Calgary Construction XXVI - Page 9

Daemon · #**161** Posted **Nov 14, 2017, 5:30 PM**

Another picture of same crane and tower and beautiful sunset

ST1 · #**162** Posted **Nov 14, 2017, 6:58 PM**

Not Park Plaza, it's Parkside

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Originally Posted by Daemon

More pictures Park Plaza

People.talking · #**163** Posted **Nov 14, 2017, 8:57 PM**

Daemon, can you please learn how to resize your photos.

Deepstar · #**164** Posted **Nov 15, 2017, 1:43 AM**

That one is called Concord.

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Originally Posted by Daemon

And another one whom don’t remember name where the crane is

suburbia · #**165** Posted **Nov 15, 2017, 6:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by Daemon

lol!

Suburgatory · #**166** Posted **Nov 16, 2017, 5:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by Big Sky

Yes, Cidex. This is the project slated for that location.
http://calgary.skyrisecities.com/forum/t...ower-138m-43s-cidex-ramsay-worden.24467/

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

Yawn.

The demo is behind the Metropolitan. That project is going north. I've seen renderings for the project to the south on 12th Avenue but they're not public yet.

It's by Cressey and it's 2 towers. West tower is approx. 19 storeys and east tower 35 storeys. Tons of retail space across the 1st level.

Big Sky · #**167** Posted **Nov 16, 2017, 9:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by Suburgatory

The demo is behind the Metropolitan. That project is going north. I've seen renderings for the project to the south on 12th Avenue but they're not public yet.

It's by Cressey and it's 2 towers. West tower is approx. 19 storeys and east tower 35 storeys. Tons of retail space across the 1st level.

Oh okay, if it's to the south of Metropolitan, then it is the Cressey project.

Two towers, one 37 and the other 20.
http://skyrisecities.com/forum/threads/c...essey-chris-dikeakos-architecture.27924/

Chinook Arch · #**168** Posted **Nov 16, 2017, 9:56 PM**

Did either of you guys actually look at the photo? It's clearly right beside Chintz and company, which is not on 12th ave.

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Originally Posted by Suburgatory

The demo is behind the Metropolitan. That project is going north. I've seen renderings for the project to the south on 12th Avenue but they're not public yet.

It's by Cressey and it's 2 towers. West tower is approx. 19 storeys and east tower 35 storeys. Tons of retail space across the 1st level.

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Originally Posted by Big Sky

Oh okay, if it's to the south of Metropolitan, then it is the Cressey project.

Two towers, one 37 and the other 20.
http://skyrisecities.com/forum/threads/c...essey-chris-dikeakos-architecture.27924/

Suburgatory · #**169** Posted **Nov 17, 2017, 6:22 PM**

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Originally Posted by Chinook Arch

Did either of you guys actually look at the photo? It's clearly right beside Chintz and company, which is not on 12th ave.

Ah, I see now. That's this. https://www.google.ca/maps/@51.0431154,-...5H0rlUlQ6thTJLqvOCm7g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

I thought this was what was being talked about being demolished as there was talk on skyrise this section was being taken down.
https://www.google.ca/maps/@51.0421459,-...6HRgWMig7mqaAoFGLl4Xw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Guess it's both areas. F2 and former Maria Tomas were still there though last I saw.

Big Sky · #**170** Posted **Nov 17, 2017, 7:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by Chinook Arch

Did either of you guys actually look at the photo? It's clearly right beside Chintz and company, which is not on 12th ave.

Take a chill pill dude.

BlaineN · #**171** Posted **Nov 18, 2017, 7:12 AM**

Out of all the skyline shots of Calgary this angle is my favorite.

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Originally Posted by Daemon

Another picture of same crane and tower and beautiful sunset

Tobyoby · #**172** Posted **Nov 20, 2017, 2:59 AM**

Man, this thread is hella dead these days.

Chinook Arch · #**173** Posted **Nov 20, 2017, 5:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by Tobyoby

Man, this thread is hella dead these days.

You can thank Suburbia 100% for that. He single handily drove away the best contributors (surrealplaces, chadillac, fusili, etc).

suburbia · #**174** Posted **Nov 21, 2017, 5:17 PM**

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Originally Posted by Chinook Arch

You can thank Suburbia 100% for that. He single handily drove away the best contributors (surrealplaces, chadillac, fusili, etc).

Not sure why you guys keep dumping on me. You look through the thread, even months back, and I was a minor part in all of this. Whenever I called that out, I generally got 6-7 posts unfairly dumping on me. When you look at Surreal, he's making an income with the competitor, and I'm hardly a shareholder there. You guys need to be fair.

Getting back to construction, I passed by some sites in the university / foothills regions earlier today after some time:

The first condo building in the University District is up to floor #3. It is wood construction, though I supposed we shouldn't be surprised with that.

They've also re-opened west campus way - it is now all pavers. I'm curious how pavers there will work after a full season of Calgary's weather cycle.

The cancer centre site has tonnes of activity. There must have been like 20 pieces of equipment there, including large coring machines and what looked to be pile drivers (or what Daemon refers to as "piles machines"). With the site cleared, you can start to appreciate the scale of this thing.

The parkade in front of foothills hospital is starting to come together, and is full height for most of the site now. There seem to be three entre portals, one facing the special services building (facing south towards the current cancer centre), one facing the main building, and a third that is still coming up facing the north. There is already glass up on the portal facing south. It is not the most sightly parkade and is rather very much function based - basically doubling the capacity of what was there before.

There also seemed to be construction prep on the north side of the main campus. Not sure what that is exactly.

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Here is the November 7th construction update for the University District:
http://www.wcdt.ca/assets/Uploads/Construction-Update-2017Nov7.pdf

What I previously referred to as west campus way is marked as university avenue in this. I should add that the pond on the NW corner of the lands (kitty-corner to Market Mall) is basically all formed now (other than the water). This is a massive construction site overall.

speedog · #**175** Posted **Nov 22, 2017, 1:44 AM**

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Originally Posted by Tobyoby

Man, this thread is hella dead these days.

Then contribute some yourself.

Major construction is down compared to years past but there's still plenty of construction happning and by what I'm hearing from construction people/companies I'm in regular contact with, 2018 is looking to be a very good year on the SFH, duplex and smaller condo/townhouse projects.

Myself, I'm back into cabinet installation after an almost 1 year stint of finish carpentry and I've only had 3 down weeks in the last 84 weeks and there is no end of cabinet installation in sight.

sammyd · #**176** Posted **Nov 22, 2017, 3:13 AM**

Pavers don’t seem like a good idea there. Shaganappi trail heaves a few feet up and down each spring in that neighborhood.

ST1 · #**177** Posted **Nov 22, 2017, 7:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by Tobyoby

Man, this thread is hella dead these days.

We just had a batch of updates from Daemon!

DizzyEdge · #**178** Posted **Nov 22, 2017, 9:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by Surrealplaces

Just want to set the record straight that Suburbia is not the reason I don't post much at SSP. Suburbia and I didn't always agree, but most of the disagreement posts were was just banter. I liked to give him the gears sometimes, to get a rise out of him. but nothing more than that. I don't actually have anything against the guy.

Really just a couple of reasons.

Whenever I posted updates (which is a lot of work, especially since they have to be hosted and reposted) they would just get lost in the shuffle.

The kicker: I went to the Canada section one day and the usual gang was dumping on Calgary, which happened alot but this particular day it was just too much. I decide I couldn't in good conscience support that kind of site anymore.

I would also say that Suburbia hasn't been very trolly for a while as well.