Canadian City Proposals II

[gaviscon]

Another wasted waterfront opportunity for an iconic landmark imo. This design would even be an "alright" tower for midtown..

Also takes away the thunder from the SkyTower

[Gresto]

The towers are a bit fat. Other than that, not bad.

[jc_yyc_ca]

A couple of new proposals for Calgary. Not exciting highrises, but exciting in that they are both for Calgary's East Village which had seen rapid growth 10 years ago, but has seen only one new build in about 5 years.

Lyric. Word is they are applying for a BP


Truman Hotel proposal for East Village.

[WhipperSnapper]

Sorry, no. Forget the design elements which have potential. The scale is just bad for residential unless all you care about is warehousing people. (a.k.a population density)

The only vague positive is that it's proposed downtown where there's some justification for warehousing people in concrete environments with the super large employment cluster.

I'm fascinated by Dubai but, it's a disaster of a place and it's only becoming more apparent as the massive investor boom is rapidly completing these old high density master plans. "2030 Dubai" is a in vain attempt to fix it. Apt comparisons to that place mean you're doing something wrong.

[WhipperSnapper]

The symmetry holds the Truman hotel proposal together but, then the signage will probably ruin it all. A neon(esque) marquee hanging off the side of the building is probably expecting too much.

Agreed. The back side is an absolute failure. Walling off the prime East Village Riverwalk gathering place makes one wonder what the hell is currently going on at this place.

[TorontoDrew]

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Today, Live Nation Canada announced a multi-year partnership with Royal Bank of Canada to redevelop their music venue at Ontario Place. The entirely rebuilt facility will be called RBC Amphitheatre under the new agreement. The name change takes effect immediately, marking the next chapter for the long-running waterfront venue that opened as Molson Amphitheatre in 1995 and which operated as Budweiser Stage from 2017 until now.

[Surrealplaces]

Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

Agreed. The back side is an absolute failure. Walling off the prime East Village Riverwalk gathering place makes one wonder what the hell is currently going on at this place.

Yeah, I'm not a fan of the wall at all. If they need a separate courtyard for guests, at least have it up a floor or two and have some retail fronting the pathway.

Originally Posted by jc_yyc_ca

A couple of new proposals for Calgary. Not exciting highrises, but exciting in that they are both for Calgary's East Village which had seen rapid growth 10 years ago, but has seen only one new build in about 5 years.

There have actually been a couple of builds in EV during that time. Overall EV hasn't had the momentum it had 7 or 8 years ago. Increased issues with homeless shelters in the area have had an effect, plus a slow Calgary condo market. Another DP was recently submitted for EV, so here's hoping it can get back on track.

These two were built within the last two years

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by jc_yyc_ca

A couple of new proposals for Calgary. Not exciting highrises, but exciting in that they are both for Calgary's East Village which had seen rapid growth 10 years ago, but has seen only one new build in about 5 years.

Lyric. Word is they are applying for a BP

Is this replacing the Sales Centre? Materials will play a large part in whether this looks decent or terrible.

[jc_yyc_ca]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

Is this replacing the Sales Centre? Materials will play a large part in whether this looks decent or terrible.

It will indeed replace the sales centre, and totally agree about the materials. Going by the render it can go either way. The three colors are a decent enough combination. The black looks to be metallic paneling but that white color in the middle could go either way. If they use a metal material like Alucobond it'll be fine. If they go with cheap crap, then, not so much.

[jc_yyc_ca]

This is another proposal of sorts, and it's been around for at bit, but I don't believe has been mentioned on SSP. It now looks to be going ahead, and sounds like construction may have even started, though not confirmed.

The University of Calgary is turning the bottom 14 floors of an office tower into their Architecture school campus. It'll house 800 students, plus staff.





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[J.OT13]

For the first one, I'd pick different materials, but I love the built form and courtyard. Setbacks aren't always good, but it seems well done here.

Truman hotel looks great as well. Is it supposed to replicate something that was there in the past? Only criticism is that it turns its back to the river with that high brick wall. Looks like it's enclosing a spa. Would be better if they had a one floor section over that courtyard with retail/restaurant by the river, and put the spa on the roof.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by J.OT13

For the first one, I'd pick different materials, but I love the built form and courtyard. Setbacks aren't always good, but it seems well done here.

