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Jimby
Sep 3, 2007, 11:06 PM
CTrain in the East Village, with the new ArriVa condo tower in the background
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another Saturday night in Forest Harlem
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1886 Cafe
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traffic backed up heading IN to downtown in the afternoon rush hour
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I was offered crack within about 12 seconds of pulling in to the beer store parking lot to take this pic
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Seventh Avenue transit mall looking west
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rainy night on Macleod Trail, the Cactus Club Cafe
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London condos
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PetroCanada Centre
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Gulf Canada Square framed by Bankers Hall in the reflection. Gulf Canada Square is named for an oil company that no longer exists. It was ahead of its time in energy conservation in the early 1980s and is unique in that there is no furnace for the building.
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inner courtyard of Olive live-work condos at The Bridges, Bridgeland
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Bankers Hall east tower and the Hollingsworth building in the foreground
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Calgary Courts Centre atrium in the rain. A security guard kicked me out of the alley after I took this pic. It is the largest court house in Canada, over 1 million square feet including the atrium between the 2 towers.
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Sasso + Vetro condo towers
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CTrain carries a phenomenal 250,000 sardines every weekday. North America's most successful LRT system for ridership.
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TransCanada building. Tied for 4th tallest in Calgary with Canterra. It was the last major office building to be built in Calgary around the turn of the century. Now there are about a dozen office buildings in various stages of construction with plenty more planned. Two of the projects are in the billion dollar range.
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Stella and Nova condos, to be joined by third sister Luna
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cranes at Keynote, 2 condo towers and one office building, ArriVa condos in the distance which is the first of three towers, and the short crane in the distance is the Ribtor office building.
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acrobatics in the alley across the street from the Hyatt
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Opus on 8, office building almost finished construction. The project was started on spec but was quickly fully leased.
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IBM campus, building 2 almost finished,and building 3 about half way done. As seen from the Hotel Arts office building construction
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Union Square condos, tower one of two
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Centrium Place, office building almost finished construction.
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Cranes on Bankers Court and across the street tower one of Homberg Harris nears completion and tower 2 is at the foundation stage
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From the top of the Bow parkade the night before the Stampede Parade:
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Nexen:
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Husky:
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Bankers Hall
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the LEDs above the CTrain platform change colours
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Beat Niq, the place for jazz in the basement of the Grain Exchange, Calgary's original "skyscraper"
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Glenmore Trail looking eastbound. Calgary's biggest road project ($110 million +) partially opened this summer. Traffic has really improved in the GE5 area from my point of view.
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ArriVa condos in June. Move-ins start any week now. The first of 3 condo towers. The crane for the Stampede casino is in the foreground.
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Huge downpour, June 5, Elbow Drive. It was way worse elsewhere but I was stranded on high ground at home, thankfully!
The mud in the foreground is our driveway and the shrub floating away was sacrificed for GE5 (Glenmore Elbow 5 Street) road widening. It took 13 months, but we now have a paved driveway, a new sprinkler system, and a new front lawn.
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McDougall Centre park at night
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First Canadian Centre and Energy Plaza
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London condos 1-2-3
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Centennial Place -23 and 40 storey offfice buildings spec project by Oxford
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Livingston Place 2 new 22 storey office buildings, Pengrowth head office
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The Bridges, urban renewal on the site of the former Calgary General Hospital which was imploded in 1998 by the provincial government
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K-town
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channel 8
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London Calgary (again)
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the bike couriers call this 'The Tranny', TransCanada Tower
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Canterra, named for a defunct oil company.

