I am wondering who's going to use the giant CRU space on 17th Avenue. It's quite a bit larger and taller than I was expecting from the...

Pretty amazing what a consistent street wall can do for you. Ties right into things!

Really don’t see builds like this very often. Forget if this has been asked before, but is the concrete design including the exterior...

I agree, $90B is a very large number, and it's difficult to know how long the economic benefits would ever truly pay off that price tag...

It's hard to conceptualize projects of this scale for both costs and benefits. Think of the provincial or national highway system - what...

I find it strange only in that my driving-wired brains think this area of Kensington is a dead-end and no one goes there. But that's...

This would be great at plenty of locations, but this location is as good as any. Everything is walking distance from here. It’s the...

There’s something to be said about urban parks you’d find in Toronto or Montreal, or say parks like Central Park, Bryant Park et al...

This one strikes me as a pretty good location but also will end up being a pretty weird building to live in. With the way that this...

So far this one is demonstrating we should use more structural wood elements in pretty much everything we build.

I, for one, am inspired to do some grass sitting this summer. Maybe a forum meetup idea, I think we can even openly drink in some parks?

Great analysis, and I agree with much of what you wrote. I wonder if another element is a sort of bandwagon effect - perhaps when fewer...

Buckmaster is a gem. And you're totally right, people do sit in this park (or is it a series of parks?)

[Long off-topic planning rant incoming alert] On the very on-topic subject of whether Calgarians sit on grass in parks at a level that...

Every province and territory except for Alberta and Nunavut lost population. Its kind of crazy to imagine places like Toronto and...