I was literally lamenting to my wife the other day what an eyesore and wasted opportunity this site had become when we drove by the other day. Regardless of how the City decides to proceed with this site, they need to clean up the rubbish on-site and find a creative temporary use in the meantime.

American elms are part or the Marda Loop Main Street replanting plan (along with northern blaze white ash and northern acclaim honey locust).

What an absolutely massive improvement to the public realm!

I feel like the building is not befitting the name “Cornerstone”.

Blush Lane, Bridgeland Market and Linas all seem to do ok. I think Urban Fare would have done better outside of downtown.

I’ll be interested to see how much natural lighting is actually achieved between this corner and the central atrium/skylight feature.

I thought a lot about this project last week while in Ontario. I happened to stay across the street from the Four Seasons Centre, and thought about whether I’d want new Arts Commons to be similar design (a transparent glass box). I love how dramatic the nighttime lighting of the Four Seasons...

Looks great! I wish we would see more of this type of proposal.

I imagine it is probably partly due to the locations of CFB Edmonton and the former Edmonton Municipal Airport. Made sense for it to be on the south side of the city. That said, I don’t know if there is a specific reason why it’s so far away from the city.

Shots of the partially completed mural, the patio space, and Elizabeth Square under development. I really hope LDG has more in the pipeline (selfishly I hope it’s in Marda Loop) because they do really thoughtful work. Everything from scale, colour, materials, lighting, etc. seems well thought out.

I don’t mind the colour. The ground floor mullions are too much though.

I’d be curious to know if the development on 37th is a product (at least in part) of Main Streets, or of the development would have occurred at the same rate regardless, because of the availability of 50’ lots with older homes.

I kind of like the blue as well.

CBC article about Lacey Court https://ca.news.yahoo.com/calgary-architectural-gem-went-celebrated-130000366.html

I agree with you, anectdotally, that there are more people walking in the neighbourhood (at least since I moved here 6 years ago). I’m one of those stroller-pushing people in Marda Loop that you’re talking about. I only drive to take my kids to daycare (and only because it’s significantly...

Now the community needs to get on board with walking instead of driving.

There are some architectural styles where form is an outcome of function. Some may disagree with me, but I think there’s beauty in the simplicity of some International Style buildings as an example. That said, I think I’m going to go against the grain and say form over function. Maybe this is...

Marda Loop Village and GoPerformance.

I’m excited to see that the Marda Loop Co-Op development is going to be a partnership with Truman. I thought we’d see something official a lot sooner given the accidental sneak peak we got, so hopefully we really do see it this spring.

I have often thought about this when walking through Elbow Park. I expect that the province will sell them or transfer them to the City (likely for sale) once flood mitigation is in place. That’s what happened in High River once mitigation was completed there.