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Boulevard of Broken Dreams at the Blackfoot Truck Stop
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Nova, Sold Out
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Barron Building, vintage 1950s era office building, now being renovated
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looking up at TD Canada Trust tower, a BASE jumper fell through one of these skylights once. He lived.
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Eatons Centre Sears with the new courthouse in the distance.
Sears is closing their downtown former Eatons store and Holt Renfrew is moving in.
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Eatons Centre, the baby to the giant in Toronto
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Apparently the building was the venue for Joni Mitchell's first pro gig. She went to the Alberta College of Art here.
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old and new on Stephen Avenue Mall. The 3 buildings on the left (where Subway is) are going to become "Fashion Central"
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The Bay Arcade on Stephen Avenue Walk
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Colt Engineering (now Australian owned) and called Colt Worley Parsons on Southport Road, with Southland Crossing and fire hall in foreground
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Indian Oil and Gas head office on the Tsu'u Tina Nation
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Glenmore Reservoir
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Second Street is a dead end for no good reason
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One of the quads: Bow Valley Square Two, will there ever be a BVS5?
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Calgary Chamber of Commerce sold their air rights to the PetroCanada Centre which takes up the rest of the block. PCC west tower is the tallest building west of Toronto in Canada.
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From Crescent Heights looking south east
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Bow river, downtown west end
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E.R. at the new Alberta Children's Hospital
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part of the wind breaker sculpture on Stephen Avenue Walk, blue version
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Children's Hospital from across the Bow valley
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Quarry Park, a billion dollar suburban office park in SE Calgary, the new Canadian head office for Jacobs Engineering
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food court at Chinook Centre, Calgary's largest mall about to get even bigger, hauling in the dough...
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The Bay and CTrain, Seventh Avenue SW
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Five West tower 2
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Union Square condos, tower 1, and Mescalero restaurant sign
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dawn of another day
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Bravo and Encore, to be joined by Ovation
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Crestmont looking towards NW Calgary
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Springbank Hill
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Opus
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June 25 after a hail storm, Elbow drive south of Heritage about 1pm
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the City has issued over 600 demolition permits so far this year, but squatters set this place on fire before it could be torn down
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Cowboy's bar bites the dust to make way for a billion dollar project of 2 office towers.
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there are more pics to see if you keep scrolling down past the comments
Babbage
Sep 4, 2007, 1:23 AM
Great pics...

I lived in Calgary for a year in 97...I bet there have been a lot of changes on the skyline since then. It amazes me how much office space is in that city. I live in Indy now and the office market is relatively stagnant, with most growth on the northern suburbs. Our tallest is taller than your tallest but our skyline pales in comparison and office bulk.
Jimby
Sep 4, 2007, 2:34 AM
Great pics...

I lived in Calgary for a year in 97...I bet there have been a lot of changes on the skyline since then. It amazes me how much office space is in that city. I live in Indy now and the office market is relatively stagnant, with most growth on the northern suburbs. Our tallest is taller than your tallest but our skyline pales in comparison and office bulk.

HI thanks for having a look. I find it hard to believe that 1997 was 10 years ago already!!!
I don't think you would notice much difference in the skyline as nothing taller than PetroCanada has ever been built and it went up in the early 1980s. You would notice a few new buildings here and there, and lots of construction going on. I think the biggest change you would see would be on the outskirts as there are entire areas of the city that are new since then.
The skyline should change by 2010 when the 58 storey Foster designed The Bow tower is built. I'm hoping that since EXXON/Mobil-Imperial Oil has moved their head office to Calgary from Toronto and are scattered in several downtown buildings, they might want to build something higher than The Bow.
They own most of the block between 5 & 6 Avenues SW at 4 Street and they just bought the alley from the City.
Rusty van Reddick
Sep 4, 2007, 2:50 AM
Great pics...

I lived in Calgary for a year in 97...I bet there have been a lot of changes on the skyline since then. It amazes me how much office space is in that city. I live in Indy now and the office market is relatively stagnant, with most growth on the northern suburbs. Our tallest is taller than your tallest but our skyline pales in comparison and office bulk.

