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canterra on whyte - truly a shame this didnt go
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All I have to say is thank God the Century 2 was not built.
To bad about that Canterra project on Whyte. Looked like a solid building. |
where was Eagle's Nest slated to go?
I also like the looks of that one.... |
Oh, and where's the pic of the proposed multi-use facility where the stadium is now? That could be added to the list
edit: meaning i'm looking for it but cant find it! |
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Wow... 90% crap... thank god.
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Eagle's Nest would be built on the empty parking lot between the Shaw Conference Centre and One Thornton Court aka the Marriott.
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http://www.suntorytimes.com/images/Misc/othumb.jpg http://www.suntorytimes.com/images/Misc/o2thumb.jpg http://www.mccauley.info/Media/Multimedia/Boyle-McCauley%20N ews%20Nov%202005.pdf New art gallery sparks memories of OMNIPLEX GARRY SPOTOWSKI The recent competition to rebuild the Edmonton Art Gallery spurred a couple Edmonton Journal letter writers to compare the grandiosity of the plan with that of the Omniplex. Younger readers of the Journal, and even a few older ones, probably didn’t have a clue what the writers were referring to. But had the Omniplex actually been built, the Boyle McCauley area – Edmonton for that matter - would have a totally different look. The Omniplex was a gargantuan building proposed in the late 60s to “revitalize” the downtown core. It combined features of the Commonwealth Stadium, the Edmonton Coliseum, the Shaw Convention Centre, and the Winspear Concert Hall – all under one roof. It’s likely none of those major structures would have been built had the Omniplex been approved. It was to be located roughly where the Law Courts building and the main Post Office are now. Perhaps the most spectacular feature of the Omniplex was a floating or raisable football field that could be elevated to uncover the hockey facility below. The ceiling of the hockey rink would be the elevated floor of the football stadium. As its name implies, the Omniplex would have it all: 100,000 square feet of convention space with seating for up to 25,000 delegates; a 3400 seat cultural theatre; movie theatres; an LRT station; a 32,000 seat football stadium, a 12,000 seat ice arena and much more. It was such a major proposal that it went to Edmonton voters twice. Once in 1968 when they were asked if the City should seriously consider looking at it, which voters agreed to, and again in 1970 when they were asked in a plebiscite if Council should borrow the $26 million to build it, which – momentously - they did not agree to. The rest is history. For the record, I can remember sitting at the kitchen table when my dad came home after voting. He had voted no. “Not enough parking,” he said. |
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Yes to all 3 ^^
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^ Too bad Founders Ridge is dead.. well I am not surprised, would have been a half assed project tho.
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I dont know that its actually dead, but come on...
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What about the CN Pylon? Or was that just vision?
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^^I think I've seen images of that somewhere before online...^^
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Founder's isnt dead.
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Question: Was Commerce Place 2 just conceptual or was the infrastructure built into the podium so that it could be done at some point ?
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Out of any building in the city that didnt go ahead, to me this would have been the most influencial on the current look and feel of the downtown. Not to say it couldnt still happen, but it would be much harder nowadays. |
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