Hahaha! Thanks BKha. I have lots of ideas. I should probably day dream about fantasy city planning less. Who doesn't want a good 300m+ sky scraper towering over the skyline? I'll leave those dreams to the pros. I tend to mostly stick to stuff that's at least somewhat within the realm of possibility, but a lot of it never gets discussed. I'd love to hear what you and others would like to see for the city. The more people we have who are passionate and engaged, the better our city will become. Who knows, what may come of this discussion? At least a good day dream or two hopefully.
I've already peppered many of my dreams around the site, a C-Train loop line that goes to MRU and the hospitals, a regional train system, re-imagining the Calgary Tower as the starting point for visitors to the city, even as it loses it's place of prominence in height and better parks and plazas. I don't want to hog up all the space recapping that stuff. I will pop in a couple other ideas I have from time to time, but I don't want to just spout off endlessly. I'm sure you guys have great ideas too!
One new thing I will say isn't about a building or a construction project, is that we need a better city flag! The
current one looks like a bad 80s corporate logo. Our sister city,
Quebec City, probably has the nicest one on the continent. The Herald did
something about this recently, but I wasn't wowed by their proposals either. We have better iconography available than just the Tower and the Dome. For one, I like the idea of using a
lion couchant in
argent (white/silver) inspired by the Centre Street Bridge lions. And set it on the
gyronny pattern of Clan Campbell, that is to say, the
sable (black) and
or (yellow/gold) pinwheel pattern. I'm not a Campbell, nor of Scottish descent at all as far as I know, but Calgary is. Our namesake is on the Isle of Mull in Argyll, Scotland. The Campbells are the chief clan of Argyll and the gyronny is a symbol of the region. The only thing I can't quite figure out is where to work in some
gulles (red). It's clearly our city's colour. Maybe we could pay a little homage to our sister city and copy their wall pattern (which represents the Citadel), but make the exterior border in red and have it represent the walls of the
fort from which the city sprang.
EDIT: It would be nice to work something in that pays tribute to treaty 7 as well.
It's both traditional and unique. It happens to catch all of our cities main colours. I think It would be pretty eye catching too. I'll have to see if I can make a mock up in paint one day.