Babbage, check out the calgary construction thread here (in "Alberta" thread under "Canada") and prepare to be completely gobsmacked.
skrish
Sep 4, 2007, 2:56 AM
Great collection of photos livingforthecity. You've quickly become one of my favourite photographers on SSP.
Thinner6
Sep 4, 2007, 5:32 AM
Awesome pics. I had to save one or two to my desktop :)
Wooster
Sep 4, 2007, 6:06 AM
Excellent pics! You are fantastic photographer.
Calgarian
Sep 4, 2007, 6:09 AM
Great thread, you've got a good eye.
ady26
Sep 4, 2007, 8:35 AM
Some interesting buildings in Calgary, still an impressive skyline for a metro of 1 million people!
vanman
Sep 4, 2007, 11:29 AM
Top notch pictures. Some look very professional.
boden
Sep 4, 2007, 11:43 AM
Good work.
Jimby
Sep 5, 2007, 3:04 AM
Thanks everyone for taking the time to leave a comment. This is the first time I have done a photo thread on SSP, and I hope to do some more of them as the new buildings go up around town.
Coldrsx
Sep 5, 2007, 3:43 AM
hell YES!

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Hell NO!

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Thinner6
Sep 5, 2007, 4:16 AM
Nexen really is a great building from that angle.
Jimby
Sep 5, 2007, 7:20 PM
Hell NO!

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What can I say? It is an Edmonton based developer! ;)
entheosfog
Sep 11, 2007, 1:29 AM
Nice pics!!! :)
I love being kept in the loop of all the goings-on in my former city and your photos are a pleasure to look at for sure!
Jeeper
Sep 11, 2007, 2:13 AM
Someone call 911 for me, my jaw has fallen to the floor and I can't speak.
Wooster
Sep 11, 2007, 3:16 AM
What can I say? It is an Edmonton based developer! ;)

They've come around though. Their next project in Beltline - The Kahanoff project - is one of the best projects in town.
Babbage
Sep 11, 2007, 4:53 AM
Yeah I've seen a couple of different databases with Calgary highrise construction. I think the one here on skyscraperpage has 40+ UC and the one on emporis had like 22. Whatever the current number, it's phenomenal for a city of just over a million.

Calgary may be sprawling out somewhat...but at least they're subdivision lots are small enough, like a lot of cities in western NA, to allow for a short trip to the closest LRT station; then ride to downtown. That's what my dad used to do. Good planning on their part to keep most of the offices downtown. In Indy, only about 1/3 of office space is downtown...jobs dispersed, less use of public transit or light rail capabilities. :tup:
Jimby
Sep 12, 2007, 2:06 AM
Thanks everyone for your kind comments. It has been rather chaotic with the site being down so much.
And Josh I'm looking forward to seeing the Kahanoff project get going!
flar
Sep 13, 2007, 3:28 AM
Great photos, this is one of the best Calgary sets I've seen
Strayone
Sep 13, 2007, 4:26 AM
Amazing amount of construction, I have always admired Calgary's skyline, very nice shots.
IntotheWest
Sep 13, 2007, 5:29 AM
Fantastic shots...some very cool, interesting angles. Keep posting more as you take'em!
Jimby
Sep 14, 2007, 2:36 PM
Vantage Pointe
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Nuera - excavation for twin 34? storey condo towers at Stampede Station with cranes for Keynote and Palliser South behind
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Chocolate condos
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"Health on 12th" The Sheldon Chumir Downtown Health Centre
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eleven eleven Eleven AVE. with Vantage Pointe in reflection and Nova condo construction
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Vetro condos
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Vetro + Sasso condos
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Vantage Pointe
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Colours condo
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M-TECH, now Hitachi
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Health on 12th with Castello condos u/c
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Beer ad, dead tree, and Stampede Station office building u/c
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Sheraton Eau Claire at dawn
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Nova (u/c) will be taller than Stella, and Luna (the 3rd tower) will be taller than Nova
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affordable housing and homeless crisis

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west end from 10 Ave
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even Heritage Park is under construction with acres of earth moving going on as well as building
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the distant city
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Alderman Ric McIver, we have a civic election coming up in October.