Truman hotel looks great as well. Is it supposed to replicate something that was there in the past? Only criticism is that it turns its back to the river with that high brick wall. Looks like it's enclosing a spa. Would be better if they had a one floor section over that courtyard with retail/restaurant by the river, and put the spa on the roof.

If I'm not mistaken it is set to replace a gravel parking lot. Don't mind the front but agree the backside is pretty abysmal. It's tricky though because there is a sizeable homeless / drug addict population in that area due to the Drop in Centre. The Riverwalk is inviting and used by everyday Calgarians though, so I have no idea why they would wall it off like this unless they expect apocalyptic hordes of hobos to descend upon their patio. I mean there's a popular children's playground next door as well. As a guest I would be annoyed having to walk out the front and have to detour to get to the pathway system.

[J.OT13]

Too bad RBC is involved and claimed the name. Poor Rogers.

[harls]

Originally Posted by J.OT13

Too bad RBC is involved and claimed the name. Poor Rogers.

[Gresto]

Maybe we'll see the Hub proposal revert to its original, supertall version. This iteration, which has been floating around for years now, is just a skosh stumpy, though not quite enough to call it the Nub.

[Innsertnamehere]

Originally Posted by Gresto

Maybe we'll see the Hub proposal revert to its original, supertall version. This iteration, which has been floating around for years now, is just a skosh stumpy, though not quite enough to call it the Nub.

The current iteration of the Hub is a supertall by CTBUH definitions. The spire is an architectural feature and is 304m. It's definitely a "cheater" supertall, but no worse than the Burj Khalifa or the Petronas towers.

[Gresto]

Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere

The current iteration of the Hub is a supertall by CTBUH definitions. The spire is an architectural feature and is 304m. It's definitely a "cheater" supertall, but no worse than the Burj Khalifa or the Petronas towers.

Bah, we don't need no stinkin' spires! Do you happen to have a pic of the original? The proportions were preferable, to me at least. Once it was cut down, which was years and years ago now, I lost interest in this development.

[zoomer]

Sharing a site I created with a bunch of maps, but a main focus being a Victoria Development Tracker .

Different than some others out there because within the map you'll find links to key information, links to all relevant infor and docs plus full size images and renderings, local news stories and TV stories via YouTube and my own pics and construction update videos. Simple and user friendly with a lot of projects, lol. I had to limit myself in terms of scope to primarily Victoria and not the other 12 municipalities in the region but most people are primarily interested in what's going on near downtown.

Love to hear your feedback

Mappingvictoria

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Victoria Development Map by JohnnyJayEh, on Flickr

[zoomer]

Wow, that Calgary map is fantastic! I wonder how many people or hours it takes to maintain that and the platform used, etc, etc. If you know of a faq let me know. I'll add this to the resources tab on mappingvictoria.com as I'm putting together a collection of non-official city trackers (which tend to suck). I believe I saw a Montreal one that is based on the same model.

Edit - just checked it in more detail, the database shows only projects completed in 2025 for Calgary and is out of date for Edmonton, so I wonder how up to date it is. Which I think is the inevitable challenge of these things, there is so much out there to keep track of and on top of.

[Innsertnamehere]

Originally Posted by zoomer

Wow, that Calgary map is fantastic! I wonder how many people or hours it takes to maintain that and the platform used, etc, etc. If you know of a faq let me know. I'll add this to the resources tab on mappingvictoria.com as I'm putting together a collection of non-official city trackers (which tend to suck). I believe I saw a Montreal one that is based on the same model.

Edit - just checked it in more detail, the database shows only projects completed in 2025 for Calgary and is out of date for Edmonton, so I wonder how up to date it is. Which I think is the inevitable challenge of these things, there is so much out there to keep track of and on top of.

it's associated with UrbanToronto - same owner and platform. They tried to take UrbanToronto global on the skyrisecities platform about a decade ago without success, shutting it down about 5 years ago but leaving the forum component live.

it looks like recently they have started updating the database component for Calgary again. Calgary is the busiest subforum other than Toronto, so it makes sense. Ottawa has a busy subforum there as well and I could see the database returning there as well.