[Oddball]

Haha, that would be unique. I wouldn't mind seeing an accessible downtown hockey rink. Maybe the can put it on top of the driving range. Pffft take that Tokyo with your multi-level clubs! We've got hockey on top of our golf!

I just realized the Vietnamese place my dad likes to take me for lunch is in the quasi-retail side of the parkade along 7th street. I'm going to put forward a motion that any new project will have to preserve Ha Long Bay Restaurant. Complete with early 90s doctor's office waiting room decor and linoleum everything.

 

[UrbanWarrior]

Went by today and snapped a new one...

 

[Ramako]

The difference between Brookfield Place West and Eighth Avenue Place West is that the foundation of EAP west was built along with the east tower. With Brookfield West, there is a substantial demolition and a 7 story parkade to build, so it will take a long time even when it does begin construction which likely won't be until the 2020s.

Hopefully by then they'll have a new design for the west tower. Not that I don't like the design, but I'm generally not a fan of twin towers, especially ones with slightly different heights as though it creates some kind of additional visual interest.

 

[Surrealplaces]

^^^I love the slimness of Brookfield Place

I would prefer to see a shopping centre instead of the second tower, and having a driving range on top would be cool. I would also be okay with a rink on top for winter, and a play park with rubber floor in the summer.

 

[Surrealplaces]

 

[UrbanWarrior]

I agree. It would be nice if phase two ended up being a taller more iconic tower.

 

[Oddball]

Tall is always great and who couldn't use more iconography. I do appreciate the proportion of the original project though and seeing several interesting vantage points leads me to believe if would look nice on that block if it went through as planned. However, something even better can probably be achieved. And hopefully not when pigs take flight from Bow Tower South.

 

[BKha]

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Nice and slim - just like the Brookfield tower

 

[BKha]

I would prefer if the second tower does not get built, simply because of the amount of twin towers already. If it does get built, maybe it gets built at a time when the styles have changed and they go with something new. Having the seconds building be residential or hotel is good also.

 

[maestro]

Hopefully by then they'll have a new design for the west tower. Not that I don't like the design, but I'm generally not a fan of twin towers, especially ones with slightly different heights as though it creates some kind of additional visual interest.

Twin cereal boxes of differing heights forming an L- shape is a Calgary staple. Phase 2 may just prove to be too big.

 

[Surrealplaces]

Source: Chadillac on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/66175113@N06/

 

[Surrealplaces]

 

[Surrealplaces]

 

[Surrealplaces]

Brookfield from the top of the core, which is now topped out.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Brookfield-Place-Calgary/182371781955520

 

[bennessb]

whoaooa how do we get that guy's view?