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FCC1982
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My god the Met is hideous.
The Familia
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The Met is downright criminal. Wasn't there a guy who used to post on SSP that was very involved in The Met? He was so high on the project.....
Rollerstud98
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To its credit, there are apparently a lot of strippers and escorts who live there!
Beltline_B
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Excavation looks to be close to completion. I went past this morning, and they were still excavating, but very slowly and it’s all flat on the bottom. Not much left except the earth ramp.
MudderKnows
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Certainly not the most attractive building. It seems like it is such an old building.
MudderKnows
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The Met seems like it is such an outdated building already. It is not a nice looking building for sure.
Just build it
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I wasn't involved in the project, but posted on SSP that I liked it. I don't like it as much anymore, but I think it's decent filler.
Social Justice
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I actually don't mind the Met. It seems kind of different from the other developments we've seen in Calgary. It has a kind of European feel...but a like commie block/euro suburb feel.
At least there is a decent stretch of ground floor retail on the Met, but...to each their own! ?
Beltline_B
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I don’t hate it, but make it 8 floors instead of 12, and I’d be totally fine with it . Even better add some set back terraces is on the top couple of floors
Patrick.1980
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Excavators taking away dirt from the ramp. Crane coming soon!
Urb
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Look at the shadowing from the Met. Ughhhh. The new coloured glazing on The Cube project shown here is also horrendous. Luckily Intergulf's project is decent, otherwise this would start to resemble something you'd see around Heritage and MacLeod Triail....
Mountain Man
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Shadows are something we can't avoid at this latitude, only solution would be to keep buildings to like 3 or 4 storeys. The Met is pretty ugly, but it achieves good density without being too massive. If Vantage Pointe was in the picture (instead of being the place it was taken from) it would put into perspective quite quickly what a real wall type building is.
Urb
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The size and duration of shadow pollution can be controlled by regulating massing. A point tower like this one will provide a much more acceptable shadow relative to the Met's full block slab massing, as the tower shadow moves across the adjacent lands quickly. The City now restricts floor plate sizing in the Beltline, to prevent another Vantage Point from happening.
Urban4Lyfe
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Not much has happened on this site for a long time now - has this project been shelved?