What do you think of this project?

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IanO said:
I don't think that's temp...
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I'm talking about the railing and stairs leading to the door; obviously the structure is permanent and as I stated most likely mechanical vent plus fresh air make-up for the pedway. You can see in the rendering that the temporary railing and stairs are gone.
 
MattPT said:
I know this isn’t the right thread to ask this…but… the black with colours building in the background… is that that old sketchy apartment on 101? The lack of windows makes it look like the old remand centre lol
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Slightly more colourful, but it sure does have more of a prison vibe. Perhaps decent or ample windows are now only a thing for the upper and middle classes.
 
David A said:
Slightly more colourful, but it sure does have more of a prison vibe. Perhaps decent or ample windows are now only a thing for the upper and middle classes.
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While it didn't apply when this one was first built, current code provisions don't readily support decent or ample windows from an architectural/livability perspective.. The "vibe" you describe here is likely to be more and not less common going forward.
 
Lots of newer buildings seems to have decent or more apple windows. I suspect their target market is more upper or middle classes.
 
kcantor said:
That would be my guess as well.
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I think it's just an elevator down to the parkade (see pic from October 2024). The parkade extension has new ramps to move between levels on the far east side, as well as a "105 Avenue Exit" which is the exit using the dock exit/entrance. However, there are pedestrian markings in that area, so maybe there could be a pedway connection via the parkade?

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Did a tour of Switch yesterday and the Qualico staff said the building was 59% full as of yesterday and they are getting 1 to 5 new renters everyday and expect to be full before end of summer. The next tower is expected to start later this summer to next year. Mostly due to the tariff issue not being known. Building was nice and the under construction park is going to be amazing.
 
We’re just not used to developers putting thought into projects. I don’t think we should ever complain about anything like this that’s being built by private money. Hopefully it draws people to the area. I also don’t necessarily see a point to it, but not everything in a well built city has to have a point. It adds visual and tactile interest (not sure if tactile is the exact right word to use here) but I just mean, things like this that you can interact with, are usually (and it this case hopefully) well received.

A public example on a larger scale would be the weird mushroom thing in Sevilla. Not really a point to it, but it’s cool. Not everything has to be completely utilitarian
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Edmonton is very much built and based on being such a utilitarian city, partly due to the era it grew in. This is not all bad, but yes that type of thinking is so very pervasive here.

I agree, live a little, build something interesting or different every once in a while, especially if it is non public money.
 
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