I’d have a real hard time believing they wouldn’t keep the west facade at the very least. To demolish one of the original warehouses on a street where new development emulates them would just be ludicrously stupid. I do think just keeping the west one would be a mistake, however. The building’s...

It underwent rehabilitation in 1995, a year after the City took possession of it from the C.P.R. That work’s done a good job. The Railway never took care of the Bridge as well as they should've and under their watch its main trusses lost some forty percent of their width due to corrosion. Since...

^Looks a bit suburban for my liking, but it's great to see the investment in both the area and such an established business. Side note: I've yet to actually go to the Italian Bakery. Is it as good as everyone says?

Bit of a weird tangent, but I love that they're reinstalling the abutment's fieldstone. It's not much, but as one of the few detailing elements to the original design, it's nice to see the City put in the effort to properly recreate it. I imagine it would've been really easy to just keep it...

The old Army & Navy will temporarily be used for the Edmonton Christmas Market this Yuletide season:

I can't remember where it was said, but I think the idea was to harken back to the old pedestrian bridge that was there before.

^I'll echo that: "what height??" Now, this is all rough guesstimations based off a rendering and some Google Streetviewing, but if you're to compare the height of the new addition to the old Royal Bank Building on the corner, then use that as a reference to the height of other extant buildings...

It seems like they may have already started? https://www.thinkspace.ca/projects/post-secondary/soaring-house-renovations/

Work on the addition from Tuesday:

^^It's looking great! While not related to the Aga Khan Garden — since it doesn't seem we have a general Botanic Gardens thread — in other news, there's been rumblings that the University has conducted a feasibility study on the ground's old Arthur Erickson-designed Dyde Residence and is...

Some quick shots from today. I never realized it before, but the podium's set back quite a bit from the City's sidewalk on the southside and really helps it not feel too overbearing. The whole thing's shaping up nicely, but like some others I can't say I love the cladding colour. I don't know...

^ There’s an update to that in this video (at about 7:55 on). A cement foundation is imminent, but any further construction on the addition is dependent on the weather being good past the end of the month.

It's been confirmed that construction's been pushed back. They say they're targeting a late 2020/early 2021 opening:

^ What bugs me most is the orientation of the new addition. I know the intent is to keep the two parts as distinct as possible (and this is hard to articulate, so bare with me) but it doesn't really work having the addition run lengthwise from east to west, mirroring the original building. I...

Generally I’m against facadism, but this is one of those rare cases where I’d love to see it happen, if only to save one of our most important pieces of post-war Modernism. Despite all the grand ideas thrown out there in the past, the old Paramount is basically unusable in its current form for...

^Mid-to-late 1949. It opened to the public on July 28th, 1950:

Oh, don’t get me wrong, I’ll lament the loss of the old Army & Navy. It was the last of Edmonton’s original department stores to have been still operating in its original location, it’s reflective of the Southside’s growth in the post-Second World War years, and it’s a decent, if not exactly...

I'll agree with nearly everyone, this is a really fitting replacement. In ways it almost fells like a more contemporary take on Dubs(?) building design that’s kitty corner to the site. Retaining the old cursive “Army & Navy Department Store” sign is a nice gesture to the site's history too. My...