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Stella condos
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Stanley House, an old mansion turned into offices in lower Mount Royal, Saturday night September 15
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McCaig Tower at Foothills hospital
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little bridge at Prince's Island Park
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Prince's Island Park lagoon
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Shell Centre.
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entrance to the Hamptons in NW
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Churchill Estates
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Heritage Medical Research Centre (Wellness research or something) and Foothills Hospital expansion
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Centennial Place 3 cranes
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fun at Eau Claire plaza
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new Home Depot in "Tuscany", showing the CP Rail main line, the Stoney Trail bridge over the Bow river, and COP Canada Olympic Park ski jump and luge track in the distance.
Stoney Trail is the northwest component of an eventual ring road. The bridge was started on the north side and pushed across the river inch by inch.
Home Depot is all by itself right now.
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University Research Park
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Country Hills Boulevard NW westbound
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Plains Indian Cultural Survival School wasn't worth fixing the building and the C Train SW leg is planned to go through here
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crane on SMART Technologies new world headquarters in University Research Park, within walking distance of a CTrain station, the university, parks, housing, and shopping centres. We need more Transit Oriented Development in Calgary.
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Garrison Green, on the site of our former military base which is now being redeveloped
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Peacekeeper Park in Garrison Green. There is a wall in this park with the names of Canadian peacekeepers killed since the '60s. They thought there would always be enough room to add more names, but tragically since then Afghanistan has meant more than 70 names to be added almost filling up the wall.
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at the military funeral for Cpl Nathan Hornburg on Oct 4, 07. He was tragically killed in Afghanistan. There were over 1,000 people at the service.
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Garrison Green sales office
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very successful Calgary Farmer's Market at the former army base.
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Copperwood and Encore condos seen from across the Bow Valley on Toronto Crescent NW
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condos along the walking/bike path in Eau Claire, you can't afford to live here
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Garrison Green
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Jaipur Bridge to Prince's Island Park. Calgary is twin cities with Jaipur India.
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635 kms of bike paths in Calgary, and lots of single track too
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looking west to Weaselhead natural area and the Tsu'u Tina Nation from North Glenmore Park. Sorry, the Rockies are hazy Saturday September 15, they were doing a controlled burn west of Calgary today
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the dude
Sep 14, 2007, 3:03 PM
is there any end to calgary's growth? well done.
Jimby
Sep 14, 2007, 3:38 PM
is there any end to calgary's growth? well done.

The boom is just gearing up! It should be quite something to see in a couple of years if everything in the planning pipeline comes to fruition and if the price of oil keeps going up. There are quite a few construction projects that I haven't managed to get around to taking pics of yet, so stay tuned for more.
Thanks for having a look and leaving a comment.
volguus zildrohar
Sep 14, 2007, 3:56 PM
Always a treat.
Austinlee
Sep 14, 2007, 4:46 PM
The growth in Calgary is just staggering. Great tour!
Jasper and one o nin
Sep 14, 2007, 10:28 PM
WOW! I gotta get down to Calgary.
Calgarian
Sep 15, 2007, 5:22 AM
This thread gets better every time I look at it.
jeffwhit
Sep 16, 2007, 5:32 AM
How did I miss this thread for so long? Bravo sir!
ScottFromCalgary
Sep 16, 2007, 6:05 AM
Well done, as always
Bokimon
Sep 16, 2007, 7:53 AM
Gorgeous pictures Living!
The night shots of downtown are just awesome, It makes me love all this growth and developments even more because I just cant wait to see what changes we shall have in a few years.

What is your equipment/?
Boris2k7
Sep 16, 2007, 8:00 AM
AWESOME!

Wow, just wow. You do wonderful low-light work. Really captures the city in a different... light.

