TooBizzy
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Increase by 20 floors each instead and it's a deal. For the sake of the skyline.
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Increase by 20 floors each instead and it's a deal. For the sake of the skyline.
aryanoboi
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There was a time when the Calgary tower looked wildly out of place in the skyline. Cities build tall and fill in from there. I’d be sure to expect that there will be a more natural “fill in” to the area surrounding these towers over time.
Albertasaurus
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Legends Tower in Oklahoma City is an example of a proposed building that will look ridiculously out of place in a skyline (arguably OKC's Devon tower already does that). In terms of sheer number of tall buildings, Calgary is comparable to LA, Houston, Dallas and Atlanta - I think it's safe to say we can surpass 900' without ruining our skyline.
Roaring Flames
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Early on most of the tall buildings downtown were all on the west end with the Calgary Tower standing relatively all alone on the east end. Skylines shift as time goes on.
konradiical
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Calgary's new skyline by 2030 will really make it feel like a big city with all the projects going on. Are other Canadian cities of similar or smaller size also getting a big boom of towers like Edmonton, Ottawa, Winnipeg (although smaller)?
Albertasaurus
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I think Ottawa has lots of new highrises going up, although their skyline is a lot more dispersed than ours, with a much smaller downtown and some big highrise clusters in the west end and Dows Lake areas, where a lot of the taller new projects are happening. And none anywhere near as tall as Stampede Station.
Edmonton, from what I've seen on my last visit very little construction and not a lot of proposals I'm aware of. Winnipeg is just generally not a highrise city. Interestingly enough, Halifax has quite a few tall buildings going up even being 1/4 our size.
trtcttc
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There's a Frontier thread, feel free to move the post and my response.Does Frontier have a rental component and a condo component? Or did Truman hold unsold inventory back for itself as part of condo sales for the purpose of rental units (seems like they did this in Mondrian, in West District).
Frontier – Truman Rentals
renttruman.com
The units for rent are rental guarantee units, essentially the owners took Truman up on the rental guarantee offer, so Truman pays the owner the guarantee amount for probably 2 years, and tries to rent it out to recover cost. The whole building is condos, with individual owners.
Mountain Man
Senior Member
Interesting. Usually the ground floor is set at 100.0m and grade would be based off that, not the other way around.
Dkeirle
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Yeah, not much in Edmonton at the moment. They’re going through the phase we were going through a year or two ago when everybody was complaining about the lack of high-rises. Not a lot of proposals on horizon that are close though so it might be a longer drought for them.
Almost nothing in Winnipeg, but we also have to keep in mind that they are about half the size of Calgary, and it has never been much of a high-rise city.
Ottawa has a lot of high rises going up, but most are 15-30 story apartment buildings scattered around the city, where is the most being out if the core. It’s not really noticeable in any one part of the city.
AJX
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Ottawa and Winnipeg will never have a skyline like Calgary’s, especially Winnipeg, for them it’ll never even be close.
Edmonton probably won’t either, but who knows. I doubt we’ll see any more office towers built there, only apartments. Same for Calgary, but we got all those office buildings built before the office tower became less of a thing.
Regarding Edmonton, personally I preferred their skyline before Stantec, now it kind of looks like a one building skyline.
Edmonton probably won’t either, but who knows. I doubt we’ll see any more office towers built there, only apartments. Same for Calgary, but we got all those office buildings built before the office tower became less of a thing.
Regarding Edmonton, personally I preferred their skyline before Stantec, now it kind of looks like a one building skyline.
DiscoStu
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That is the most Flames thing ever.
randomuser
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Ottawa's high-rises are largely residential and not very tall to begin with. The city is highly decentralized when it comes to employment hubs, which is why the downtown core is fairly dated and hasn't seen an influx of investment.
Beltline_B
Senior Member
That’s what I found. It’s almost hard to tell where downtown is because high rise buildings are scattered.
My first arrival into Ottawa was through Kanata and coming over a hill, my wife said, ‘look there’s the skyline’ and I’m like ‘where?, I don’t see it’.
Spring2008
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Just got back from Rome yesterday evening, going to be wild seeing some new tallest towers peaking above in the foreground when flying in. Can’t wait to see east side of beltline much more built up.
Urb
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Can't wait for Vetro and Sasso to disappear...