Western Expresso

[Crisis]

When I was living in Toronto way back in 1990, TransCanada Pipelines moved it's head office from Toronto to Calgary and the bitching & whining coming from the people who had to relocate was amazing. As someone who had recently moved to Toronto from the prairies and was suddenly paying $1,000/month for an apartment, I thought these people didn't realize what a good deal they were getting. They were going to get twice as much house for half the money and be living an hour from the Rockies. And TC was covering the moving costs. This was 30+ years ago, but maybe it's attitudes like the one in the linked story that explain their hesitancy. That said, those transplants I've met in the years since seem to believe that move was the best thing that ever happened to them.

[wags_in_the_peg]

it more sounds like she bought in the wrong area of Edm. she looking for nightlife, then buy wheres theres nightlife, not outside the city

[rrskylar]

Well first birth beat out first murder in Winnipeg, so there’s a positive!

[esquire]

I know this is a random question, but I was walking by the Air Canada Building on Portage today and I took a good long look at it. It made me wonder, since the building has no real side walls, just windows all around, what was the intention in terms of development to the north and south?

Was it intended that the land to the north and south would just eventually become a grassy yard kind of like how the Great West/Canada Life campus on Osborne is? Or did the architects anticipate some sort of development on those sites?

That area to the north used to look kind of dignified when it was a park-like space, but now it's just plain ugly with the parking lot there. It got me wondering.

[esquire]

Another random building question...

I was at the Fort Garry Hotel yesterday, and when I took the elevator up I was reminded that the place has only two elevators, and they are tiny. What is the architectural story behind that?

Normally those grand old railway hotels have large banks of big elevators that could accommodate numerous people and their baggage (e.g., the Royal York Hotel), but the HFG just has two tiny elevators that look more suited to a two storey commercial building somewhere way out on Portage Avenue. What's the deal?

[trueviking]

^ Welcome to Winnipeg....we've been 'value engineering' since 1913.

[The Jabroni]

Originally Posted by esquire

I know this is a random question, but I was walking by the Air Canada Building on Portage today and I took a good long look at it. It made me wonder, since the building has no real side walls, just windows all around, what was the intention in terms of development to the north and south?

Was it intended that the land to the north and south would just eventually become a grassy yard kind of like how the Great West/Canada Life campus on Osborne is? Or did the architects anticipate some sort of development on those sites?

That area to the north used to look kind of dignified when it was a park-like space, but now it's just plain ugly with the parking lot there. It got me wondering.

It's kind of hard to say, but even if there was going to be some sort of development on the north parking lot, they would have to design whatever building it would be, to at least not "clash" with the unique design of the ACB.

I've spent a lot of time at the Air Canada Building when I was a contractor there. The 6th floor, if I recall correctly, is one big massive mechanical floor.

The 5th floor with the angled glass is pretty cool though. High enough from the inside so you won't obviously "fall over" but low enough to see vertically down.

Such a very interesting building to work in.

[1ajs]

from my archives
was running fiber from a drop to a room involved crawling under the floor a fair bit interesting building

[BuildUpWpg]

My guess: from the top part of the Air Canada building?

[QUOTE=1ajs;9842231]from my archives
was running fiber from a drop to a room involved crawling under the floor a fair bit interesting building

[esquire]

Originally Posted by BuildUpWpg

My guess: from the top part of the Air Canada building?

Yes... that building was the topic of conversation

[1ajs]

[QUOTE=BuildUpWpg;9844806]My guess: from the top part of the Air Canada building?

Originally Posted by 1ajs

from my archives
was running fiber from a drop to a room involved crawling under the floor a fair bit interesting building

Yea

There's a big room that used to be air Canada call center and bunch of data centers on that floor

[rrskylar]

See that it’s $5 February at the big white elephant of a museum of woke known as the cmhr!

Basically even when it’s free no one goes!

[OTA in Winnipeg]

^Gawd you're tiresome.

[1ajs]

Originally Posted by djforsberg

You mean the museum that opened under conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper?

and funded

its a national museum outside the capital city in the worlds second largest country and is 2 -3 days drive from the nations capital

[blueandgoldguy]

Originally Posted by rrskylar

See that it’s $5 February at the big white elephant of a museum of woke known as the cmhr!

Basically even when it’s free no one goes!

Hey, there are world-class museums in the USA that are free. Nothing wrong with a $5 admission charge.

[rrskylar]

Originally Posted by blueandgoldguy

Hey, there are world-class museums in the USA that are free. Nothing wrong with a $5 admission charge.

Reeks of desperation to try and get anyone into the hollow shell of a museum!

[OTA in Winnipeg]

^Have you been?

[rrskylar]

Originally Posted by OTA in Winnipeg

^Have you been?

Yes I have and I’m embarrassed to say more than once!

[rrskylar]

Originally Posted by djforsberg

If it quacks like a fascist and walks like a fascist...

Nice from our resident communist!

[Hecate]

Fascists like to “other” people and djforsberg does an excellent job of that. He does a good job at playing victim too. I’m apparently xenophobic towards people from Saskatchewan. Lol. Maybe djforsberg is xenophobic towards Manitoba’s conservatives. Lol.

Seriously, I had high hopes for the museum when it opened, but it’s a dud. in all honesty, they hired the most uninspiring people to bring this museum to life. Next to nothing ever changes and when it does, it’s like one glass case, put together with less thought than a high schoolers science diorama. What do the curators do there all — day, day after day after day.