A loss, but some degree of Trumpism erosion.

I don't know for certain, but I know Beljan had expressed a strong interest in repurposing the building and had worked with an architect and an indigenous group to flesh out a concept.

The rezone was approved last year.

A little side-step here... today is the (final) election day for district 7 in Tennessee to fill a vacant House of Representatives seat. It is interesting because it is also a measure of the repudiation aimed at Trump (who won the district by 22-points last November). The Democrat running is...

^ Many of these do not need to be tear-downs... they could actually be added onto (horizontally and vertically) and repurposed into 3 or 4-storey units with retail/hospitality below and offices/residential above. Not every subjective unit needs to re-densified into sardine-can-like residential...

^ Well said @policyenthusiast -- maybe it is the best trend that could hit Edmonton -- quite forcefully. If the poorly conceived housing, infill or apartment types (no matter), start to become rejected by the renting/buying public (voting with their feet so to speak) then it becomes a...

^ They keep impressing me with small details -- would be nice if there was an overhead heater here.

And live rent-free in Mama's basement

I don't think CNC would handle that kind of demand -- clinker bricks would require special attention because they are unique products in clay-firing processes (since no two are exactly alike). I think they would be processed as they currently are -- I think that there randomness of form is the...

^ No -- I am proposing depressing it underneath Old Strathcona -- pedestrian elements above; roadway below. Access points to Old Strathcona at 80th Avenue, Parking near the Farmers' Market and off ramp at Saskatchewan Drive. If anything the drive into central Edmonton via Gateway would be...

Zone 2 is significantly more intense than Zone 1 and defines more of a central heart for Old Strathcona...

^ Well this was almost expected, wasn't it.

^^ I wouldn't draw those conclusions any more in the present day. It must be more than a dozen years ago that I had a favorite millworker/finishing carpenter friend of mine show me how his then new CNC machine worked. With a computer generated program (which I provided) he laid out piece by...

We desperately need an Edmonton School of Architecture; the hope is that it would become another critical branch of study that would shine a light on the poor standard we are currently dealing with in residential apartment design in particular..

^ Make the suggestion @Platinum107 next time you are "Centre-ing"; you might find there is some interest there. Ms. Spinelli seems like the type to be open to good ideas.

^ In my (extensive) architectural work history I have never once used "off the shelf" windows for any project. Sealed units can be developed for any size window quite readily and with strict energy codes and use codes requiring inclusive elements such as low-e glass, subjective tinting...

^ No but there could be a way where the Design Committee Review group uses their leverage to say "you have to show some exceptional design if you want to remove this house from the Historical Record" -- it would certainly need more teeth to effectuate that scenario.

Savoie - McDavid - Hyman Podkolzin - Draisaitl - Mangiapane Henrique - Nugent-Hopkins - Janmark Clattenburg - Lazar - Frederic Ekholm - Bouchard Nurse - Regula Kulak - Emberson Skinner Pickard Not exactly how I would have lined them up but close enough for positive results -- the star centres...

^ With rapid prototyping on the table (granted builders and suppliers need to catch up) reproducing historic elements isn't the challenge that it once was.

^ I agree -- we don't want to keep entire neighborhoods frozen in time; on the other hand when something substantial is subjectively superseded by a retrograde then both the neighborhood and the social fabric are tattered.