Edmonton Construction 12 (December 2013)

[GreenSPACE]

^Just an aesthetic thing to break up the facade and provide locations for balconies.

[GreenSPACE]

Former 'Artifacts' Building:

Job No 158024079-001
Description: To construct an addition and exterior alteration to an existing 19 Dwelling Apartment House with General Retail on the ground floor (removal of north-west & south-west portions of existing building, additional General Retail Stores Use for a total of 705 sq. m. on ground floor, and additional 2 Storeys with 40 new Dwellings of Apartment Housing on north-east & south-east portion of existing building for a total of 59 Dwellings).
Location: 8222 - GATEWAY BOULEVARD NW
Plan I Blk 68 Lots 26-27

[rapid_business]

/\ This is going to be a sweet project! It was recently at EDC I believe.

[oiler-dude]

Any renders kicking around yet?

[GreenSPACE]

^Former 'Artifacts' Building.

[Coldrsx]

^^yup, but not public, snak peak is very cool and promising.

[Coldrsx]

Originally Posted by tallisgood

Does a design like this (lots of little framed boxes) have any practical use/advantages, like improved sound-proofing between units? Or is it just an aesthetic trend?

Cool aesthetic trend, but often at a thermal disadvantage for cantilevered anything is a bad bad idea in our climate.

[Kevin_foster]

Never seen this before. 3 storey office addition to LeMarchand Mansion...


KFR Engineering

[Airboy]

Originally Posted by Kevin_foster

Never seen this before. 3 storey office addition to LeMarchand Mansion...


KFR Engineering

Going up right now. As well the rest is now under plastic for the renos

[tallisgood]

Originally Posted by Coldrsx

Cool aesthetic trend, but often at a thermal disadvantage for cantilevered anything is a bad bad idea in our climate.

Thanks, Coldrsx and Greenspace. As a non-architect I've always looked at these designs and thought, "Hmm, I'll bet these would offer superior sound-proofing between units than your traditional woodframe condo," but I guess not.

[240glt]

What a nice surprise coming back from holidays.. Our tenant satisfaction surveys show us leading our company in customer satisfaction nationwide by 10 points and leading our local competitors by 20 points!!

Retention is going to be the name of the game for the next several years so this makes me very very happy for my team

[Coldrsx]

Infill roadmap

http://edmonton.ca/city_government/documents/Infill_Roadmap.pdf

City hall expects $3B bill for new Edmonton neighbourhoods, makes plans for more infill housing


BY ELISE STOLTE, EDMONTON JOURNAL

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/edmo...onton+infill+housing/10097588/story.html

[Coldrsx]

Councillor wants density debate to include all single-family neighbourhoods


BY ELISE STOLTE, EDMONTON JOURNAL AUGUST 8, 2014

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/edmo...nclude+single+family/10102717/story.html

Well said Chris.

[CMD UW]

Originally Posted by GreenSPACE

^Former 'Artifacts' Building.

Which is actually called the Crawford Block. We are in the process of officially designating the building a municipal historic resource and then demolishing the single story portion built in the late 50's to put up a 5-storey residential apartment building. An exciting project, but one with some challenges.

[Hallsy's Toupee]

Hicks on Biz: Edmonton's hotel scene is booming
http://www.edmontonsun.com/2014/08/07/hicks-on-biz-edmontons-hotel-scene-is-booming

He mentions that the Quarters hotel will be a Hyatt Place, and speculates that the new arena hotel will be a Starwood.

[Coldrsx]

Quite the growth.

[Coldrsx]

(http://i.imgur.com/yW7X3gg.png)

[Black Star]

Stunning architectural design!! Oh gawd stop.

[Coldrsx]

Westmount mid-rises











http://sirepub.edmonton.ca/sirepub/cache/2/d20m2lhiecgeeunnxfpc2j3m/34983508112014084908397.PDF

[GreenSPACE]

Hendrix appeal goes to SDAB August 21 - http://www.edmontontribunals.ca/docs/Aug_21_2014_-_River_Valley_Room.pdf