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Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim
Love that tower. It really is Edmonton's nicest modernist tower. I'd argue it's Edmonton nicest skyscraper.
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I agree 100%. I think it tends to get less credit than it deserves for two reasons:
1) it was built on the northern edge of downtown where there was nothing tall behind it, so it looked kind of isolated and it didn't have that dramatic "in the middle of downtown" look surrounded by other towers
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2) it's nearly impossible to photograph the building head-on in a way that captures all of the building's interesting features at once. Something is almost always being cut off. Just finding that pic above to post was a challenge. It's hard to convey how cool it looks to someone who hasn't seen it in person.
Incidentally, regarding the train station, I remember taking the train to Edmonton in the 80s and 90s and it was always cool arriving there because it felt dynamic and modern, like an airport, unlike most other Western Canadian passenger railway stations which are typically nice, but felt more like very old museum pieces.
Interestingly, when CN Tower was built it was the tallest building west of Toronto at the time.
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here's BIG's horizontal glass-tiled version (u/c). I'll post a proper pic when completed in 2037.
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