[Mountain Man]

What a space! looks massive too.

They could make people take the stairs, it's good for the calves.

Not sure how they would get around barrier free requirements, people in wheelchairs don't do so well on stairs and safety codes people at the city usually don't let that stuff slide.

 

[Surrealplaces]

It's too bad they didn't rent it out to people to use as social gatherings, showings, fundraisers etc..

 

[FCC1982]

A shot from inside the crown

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This MUST be made a publicly accessible space - it’s just too awesome not to be. What a waste.

 

[heightjunkie]

Would have been great as a limited table restaurant. But, even a simple observation deck probably would have been a money maker for the building.

 

[October]

I feel like I remember someone mentioning that one reason they didn't make it into an observation deck was so it didn't take business away from the Calgary Tower or something along those lines, but I could be wrong.

 

[heightjunkie]

I wonder what it would cost in todays dollars to do that proposed extension of Calgary tower to 300m that would make it worthwhile again.

 

[Chinook Arch]

I feel like I remember someone mentioning that one reason they didn't make it into an observation deck was so it didn't take business away from the Calgary Tower or something along those lines, but I could be wrong.

I recall something like that as well. I'm okay with keeping the Calgary Tower as the main spot for tourist observation deck, but it would be nice to see this open to people in some form or another, even if it was only employees and employee guests like The Bow.

 

[Travisty]

I wonder what it would cost in todays dollars to do that proposed extension of Calgary tower to 300m that would make it worthwhile again.

I think that proposed extension of the Calgary Tower was an April Fools joke in one of the papers.

 

[The Familia]

What would it cost to demolish and rebuild the Calgary Tower? I'm not sure of any new observation towers that have been built recently....

 

[UrbanWarrior]

Lotus Tower, Milad Tower, Canton Tower, and Tokyo Sky Tree to name a few.

The Tulip in London is proposed but seems unlikely to go through.


Edit: Tulip is cancelled.

 

[Just build it]

Lotus Tower, Milad Tower, Canton Tower, and Tokyo Sky Tree to name a few.

The Tulip in London is proposed but seems unlikely to go through.


Edit: Tulip is cancelled.

It’s not really fair to compare those cities to Calgary though. Asia is a different market, and those cities have super cheap labour. London isn’t super cheap but is a global tourist hub. The economics of building a new tower wouldn’t make sense in Calgary.

 

[UrbanWarrior]

Oh of course haha. I wasn't saying anything about a comparison between Calgary and those cities, I'm not whack. The discussion was about someone being unaware of any observation towers built recently, and I responded with those that have been.

 

[Alex_YYC]

Top of Brookfield Place was lit up orange yesterday. Probably a nod to indigenous people and the whole residential school disaster.

from https://www.facebook.com/zorica.gm.7

 

[Joborule]

Wonder how come they don't do more variety in their colour selection. Maybe for special events/acknowledgements like this?

 

[Nimbus]

Nice to see they did that. I always thought they could do the Red-White-Red for Canada Day, would be cool.