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"The destructive effects of automobiles are much less a cause than a symptom of our incompetence at city building" - Jane Jacobs 1961ish
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"The destructive effects of automobiles are much less a cause than a symptom of our incompetence at city building" - Jane Jacobs 1961ish
Wow the Avenue Building looks great! Love the chrome balconies! and the 3 storey addition on the other building looks good too!
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Mohkínstsis — 1.6 million people at the Foothills of the Rocky Mountains, 400 high-rises, a 300-metre SE to NW climb, over 1000 kilometres of pathways, with 20% of the urban area as parkland.
I like the two distinctive glazing design techniques used on the TD Building and Manulife. The TD Building uses grey stone to clump together multiple stories of black gazing making the building (at a quick glance) appear to only have 6 or so really big floors. Contrast that to Manulife which uses small glazing units to appear to have a hundred or so small floors.
"But a city can be smothered by too much reverence for its past. The skyline must keep acquiring new peaks, because the day we consider it complete and untouchable is the day the city begins to die." - Justin Davidson - May 2010 Issue of New York
Calgary is such an anomaly. It's like Dubai, 12 seconds after take-off there is nothing. I'm rooting for Calgary, but it has a long way to go to show some substance. When Vancouver was even smaller than Calgary, we built one of the greatest neighborhoods in the country, and it was the West End. Not sure if Calgary can duplicate.
What are you talking about? Calgary has the beltline. Just about the same thing/size as Vancouver's west end but south of the main skyline instead. Im sorry but I had way too good of a weekend in Calgary walking around and enjoying the city to listen to this crap. Calgary is nothing like dubai.
^that perspective really shows quite the amazing scale difference between a rather tall condo versus a rather large office tower.
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Looks like its zoomed in quite a bit too so thats a bit deceiving. 
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