What do you think of this project?

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Offworld said:
It absolutely needs to be tall. Otherwise, it'll be consumed by its surroundings and become nondescript.
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Tall would be nice, but a high quality shorter high-rise or even a midrise could become much more of a landmark and create much more interest from a street view perspective than an uninspired tall building.

I'd trade a 50 story glass box for a 20 story architectural masterpiece any day of the week.

I love tall buildings as much as the next guy in this forum, but I do feel like as I grow older I care a lot less for what the city looks from afar than about how it looks and feels when you're actually on the streets.
 
Offworld said:
It absolutely needs to be tall. Otherwise, it'll be consumed by its surroundings and become nondescript.
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To clarify I am thinking on the taller end of the definition of mid rise,, so 12-15 stories here. We need to see this developed in a great way, but expecting Edmonton to suddenly pop up another 40-50 story building just doesn’t seem realistic.

Great architecture doesn’t get lost if it’s not tall. Hell, this forum would go crazy to have Tegler back on this corner, and it wasn’t tall. We have ample space to develop downtown, very little of it is going to be developed over 15-20 stories in my opinion.
 
Oilguy said:
To clarify I am thinking on the taller end of the definition of mid rise,, so 12-15 stories here. We need to see this developed in a great way, but expecting Edmonton to suddenly pop up another 40-50 story building just doesn’t seem realistic.

Great architecture doesn’t get lost if it’s not tall. Hell, this forum would go crazy to have Tegler back on this corner, and it wasn’t tall. We have ample space to develop downtown, very little of it is going to be developed over 15-20 stories in my opinion.
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I'm not for tall, for tall's sake. I'm saying that anything like a mid-rise would get swallowed by its surroundings and feel claustrophobic. As a residential site, that'd be oppressive.
 
ChazYEG said:
Tall would be nice, but a high quality shorter high-rise or even a midrise could become much more of a landmark and create much more interest from a street view perspective than an uninspired tall building.

I'd trade a 50 story glass box for a 20 story architectural masterpiece any day of the week.

I love tall buildings as much as the next guy in this forum, but I do feel like as I grow older I care a lot less for what the city looks from afar than about how it looks and feels when you're actually on the streets.
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Agreed. Tall is so ... 2010! I have said this on the Calgary forum before as well, but I too would trade a 50 storey tower for a 20 storey nice one, or even a 50 storey tower for 8 x 6 storey buildings with nice streetscapes.
 
thommyjo said:
I’m good with midrises in some areas. But really want to see this be a 30-45 story beast. Such a good location.

Mixed use hotel and residential please. Somebody convince Truman to come on up here once they’re done the 25 projects they’re doing in Calgary.
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Truman would be nice but an Edmonton grown builder/developer might serve us just as well. Whereas Calgary has seen builders like Truman and Jayman evolve and step up their game, we are seeing similar evolution from the likes of Rohit and Cantiro. Here's hoping that whoever takes this on is ambitious and well capitalized. The caveat being that the current owners actually have to sell at a reasonable rate and the City is especially accommodating of construction at this constrained site.
 
When I saw the picture that @TAS posted here, I just had to.
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