Brookfield Place Calgary | 247M - 56F | Construction - Page 32

Spring2008 · #**621** Posted **Apr 23, 2014, 5:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by The Fisher Account

How many cranes would you need on site for a building this size?

I'd say 3, similar to the Bow(north side)

Blue_Cypress · #**622** Posted **Apr 23, 2014, 5:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by Spring2008

I'd say 3, similar to the Bow(north side)

This tower will have a lot more in common with the way penny lane was built than how the bow was built.

Full Mountain · #**623** Posted **Apr 23, 2014, 5:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by The Fisher Account

How many cranes would you need on site for a building this size?

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Originally Posted by Spring2008

I'd say 3, similar to the Bow(north side)

My guess is 2 similar to EAP

Edit: Blue Cypress beat me to it:

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Originally Posted by Blue_Cypress

This tower will have a lot more in common with the way penny lane was built than how the bow was built.

Spring2008 · #**624** Posted **Apr 23, 2014, 5:26 PM**

Maybe 3 for the parkade, 2 for the actual above ground tower building phase.

Chadillaccc · #**625** Posted **Apr 23, 2014, 5:29 PM**

I'll repost my main update shot to this page, since it's now all but certain that they are finally at the bottom

Wide View by Chadillaccc, on Flickr

defaultuser · #**626** Posted **Apr 24, 2014, 12:06 AM**

Here's what it looked like on February 7th

Chadillaccc · #**627** Posted **Apr 24, 2014, 3:32 PM**

Nice shot! You should get a recent one of that view! It's twice as deep now

mersar · #**628** Posted **Apr 24, 2014, 6:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by Jimby

Where does all the excavation go? Are they building a mountain somewhere?

Not sure about this project specifically, but a lot of the recent excavations have been used for levelling large areas for residential development.

Bigtime · #**629** Posted **Apr 24, 2014, 7:22 PM**

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Originally Posted by mersar

Not sure about this project specifically, but a lot of the recent excavations have been used for levelling large areas for residential development.

So the inner city also subsidizes the dirt in the burbs?

suburbia · #**630** Posted **Apr 24, 2014, 9:04 PM**

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Originally Posted by Bigtime

So the inner city also subsidizes the dirt in the burbs?

We'll send a gift down the sewer pipe for ya'. Get ready to catch!

Shylo · #**631** Posted **May 1, 2014, 7:27 PM**

Brookfield20140501 by ShyloGR, on Flickr
Original

H.E.Pennypacker · #**632** Posted **May 1, 2014, 7:32 PM**

By my amateur eye, it looks like they're clearly up the remaining dirt and preparing for the crane to come?

Full Mountain · #**633** Posted **May 1, 2014, 7:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by H.E.Pennypacker

By my amateur eye, it looks like they're clearly up the remaining dirt and preparing for the crane to come?

There is still an excavator going deeper directly beside the ramp on the left hand side of the picture, and the other equipment on that side seems like items relating to tie back installation. (from my uneducated interperation)

kw5150 · #**634** Posted **May 1, 2014, 9:08 PM**

I just did a little google satellite view of a bunch of random, large american cities.......I have never seen so much sprawl or lack of street life before. Just pick some random cities and go look. These cities are destined to fail unless the start filling them in!

Louisville, Kentucky is one of them. It is really amazing how amazingly dense and full of life our little cities are in Canada.

Spring2008 · #**635** Posted **May 2, 2014, 3:04 PM**

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Originally Posted by kw5150

I just did a little google satellite view of a bunch of random, large american cities.......I have never seen so much sprawl or lack of street life before. Just pick some random cities and go look. These cities are destined to fail unless the start filling them in!

Louisville, Kentucky is one of them. It is really amazing how amazingly dense and full of life our little cities are in Canada.

Thanks for the Brookfield Place update

kw5150 · #**636** Posted **May 2, 2014, 3:30 PM**

Well I saw the picture of the brookfield pit, with all of the old building around it, and it kind of looked like a site you would see in a huge city. So I went and looked and so many large cities dont have downtowns like we do......just sprawl for hours in each direction, surrounded by more sprawl.

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Originally Posted by Spring2008

Thanks for the Brookfield Place update

HomeInMyShoes · #**637** Posted **May 2, 2014, 3:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by kw5150

I just did a little google satellite view of a bunch of random, large american cities.......I have never seen so much sprawl or lack of street life before. Just pick some random cities and go look. These cities are destined to fail unless the start filling them in!

Louisville, Kentucky is one of them. It is really amazing how amazingly dense and full of life our little cities are in Canada.

Have you ever even been to Louisville? It has quite the beautiful downtown from a pedestrian level. While it's got a few parking lot issues on the ringes the main core has quite a nice scale to it.

kw5150 · #**638** Posted **May 2, 2014, 4:35 PM**

Im sure it is nice. I just can believe the amount of sprawl in some of these cities!!! It looks like everyone wants the country lifestyle in the middle of the city. Save that nice inner city (looks like the city is already experiencing some urban renewal which is good).

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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes

Have you ever even been to Louisville? It has quite the beautiful downtown from a pedestrian level. While it's got a few parking lot issues on the ringes the main core has quite a nice scale to it.

HomeInMyShoes · #**639** Posted **May 2, 2014, 5:00 PM**

Most of Louisville was developed prior to 1940 which meant a lot of influence from the whole Garden City movement of the early century. That lead to most of the green space and size of lots for a vast majority of the city. What I did find in Louisville is that the sprawl is radial and quite straight from a streets standpoint making it (in places) more walkable than the suburbs of Canada where everyone has to be on a crescent and the walking distance is often three times the crow flies distance. What I hate in both cities is the draconian and misguided zoning that has been with us since those days. Almost the only time mixed-used zoning comes into play is in gentrificatoin of neighbourhoods that could have been designed better to start with.

Enough off topic though. I can't wait to see Brookfield get above ground because a new tallest in any city is fun to watch. Come on Regina, build something 100m.

MasterG · #**640** Posted **May 2, 2014, 5:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes

Enough off topic though. I can't wait to see Brookfield get above ground because a new tallest in any city is fun to watch. Come on Regina, build something 100m.

You might be able to see this from Regina it's so tall

When are we thinking the crane base and concrete pour to begin? Summer?