Winnipeg Construction IX - Page 140

Urban recluse · #**2781** Posted **Apr 12, 2017, 4:40 PM**

No f*uckin murals.

windypeg · #**2782** Posted **Apr 12, 2017, 5:42 PM**

The murals are getting much better than they once were. The new "star blanket" thing on Main is great - lots of colour, looks sharp and no cheesy deformed human subjects in it. Looks less like a desperate attempt to cover up decay and more like a building turned into art.
http://cargocollective.com/knnth/Star-Blanket-Project

rkspec · #**2783** Posted **Apr 12, 2017, 5:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by OTA in Winnipeg

Is that what the black part is? It looks like a very large LED panel.

i just walked by....its black bricks (Notre Dame side)

EndoftheBeginning · #**2784** Posted **Apr 12, 2017, 6:03 PM**

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Originally Posted by windypeg

The murals are getting much better than they once were. The new "star blanket" thing on Main is great - lots of colour, looks sharp and no cheesy deformed human subjects in it. Looks less like a desperate attempt to cover up decay and more like a building turned into art.
http://cargocollective.com/knnth/Star-Blanket-Project

Nice view of downtown on that web page - you don't often see that angle (from any height).

Edge Gallery, 611 Main Street. Photograph by Jonathan Ventura. http://cargocollective.com/knnth/Star-Blanket-Project

bomberjet · #**2785** Posted **Apr 12, 2017, 6:11 PM**

Anyone know what's being built along the west side of the Red River at Redwood Bridge? Is that an expansion of whatever that religious place is? Seems like a rather large building going in.

OTA in Winnipeg · #**2786** Posted **Apr 12, 2017, 6:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by bomberjet

Anyone know what's being built along the west side of the Red River at Redwood Bridge? Is that an expansion of whatever that religious place is? Seems like a rather large building going in.

Expansion of that seniors residence.

esquire · #**2787** Posted **Apr 12, 2017, 6:37 PM**

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Originally Posted by EndoftheBeginning

Nice view of downtown on that web page - you don't often see that angle (from any height).

Awesome view of a seriously underappreciated part of downtown Winnipeg.

blueandgoldguy · #**2788** Posted **Apr 13, 2017, 12:40 AM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

You read my mind... this thing probably gives children nightmares

They definitely are getting better, though... I actually like this one in the Exchange:

sources: themuralsofwinnipeg.com

That said, it's fine to put a mural on a cinder block wall on an alley. It would be an affront to put one right on Adelaide and Notre Dame on a wall that actually has some quality materials. Next time Hydro builds a substation, they'd just cheap out with cinder block or metal siding and hire a kid to throw up a mural... it's a bad precedent.

Looks just like Cindy and Clara. Really captured their likeness.

With regards to some of the above posts about a hypothetical downtown U of M campus I can't see how it couldn't have been anything but great for Winnipeg. Just look at Montreal with all the universities in and around downtown and how fantastic street life is there. I believe over 100,000 students in total. No vast seas of parking lots, most of the old historical buildings intact.

buzzg · #**2789** Posted **Apr 13, 2017, 1:12 AM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

You read my mind... this thing probably gives children nightmares

They definitely are getting better, though... I actually like this one in the Exchange:

sources: themuralsofwinnipeg.com

That said, it's fine to put a mural on a cinder block wall on an alley. It would be an affront to put one right on Adelaide and Notre Dame on a wall that actually has some quality materials. Next time Hydro builds a substation, they'd just cheap out with cinder block or metal siding and hire a kid to throw up a mural... it's a bad precedent.

It's fine to make an entire half block of a neighbourhood a giant blank wall but quality art that livens up an area is bad? Ok. I can't believe we;re settling for "a wall that actually has some quality materials" as sufficient for the Exchange.

Yes, there are a lot of horrible murals in the city, like the ones on Corydon and Sargeant... but real quality street art is exactly the thing that should be promoted on that stretch that will now be forever desolate, bordered by the Hydro station, Towne Theatre's blank wall, and the Calvary Parking Lot.

goldenboi · #**2790** Posted **Apr 13, 2017, 1:55 AM**

Hey guys! I've been following these winnipeg threads for a while and I thought I should say hello. I look forward to posting more in the future.

cllew · #**2791** Posted **Apr 13, 2017, 2:03 AM**

Hydro has this set of murals at the Main St and Semple Substation and I don't think it looks too bad

https://www.google.ca/maps/@49.9381108,-...M-uMS3Pa0O2FQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

Pinus · #**2792** Posted **Apr 13, 2017, 2:20 AM**

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Originally Posted by goldenboi

Hey guys! I've been following these winnipeg threads for a while and I thought I should say hello. I look forward to posting more in the future.

Welcome! Always great to have a new member contributing. We need more positive input and conversation and of course CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM is always welcome too! I'm just hoping you won't turn out to be a continual Debbie Downer like certain posterS here; you'll figure out who they are real quick

esquire · #**2793** Posted **Apr 13, 2017, 3:54 AM**

Welcome goldenboi!

esquire · #**2794** Posted **Apr 13, 2017, 3:55 AM**

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Originally Posted by buzzg

It's fine to make an entire half block of a neighbourhood a giant blank wall but quality art that livens up an area is bad? Ok. I can't believe we;re settling for "a wall that actually has some quality materials" as sufficient for the Exchange.

I know nobody loves that wall, but on its own it at least has a certain dignity that will be lost if we unleash a local mural painter on it.

Murals work best when they go on brick walls, back alleys, that sort of thing. Not front and centre on a facade.

Urban recluse · #**2795** Posted **Apr 13, 2017, 3:24 PM**

Totally agree.

CoryB · #**2796** Posted **Apr 13, 2017, 5:22 PM**

Murals are essentially commissioned and approved graffiti. The original think seems to be that it is unavoidable someone is going to use the area as a canvas so might as well hire someone to at least make a painting that isn't too objectable.

esquire · #**2797** Posted **Apr 13, 2017, 6:33 PM**

WAG expansion and Diversity Gardens in limbo?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/i...nservancy-pc-government-budget-1.4067639

Biff · #**2798** Posted **Apr 13, 2017, 6:41 PM**

It is really strange as both projects are currently subtrade pricing. Something I wouldn't think you would undertake if you still required sign-offs for funding.

bomberjet · #**2799** Posted **Apr 13, 2017, 9:25 PM**

Anybody seen or heard of any issues with the new pedestrian signal at Main and Assiniboine?

Story by CTV notes the main issue is vehicles not stopping at the traffic signal. So enforce that 🞵🞵🞵🞵, what the hell! They're making it out to be some kind of issue with the way the City installed the crosswalk.

BubberMiley · #**2800** Posted **Apr 13, 2017, 9:33 PM**

I've noticed that if there are no cyclists on the west side waiting to cross, cars heading east and waiting to turn right onto Main Street don't realize that they should also be looking right for crossing cyclists from the other side of Main while looking left at oncoming traffic.
In other words, they tend to be looking north while turning south and are really surprised when there are bikes there.