I didn't get a sense for how sloped the outer walls would be from the renders. It's looking more and more like a spaceship and i love it!

Are we sure the epoxy-whatever going in now is due to an actual deficiency, vs managing normal cracking? none of the cracks in this pier (I ride through it pretty often, including before these repairs) seem very large or worrisome. if anything, i'd be concerned about water from the failing...

^^Thank god. I've been watching this for a while, feeling very nervous. there's no way the original (wooden) structure is still viable, given the fire took the entire top floor and all the water damage. recreating it is the best option at this point. i'm betting any original interior features...

interesting! It might be an issue with the switch West of 100st. were the outbound trains switching over to run on the right side through churchill at least?

^underground is definitely lower maintenance (lower risk rapid deterioration and massive repair bills) than above-ground parkades. The number of absolutely ROTTEN above-grade parkades in Oliver is shocking; once you start looking for them they're everywhere. the exposure of the structure to the...

Seeing projects witch from condo to rental right now, during the design phase, a lot of the change has to do with amenity variety and competitiveness, at least for rentals. Here's what i'm noticing at work. New (so usually aimed upmarket) rentals will need a grocery list of features to be...

I didn't realize how exciting a Woodframe C-shape building could be until this thing came along. I love the attention to site and incorporating little elements for the benefit of the neighbourhood, like the walkway facade. not many builders of these are looking at this building type with that...

there was work happening on the Tawatina over the weekend. Not sure what they were doing, but there were workers all over the bridge itself and the approch coming off the Muttart Stop.

It's happening! Marigold will be completely shutting down SPR between 131-139 streets on April 24, reopening November 2023. No cars, pedestrians, autonomous RC cars, nothin. I guess they want the summer to get stuff moving on this ROW. I wonder what they plan to get done in that time? it's only...

Was it the pier at the South end of the bridge proper? where the wooden deck meets pavement? there's been water dripping down that pier since the melt started, from the joint between the bridge and the viaduct. it looked like a missing seal or clogged rainwater leader or something. Maybe that's...

No, that whole thing was a design-team only project, (at least the way my office operates) so above my pay grade lol, I was only privy to offie-wide chatter on the subject. I don't think we had much info about other proposals coming in either, our client just happened to have some knowledge of...

they just cleared the site across the alley from this location, with planning approval sought for a 6-storey, 95-unit woodframe building. branching further off. I'm thinking Westrich won't be moving on a tower like this for a while, instead focusing on the lower-cost woodframes they have sites...

it is! 6 storeys. it's being built from pre-framed wall and floor sections, as opposed to all stick-built on site. the crane will be needed to assemble those components. The project on University Ave, just East of 114st is the same construction method.

Was at kingsway last night and got these photos through the fence of the airfeild. The last photo shows the track is now connected to the existing line, with the existing caternary pole waiting to be removed. The rail looks continuous all the way to NAIT station. The last time i was in...

from the website linked in the tweet: "System Demonstration is expected to start later this month". beyond that, there appears to be several phases of service-level testing, frequencies, and more training. the webpage is otherwise pretty scant on figures, just the usual content about testing and...

I was just looking at this, i love the exposed concrete. they did a good job coordinating all their mechanical too to make those bulkheads clean, based on what the photos show. these interiors are pretty nice!

^there was $20 million in the city's 2023-2026 capital budget set aside for land acquisition along 113 st north of 127 Ave, and exploratory surveys and design work regarding the Castle Downs extension. there was a key council vote in 2021 that reaffirmed that the city's next expansion to build...

I'm genuinely so curious about the sparkly soffit. Do they have a product in mind? how will they keep it clean? is it some LED installation that fails after a couple years? overall I love what GEC has done with these stations, clean and simple. but that soffit ends up pulling so much design...

The fact that this thing is moving onto its 3rd floor and just got its structural permit... I love it. i wonder how far things will get before the rest of the permits for the exterior, interiors, etc get approved.

most of the plan iterations made publicly available show their entire site being turned into a Parclo-esque interchange. this building is also one of the last WWII-era hangars left of the airfield; unique in it's design and the only one still in use as a place of business (as opposed to a museum...