the chance to exist in reality.
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It's possible that the Stantec Tower will be taller than anything current or committed to in Calgary, including Brookfield.
The developers are being coy about the ultimate height.
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/Stant...480/story.html
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