I guess you can never post enough pictures of your city, so here’s some more. I took all these last Saturday on one of my huge picture-taking walks. There’s some random buildings pics, some construction pics and some miscellaneous pics.
Enjoy!!!
I start my journey off a few blocks from my apartment….
This will soon be the ‘Laurier Pub’:
Quite a pit Xenex has:
Not too keen on the addition here:
The old Electric Avenue bar:
Old sign poking through:
Future site of Gateway Beltline on the right side of the picture:
Gateway Beltline site again:
10th Ave has so much potential land to build on:
As far as new buildings go in the Beltline, I really like this one:
This area could have much more potential:
Future site of a building I can’t quite think of the name of right now:
Future site of the 999 Building:
Future site of Astoria:
Uptown Chic? Umm yeah:
Not too many houses left in the area (across 10th Ave from where Luna will be):
Stella/Nova:
These apartments will make way for Luna eventually:
On the right, buildings soon to be demolished for Kai towers:
Kai site again:
Kai site yet again:
Kai site one more time:
Sorta like this one. It is unique:
Used to be a gas station here (built circa 1940s ??) This site would take years to clean up the soil.
A while ago I heard something could get built on the site where this old brick house sits on. One of the nicer homes in the area left, I say:
Same house:
Random building:
Super Drug Mart:
Future condo tower site (Bennett Glass site):
Bennett glass:
Lusanne/Montreaux Site (ie: the middle of nowhere):
L/M site:
L/M site again:
Ummm…isn’t that an old rendering for where the President Apartments are (12th and 7th)?:
Too much stucco:
That’s a neat little contraption:
Stampede Pontiac site. This area could see some major redevelopment:
9th Ave:
That entrance on the left is looking a little retro these days:
Vantage is quite slender from this ‘vantage’:
Mmm…concrete:
More retro goodness:
Retro goodness detail:
Some last shots of Penny Lane:
Penny Lane and Opus:
Me thinks this view could be a little different in a few years:
York:
Lots of activity happening at the Bow site. It kind of exciting even though they’re just doing utilities stuff:
Laurier Lounge, actually- and good for them, replacing that tired, tired "Michelangelo's" and giving LL some real space and a killer, massive patio. This is going to be great.
LL is in the same building as the now-departed Purr on 17th- is that block being demolished too? Anyone?
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Laurier Lounge, actually- and good for them, replacing that tired, tired "Michelangelo's" and giving LL some real space and a killer, massive patio. This is going to be great.
LL is in the same building as the now-departed Purr on 17th- is that block being demolished too? Anyone?
I heard the former Purr building will be demolished.
Which makes me think a new development would encompass the block from 8th Street to where Purr is now. That would be a pretty huge site.
I wonder what the Purr building looks like if all the metal cladding was removed. It's a pretty old building...
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Not too keen on the addition here:
I actually dont mind it, I kinda like buildings that are hybrids of old and new styles, like the Shaw building. And it's more or less tacked on, so if someday someone wanted to reclaim the original, they could just knock it off.
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I love this building:
I love that building too, but man the pink granite glued on the columns at street level to match the towers behind.. is just hideous.
Although much of the redevelopment going on in the Beltline is exciting, I do have some concern about the number of small (and perhaps affordable?) shopspace being ripped out, to be replaced with new space that may only be affordable to chain stores.. if anything Calgary needs more small shop space, not less.
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Nice angles! I myself actually like the addition to the Royop Block, I guess it's because it is clearly an addition to an older building and not just a case of historicism.
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On its own I like the addition but I hate how it's just plopped on the top. Why does it need to be there? If it was an addition to the side or if it was a stand-alone building, it would be great, but I am in the minority of people it seems that just don't like it. I love the original building however, I'd just like to make that clear
Nice angles! I myself actually like the addition to the Royop Block, I guess it's because it is clearly an addition to an older building and not just a case of historicism.
Historicism would be absolute blasphemy...but if that tacked on addition means the building doesn't get torn down, I might be able to live with that thought..
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