[MCXavierL]

BP:

Permit Date

Mar 24, 2022

Permit Type
Commercial Final
Address

7260 - ADA BOULEVARD NW

Description

To construct a 3 storey Assembly Use Building (c/w 2 level underground parkade(F3)) - Concordia University of Edmonton, New Academic Building(NAB).

Construction Value

$25,677,621

 

[Avenuer]

 

[archited]

^^^^ Institutionality at its best. The 1950s are suing for copyright infringement.

 

[ChazYEG]

^^^^ Institutionality at its best. The 1950s are suing for copyright infringement.

It is an institutional building, you know?
And hell, what is wrong with the 1950s, anyways? Far better than a lot of newer stuff out there.

 

[CplKlinger]

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I'm liking those big windows!

 

[archited]

It is an institutional building, you know?

No duh!!!

And hell, what is wrong with the 1950s, anyways? Far better than a lot of newer stuff out there.

And so with one sad opinion, mediocrity lives on.

 

[ChazYEG]

No duh!!!

Not sure... sometimes the obvious seems to escape people.

And so with one sad opinion, mediocrity lives on.

At least it actually lives outside of the realm of daydreaming.

 

[archited]

Daydreams are golden -- otherwise we are nothing more than colonies of ants! Speaking of which, ants could have come up with this solution.

 

[Avenuer]

^^^^ Institutionality at its best. The 1950s are suing for copyright infringement.

That is fine for a small university building and also, the 1950s were a wonderful decade for architecture. How could you hate on Mid Century Modern? Internationalism?

 

[ChazYEG]

That is fine for a small university building and also, the 1950s were a wonderful decade for architecture. How could you hate on Mid Century Modern? Internationalism?

He's hoping we'll start building more like Star Trek's United Federation, I guess.

 

[RH van der Rohe]

^^^^ Institutionality at its best. The 1950s are suing for copyright infringement.

This is a great compliment.

 

[archited]

This is a great compliment.

Finally, someone who gets it!

 

[archited]

He's hoping we'll start building more like Star Trek's United Federation, I guess.

Keep guessing!

 

[MacLac]

https://majorprojects.alberta.ca/details/New-Academic-Building-Concordia-University/10562

 

[MacLac]

How is this progressing? Can't remember the last time I was on 112th ave.