Brookfield Place Calgary | 247M - 56F | Construction - Page 51

Bigtime · #**1001** Posted **Apr 1, 2015, 2:22 PM**

First steel is up!

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Originally Posted by jstarr

Well even though the flames new arena didn't get announced at least there is some news worth sharing!

First Steel is up at Brookfield place

Spring2008 · #**1002** Posted **Apr 2, 2015, 7:20 PM**

^so cool!

Surrealplaces · #**1003** Posted **Apr 13, 2015, 3:30 PM**

Brookfiled Place by Construction Mania, on Flickr

HomeInMyShoes · #**1004** Posted **Apr 13, 2015, 3:35 PM**

The beast is rising!

Jay in Cowtown · #**1005** Posted **Apr 13, 2015, 4:13 PM**

I wish they would take 6 floors off of the shorter tower and add them to this one. Still going to be a great addition to the skyline regardless

Spring2008 · #**1006** Posted **Apr 13, 2015, 7:31 PM**

It's interesting how the core for the first few floors dominates the heritage buildings surrounding it already lol.

With this gone, the last real void in the core is the Oxford site, then every little lot and underutilized building and parkade is fair game. Maybe next cycle we'll see some slim supertalls like NY lol dare to dream.

craner · #**1007** Posted **Apr 14, 2015, 12:26 AM**

There is also that empty large portion of the lot NW of 6th. Ave. & 2nd St. SW (west of BVS).
Haven't seen anything ever proposed or rumored there since the 1980's. Would have thought something would get proposed there, it's so central - wonder who owns it?

#**1008** Posted **Apr 14, 2015, 3:35 AM**

Is the core huge relative to the size of the building (compared to EAP) or is it just me?

TallBob · #**1009** Posted **Apr 14, 2015, 4:21 AM**

Jay in Cowtown: You haven't been around for a while..... And yes, I also wish they'd lop off a few floors off of tower #2 and add to this one would make it 64-65 floors!!

Govertical · #**1010** Posted **Apr 14, 2015, 5:03 AM**

Craner : I thought that years ago (maybe a decade?) that epcor was going to expand their office next door to that lot, was the lot not included in the expansion?

craner · #**1011** Posted **Apr 14, 2015, 6:39 PM**

^ I thought it was just a vertical expansion and reno of the existing Epcor building - that's what I recall anyway.

s4.audios · #**1012** Posted **Apr 17, 2015, 4:51 AM**

Is the core going up to house just the elevator shaft? Seems rather large.

jstarr · #**1013** Posted **Apr 17, 2015, 4:56 AM**

The core houses three banks of ten elevators for low mid and high as well as bathrooms emergency stair wells and utilities.

Spring2008 · #**1014** Posted **Apr 17, 2015, 10:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by Acey

Is the core huge relative to the size of the building (compared to EAP) or is it just me?

Yeah looks like it. EAP2 seemed like a blur for me, happened so fast. With this being the same kind of construction, could see it quickly rise.

s4.audios · #**1015** Posted **Apr 18, 2015, 1:45 AM**

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Originally Posted by jstarr

The core houses three banks of ten elevators for low mid and high as well as bathrooms emergency stair wells and utilities.

So it's housing almost all the common area. Makes a lot more sense, thank you for the clarification.

craner · #**1016** Posted **Apr 18, 2015, 4:05 AM**

Was just thinking looking at the pictures with the steel starting that this is going to go fast now. Just like EAP, it will be making an impact before we know it.

lineman · #**1017** Posted **Apr 18, 2015, 2:29 PM**

I would think that the building core would shrink as it gets taller.

RWin · #**1018** Posted **Apr 20, 2015, 2:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by Jay in Cowtown

I wish they would take 6 floors off of the shorter tower and add them to this one. Still going to be a great addition to the skyline regardless

Or just add 30 to the shorter tower

TallBob · #**1019** Posted **Apr 21, 2015, 4:05 AM**

RWin: Even a height fanatic like myself, unfortunately knows that an extra 30 floors would put the project well past the 2.4 million sq. ft. for the site! But as far as I'm concerned tower #2 could be 76 floors and I would be extremely happy!!

Surrealplaces · #**1020** Posted **Apr 21, 2015, 5:28 AM**

Brookfiled Place by Construction Mania, on Flickr