^further evidence of this can be seen in Centennial's street frontage. Far friendlier than those of buildings like Fifth ave Place or BP Tower, etc.. Those boutique buildings have all been great for street frontage (Opus 8, Pennwest I, and Centrium)
Exactly, I had your image of Centennial in mind as well when I made that statement. It's encouraging to see. It would be nice to see some towers such as Bow Valley Square, 5th Avenue Place and other ubiquitous downtown renovated and retrofitted in the future with more active at grade uses.
Exactly, I had your image of Centennial in mind as well when I made that statement. It's encouraging to see. It would be nice to see some towers such as Bow Valley Square, 5th Avenue Place and other ubiquitous downtown renovated and retrofitted in the future with more active at grade uses.
Yeah there's so many towers around that have terrible street interaction. The Dome and Home towers were terrible, especially for ceing on Stephen ave, but they've improved aliite bit with a few store entrances..... Sportsmart and HMV. I don't believe those entrances were always there. Hopefully the success of business in these new buildings will put pressure on the older buildings to retrofit some retail frontage.
Some goodies to share to make a slow Sunday an energetic paced one.
Some window washing dude at Livingston climbing over the parapet in hopes of getting his feet on his little basket strap. Talk about crazy shit, I'm sure he had a safety line somewhere but still a pretty extreme task.
A view from the Bow while rafting some weekends back:
A steady line of rafters from the very front to the very back along the rivers length. Just amazing.
Some lucky guy with 5 girls.
Near the finish line. I started at Bowness park and docked at Prince's Island.
ENJOY!
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