Sunnyside is on a roll! The nice thing about proposals in Sunnyside/Hillhurst is that even in a downturn they have a chance. The neighbourhood is desirable and the projects aren't large in scale.
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Looks like another project in the works for Sunnyside, close to the LRT and 10th Street:
https://developmentmap.calgary.ca/#property/LOC2017-0091
Still early days and just a land use application right now, but a DC based upon M-H1 would likely allow something of significant size. From the Land Use Bylaw:
Division 8: Multi-Residential – High Density Low Rise (M-H1) (M-H1f#h#d#) District
Purpose
635 The Multi-Residential – High Density Low Rise District:
(a) is intended to provide for Multi-Residential Development in the Developed Area and the Developing Area;
(b) has Multi-Residential Development that will provide development with higher numbers of Dwelling Units and traffic generation;
(c) provides for Multi-Residential Development in a variety of forms;
(d) has tall Multi-Residential Development with high density;
(e) has Multi-Residential Development where intensity is measured by floor area ratio to provide flexibility in building form and Dwelling Unit size and number;
(f) is intended to be typically located at community nodes and transit and transportation corridors and nodes;
(g) requires that Multi-Residential Development achieves a minimum density;
(h) includes a limited range of support commercial multi-residential uses, restricted in size and location within the building;
(i) provides outdoor space for social interaction; and
(j) provides landscaping to complement the design of the development and to help screen and buffer elements of the development that may have impacts on residents or nearby parcels.
They also did the re-zoning for the 13 houses along memorial drive that Anthem is now planning their 90ish unit project on.
Old science centre was accessible too. This one doesn't even have a sidewalk to the LRT station. Terrible urban design all around. And we wonder why downtown vibrancy is an issue when we move destinations outside the core and make them completely inaccessible.So I recently went to Telus Spark for the first time since it opened. Man what a let down and huge disappointment that building is. I always envisioned science centres to be very unique buildings that are supposed to trigger creativity and imagination. This thing is literally the most sterile and boring box you can imagine.
The outside is literally gray sheet metal surrounded in some sort of silver perforated metal siding. There is no colour whatsoever and very little glass. it actually looks incomplete as I have no idea what the purpose of the metal perforated metal siding is for. It has no function from what I can tell.
The inside is just as bland and sterile. Nothing to invoke awe and wonder. It is basically an office building with some exhibits. Painfully corporate looking and nothing visually to look at. White and grey are the theme colours.
The exhibits themselves are rather boring and many are not functioning properly. The only decent thing was the theatre which has very good picture quality.
Overall I am not impressed and would never go back again. Waste of money. The old science centre was more visually appealing and actually looked ahead of its time and futuristic. This building doesn't even live up to the original bland renderings that at least had colour and a facade that changes appearance. I would honestly demolish this thing.
Much nicer than what's currently there!Redevelopment of Century Gardens Park is on the CPC agenda for next week. Item 5.2, starting on page 143. Not much else of interest though in the agenda. There are some colour renderings of the proposed park design:
http://www.calgary.ca/PDA/pd/Docume...ommission/agenda/2017/agenda-cpc-april-06.pdf
Redevelopment of Century Gyouardens Park is on the CPC agenda for next week. Item 5.2, starting on page 143. Not much else of interest though in the agenda. There are some colour renderings of the proposed park design:
http://www.calgary.ca/PDA/pd/Docume...ommission/agenda/2017/agenda-cpc-april-06.pdf
So I recently went to Telus Spark for the first time since it opened. Man what a let down and huge disappointment that building is. I always envisioned science centres to be very unique buildings that are supposed to trigger creativity and imagination. This thing is literally the most sterile and boring box you can imagine.
The outside is literally gray sheet metal surrounded in some sort of silver perforated metal siding. There is no colour whatsoever and very little glass. it actually looks incomplete as I have no idea what the purpose of the metal perforated metal siding is for. It has no function from what I can tell.
The inside is just as bland and sterile. Nothing to invoke awe and wonder. It is basically an office building with some exhibits. Painfully corporate looking and nothing visually to look at. White and grey are the theme colours.
The exhibits themselves are rather boring and many are not functioning properly. The only decent thing was the theatre which has very good picture quality.
Overall I am not impressed and would never go back again. Waste of money. The old science centre was more visually appealing and actually looked ahead of its time and futuristic. This building doesn't even live up to the original bland renderings that at least had colour and a facade that changes appearance. I would honestly demolish this thing.