This thread has inspired me to start putting together my own summer photos collection.
Florence26
Sep 16, 2007, 8:48 AM
Excellent pics:cheers: :cheers: :tup: :worship:
Bergenser
Sep 16, 2007, 11:29 AM
Mind blowing photos! :tup:
Chelsea Spy
Sep 16, 2007, 11:47 AM
gread thread - I never realised Calgary was such a metro - it looks more like a city of 2 or 3million!
Jimby
Sep 16, 2007, 2:55 PM
Thanks everyone for all your comments! You made my day!
My equipment is an Olympus Stylus 800, Lumix with 12 X zoom, and my new baby a Nikon D40X. :)
Thinner6
Sep 16, 2007, 5:49 PM
That last Calgary shot looking West takes the cake. Wow!
Jimby
Sep 18, 2007, 3:24 AM
The view from Toronto Crescent NW Sunday evening September 16.
Original size! Scroll sideways to see it all.

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sync
Sep 18, 2007, 2:11 PM
awesome!
Babbage
Sep 19, 2007, 1:48 AM
How's the ring road progressing in Calgary?

I'm amazed how much office space is downtown. How did they keep it all there? Here in Indianapolis around 1/3 of it is dt and the market there is somewhat stagnant, though may see future growth.

What an impressive skyline for a metro of around 1 million.
boden
Sep 19, 2007, 2:04 AM
Good God......it might snow tonight in Calgary............
going to be 28 in Belleville tomorrow!
Good pics btw.
Surrealplaces
Sep 19, 2007, 2:56 AM
Friggin awesome pictures Living. You've been a great asset to the Calgary construction thread with your pictures.:tup:
Surrealplaces
Sep 19, 2007, 2:57 AM
Good God......it might snow tonight in Calgary............
going to be 28 in Belleville tomorrow!
Good pics btw.

Welcome to Calgary's fickle weather. It was 26C only a couple of days ago.
Jimby
Sep 19, 2007, 4:35 AM
How's the ring road progressing in Calgary?

I'm amazed how much office space is downtown. How did they keep it all there? Here in Indianapolis around 1/3 of it is dt and the market there is somewhat stagnant, though may see future growth.

What an impressive skyline for a metro of around 1 million.

The NW ring road is partially built and the rest is under construction between Highway 2 to Edmonton and Highway 1 to Banff. From Highway 2 east to the TransCanada is getting ramped up to construction phase.
The SW ring road through the Tsu'u Tina Nation is still in the negotiation stage between the Province and the Nation.
I think the historical reason for such a concentration of offices downtown is so all the oilmen could walk to the Petroleum Club for lunch with their buddies.
The City would like to see more offices and employment in outer areas near C Train stations, so that not everybody has to go downtown.
Thanks for your interest in my pics Babbage and for leaving some comments!
You will have to come back to Calgary for a visit sometime.
Jimby
Sep 19, 2007, 4:49 AM
Good God......it might snow tonight in Calgary............
going to be 28 in Belleville tomorrow!
Good pics btw.

Thanks Boden! So far tonight no snow, but it is chilly. :D 10:46 p.m. MDT Sept 18

