It looks like the Brentwood Commons new design might connect through to University City. Love the large open promenade with raised parking lot crossing from the LRT station through the middle of the development.
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CBBarnett
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As with Glenmore Landing, it's like all of a sudden everyone involved in these large-scale redevelopment transit-oriented developments realized that pedestrians want to walk in a straight, efficient path directly between the station and the destinations. That alone is a revolutionary step forward in Calgary's design culture!
Still a bunch of weird angular stuff in the renderings, but if they keep this pedestrian-only spine it's a giant win.
Albertasaurus
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It's not award winning architecture but I'd still take this over the latest Sentinel proposal any day of the week. And it would just be nice to get some proper TOD happening in this town.
haltcatchfire
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This view provides some hope for the grade level.
Patrick.1980
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I’ll be honest, I don’t love the tower designs specifically but I’m happy about the project overall. I couldn’t care less if the tower was designed like a purple lizard, the direct path laneway from the LRT station through the development to the park on the other side, as well as the connection of the laneway to University City trumps the tower design.
maestro
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Design and function such as the above ground parking decks right in the middle of the development create the feel of the neighbourhood than a master plan that happens to intersect with adjacent properties which, BTW, should be the minimum standard for any multi-phased development. The plan's connectivity with its surrounding trumping unattractive tower design or desparation for any transit oriented development to advance out of the design phase is a slippery slope. Vancouver does better than Toronto. Evenso, transit oriented development across Canada has devolved into huge residential tower complexes nearby transit than mixed use, human scaled, urban communities. It's become less admirable.
kotk2800
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CalgaryTiger
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What's the latest here?
MichaelS
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The top two images are the new design that has been discussed the past few pages. Those final 3 images are the old design when Quary Bay Investments was involved, that is now dead.
haltcatchfire
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Won't Somebody Please Think of The Gas Bar!
potatopizzafan
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Oh thank god
kotk2800
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CalgaryTiger
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It's a simulation.
kotk2800
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Office proposed
Meikkhaell
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With that being the case, could someone update the project title to be reflective of the true developer & # of stories lol