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Thread for this project now that there's a driller on site. I don't know if the name or the principals have changed, but we'll go with this info unless we receive updated information.
haltcatchfire
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So it's going to be a bank? ATB?
adamyyc
Active Member
Glad to see this moving finally! I like the scale of this one, similar to Martel Block. I wonder if the hold up was financing, or if they might have been trying to sell the site Co-Op or something.
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CalgaryTiger
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I see the developer behind Block on 4th has this listed on their website... Interest.
The Architect has a description of the building on their website. They call the building Prairie Block? Quite the description but looks like the main floor is leased.
On June 6, 2017, a fire destroyed the 1950s-era one storey building in the Marda Loop commercial district in Calgary. Forty firefighters and their twelve trucks were able to keep the fire from spreading to the adjacent buildings.
Our project replaces this building with a two-storey mixed-use project that meets the goals of the local area redevelopment plan for Marda Loop to transform from a suburban commercial strip into a mixed-use urban hub.
TO SMOKE
The main floor is devoted to retail use that faces both adjacent streets, and will be occupied by a Prairie Records branded cannabis store operated by Westleaf.
The upper floor is designed to accommodate a single or multiple office tenants. Though the redevelopment plan allows for a taller building, parking minimums in Calgary’s Land Use Bylaw limited the total area of the building.
THE CLOCK
Because of his own personal interest in clocks, the owner asked us to provide one on the building. We took this as a challenge to incorporate a timepiece into the facade.
The passing hours are represented by the 24 LED ‘ticks’ along the parapet. There are 12 on each building face, with the north facade representing the morning, and the east facade representing the afternoon. The ticks change from dark blue to white with each passing hour.
The minutes are marked by the 60 LED ticks above the soffit of the main floor. On the hour, before all the minute ticks change back to dark blue, there is a minute-long light show where the minute ticks sparkle with a much broader spectrum.
The Architect has a description of the building on their website. They call the building Prairie Block? Quite the description but looks like the main floor is leased.
Prairie Block
FROM SMOKEOn June 6, 2017, a fire destroyed the 1950s-era one storey building in the Marda Loop commercial district in Calgary. Forty firefighters and their twelve trucks were able to keep the fire from spreading to the adjacent buildings.
Our project replaces this building with a two-storey mixed-use project that meets the goals of the local area redevelopment plan for Marda Loop to transform from a suburban commercial strip into a mixed-use urban hub.
TO SMOKE
The main floor is devoted to retail use that faces both adjacent streets, and will be occupied by a Prairie Records branded cannabis store operated by Westleaf.
The upper floor is designed to accommodate a single or multiple office tenants. Though the redevelopment plan allows for a taller building, parking minimums in Calgary’s Land Use Bylaw limited the total area of the building.
THE CLOCK
Because of his own personal interest in clocks, the owner asked us to provide one on the building. We took this as a challenge to incorporate a timepiece into the facade.
The passing hours are represented by the 24 LED ‘ticks’ along the parapet. There are 12 on each building face, with the north facade representing the morning, and the east facade representing the afternoon. The ticks change from dark blue to white with each passing hour.
The minutes are marked by the 60 LED ticks above the soffit of the main floor. On the hour, before all the minute ticks change back to dark blue, there is a minute-long light show where the minute ticks sparkle with a much broader spectrum.
UrbanWarrior
Senior Member
Wow that’s even nicer than the original. What a lovely surprise.
Edit: wait… or maybe it’s… identical? And these are just higher quality renders.
Edit: wait… or maybe it’s… identical? And these are just higher quality renders.
Mountain Man
Senior Member
I wonder how well their "clock" will work when half the LEDs are broken haha
Looks like a promising development though, would love to see more like this.
Looks like a promising development though, would love to see more like this.
adamyyc
Active Member
There’s an ATB right south of this, so I doubt it, unless ATB moves. I thought there was a banner on the fence at one point for a BMO.
Mountain Man
Senior Member
I think all the angled posts are new, otherwise looks the same.Wow that’s even nicer than the original. What a lovely surprise.
Edit: wait… or maybe it’s… identical? And these are just higher quality renders.
CalgaryTiger
Senior Member
Could that be for project financing? There are multiple CRUs... So there could be a BMO but it would be a smaller one.
haltcatchfire
Senior Member
I was just going based off the DP calling for Financial Institution and the colours/led reminded me of other ATB buildings.
haltcatchfire
Senior Member
The (lack of) space between noon and 1 o'clock is a fail.
CalgaryTiger
Senior Member
Architect's website could be out of date.
badc0ffee
Active Member
This was the SE corner of 33 Ave and 21 St SW, a little live music coffee shop (until 2006 or so), and then various Sheesha places until it burned down?
haltcatchfire
Senior Member
They have their direction wrong so confidence in the rest has weakened.