Friggin awesome pictures Living. You've been a great asset to the Calgary construction thread with your pictures.:tup:
Thanks Surreal! Welcome home from your European adventures. :cool:
Tobyoby
Sep 20, 2007, 12:47 AM
Excellent photos dude!
Jimby
Sep 23, 2007, 3:47 AM
Vantage Pointe from Millenium Park
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Imagine in the rain
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Calgary Opera headquarters, the former Wesley United Church
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Lougheed House
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Five West 2 condo towers on Fifth Avenue
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new Bantrel Engineering offices on Glenmore Trail
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a park in NW Calgary
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TD Canada Trust Tower
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from the Science Centre looking east
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14 Street NW looking SW. It looks like a major thoroughfare that goes through the city right? No, it stops south of downtown, but it starts up again at the Rockyview Hospital which is the large structure in the far distance, however it ends again at Fish Creek Park, but it starts up again with a name instead of a number on the south side of Fish Creek Park.
Most major streets in Calgary are dead ends, the exceptions are Deerfoot Trail which is the only road without traffic lights and 16 Avenue which is supposed to be the TransCanada Highway and it has plenty of traffic lights.
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CP Rail mainline. The thin ribbon of steel that almost unites Canada.
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looking south from Nose Hill Park. Calgary has some of the largest urban parks in North America and this is one of them.
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A Bentley on Deerfoot
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Gulf Canada Square
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Hawc 2 police helicopter in action by Castello condos, crane and rising moon
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Britannia Plaza. There are 85,000 Starbucks in Calgary now. I'm kidding, I'm not sure how many thousands there are.
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that golden glittering moment
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the sun sets on Calgary's civic bird, the crane
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Blue_Cypress
Sep 24, 2007, 9:12 AM
I love the structuralist appearances of the otherwise unremarkable bantrell offices.
Deepstar
Sep 24, 2007, 3:17 PM
Awesome pictures!
Rob D
Sep 24, 2007, 9:56 PM
Very impressive photos.
OptimA
Sep 24, 2007, 10:15 PM
Great collection, livingforthecity!

The view from Toronto Crescent NW Sunday evening September 16.
Original size! Scroll sideways to see it all.

Could be another picture for CtrlAltDel to edit and render! :worship:
Calgarian
Sep 26, 2007, 3:14 AM
better again!
COLEJAY
Oct 6, 2007, 5:13 AM
Amazing pics! Always a treat to look at when I'm feeling homesick
Tarsus
Oct 6, 2007, 10:54 PM
Excellent pictures!
mSeattle
Oct 6, 2007, 11:28 PM
Calgary is a site/sight to behold! Thanks for the shots.
wisla_krakow
Oct 7, 2007, 4:07 AM
I LOVE Calgary.
Whenever I tell someone I'm born in Alberta I say just north of Calgary... even though I mean Red Deer lol.
I liked your Beat Niq picture the best.

Also, when I was last in Calgary in 05, I was surprised as to how many drug users and homeless people were on Stephens Ave. Is it still that bad?
Jimby
Oct 8, 2007, 3:28 AM
I LOVE Calgary.
Whenever I tell someone I'm born in Alberta I say just north of Calgary... even though I mean Red Deer lol.
I liked your Beat Niq picture the best.

Also, when I was last in Calgary in 05, I was surprised as to how many drug users and homeless people were on Stephens Ave. Is it still that bad?

Hey thanks everyone for your wonderful comments.

Yes Wislaw, I think the drugs and homeless problems have gotten worse.
Of course the 2 issues go hand in hand and there has been a boom at that end of the economy too. I don't have any easy answers to offer, but something has to be done.
I'm glad you liked the Beat Niq pic! That was a lucky timing to see the Rolls parked out front.

I have 2 other photo threads in the general photo thread if you are interested:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=138732
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=138965
HomeInMyShoes
Nov 16, 2007, 1:45 AM
Man, don't let TNP see this (http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1385/1078906130_c27bcda2c3_b.jpg) because they'll be getting you to do all their promotional photography. Great lighting of an atrocity.

Fantastic stuff livingforthecity.
northwest2k
Jun 19, 2008, 4:13 AM
Glenmore Trail looking eastbound. Calgary's biggest road project ($110 million +) partially opened this summer. Traffic has really improved in the GE5 area from my point of view.
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That is a beautiful highway right there! 3 lanes in each direction! More than we have in BC :(
KitchenerBitcher
Jun 19, 2008, 11:51 AM
AWESOME set of pics, makes me want to go visit Calgary.
10101000
Jun 19, 2008, 2:42 PM
Wow, that was nice.
ihatesquirrels
Jun 19, 2008, 7:11 PM
Wow. Calgary is hot.
tdawg
Jun 19, 2008, 8:07 PM
Thank god now I know where to score crack if I'm ever in Cow Town.

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whatsthepoint13
Jun 27, 2008, 4:50 AM
nice!
My friend's moving there from Baltimore...