thommyjo
Senior Member
Don’t disrespect the AUPE offices like that!!!
Tbh, can we swap these pleeeease
In the premier location of the 100th ave and Henday next to a Walmart and 2 star hotels.
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Tbh, can we swap these pleeeease
In the premier location of the 100th ave and Henday next to a Walmart and 2 star hotels.
Out of Towner
Active Member
Not a lot of difference between the cladding on the Milner and AUPE buildings. Took a closer look at the east elevation of the Milner. It's actually not good either. The north elevation is easily the best and most inviting but it fronts onto the concrete barriers of the LRT. The whole building is a joke.
thommyjo
Senior Member
But the lighting and windows make it look way classier and modern. The Milner looks like a literal scrap pile of metal.
David A
Senior Member
Yes, the main part of the AUPE building the exterior is nicely interspersed with windows which makes the metal exterior less overwhelming.
The Milner looks like a horrible pile of metal or some sort of incarceration institution. Again, who was responsible for this mess? We need to name names and shame them!
The only way things will improve is if those who perpetrate such an embarrassment on us will know they can not get away with it and slink into anonymity. There is no improvement without accountability.
IanO
Superstar
Gus Haynes
Active Member
^What are we looking at here?
archited
Senior Member
Good Question...
kcantor
Senior Member
^ ^^
That's the Edmonton Northwest Police Campus, interestingly enough brought to - several years late due to construction/design issues - by the same architectural firm that did the library.
www.teeplearch.com
That's the Edmonton Northwest Police Campus, interestingly enough brought to - several years late due to construction/design issues - by the same architectural firm that did the library.
Edmonton Police Service Northwest Campus | Teeple Architects
The core inspiration for the Northwest Campus project was the Edmonton Police Service’s (EPS) decision to integrate, for the first time, previously dispersed functions in a single, community-focused facility. The intent of the design was both to provide EPS with the infrastructure it needs to...
www.teeplearch.com
Gus Haynes
Active Member
Thanks, Ken!
JNO1
Active Member
Imagine, at a minimum, if we could have just swapped the two. I would take this, over what we got on Churchill square, all day long. <Very heavy sigh>
IanO
Superstar
For me it is less about swapping and more about priorities as a city.
Certainly we want and need a top notch EPS training centre, but when it looks better than your primary library on your main public square because you had to VE it to death versus 120mil for a rather striking building in the middle of nowhere... that says something.
Certainly we want and need a top notch EPS training centre, but when it looks better than your primary library on your main public square because you had to VE it to death versus 120mil for a rather striking building in the middle of nowhere... that says something.
NicolBolas
New Member
The downtown library is a symbol of mediocrity that most Edmonton projects unfortunately fall into.
SarcasticMarmot
Active Member
I mean, it is an accurate representation of who really has a control of city hall.
kcantor
Senior Member
It’s not a matter of who has control of city hall. It’s a matter of delegating design decisions and approvals to individuals who, as a previous city councillor admitted, “can’t read a set of drawings” and architects who enable them.
And locally it’s not just the downtown library (Hall D and the new RAM are other examples) and it’s not just government either (and there’s no lack of private sector examples).
Stevey_G
Active Member
Don't these people get 3rd party consulting? Even if I can read as-builts and construction drawing's I'd still want to hire some guru to help give a fresh opinion to me.