_urbanite
Senior Member
This is what the water feature outside the natural pool at Borden Park currently looks like. This is only what, 5-6 years old?
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IanO
Superstar
What in the absolute patina is this trying to achieve? Brutal.
Habibfazil
Active Member
The city is great for funding new projects, upkeep, maintenance, not so good...
Barnaby
Active Member
MacLac
Senior Member
Is there supposed to be fountains in there somewhere? Or just stagnant swamps? Isn’t this mirrored to what the actual pool is? Organic filtering of the pool water? Wonder what the water in there looks like now in this heat?
_urbanite
Senior Member
It was a fountain and garden, independent of the pools filtration system. It was a nice spot at one point, visited it once before when it was in working condition. Found these renderings of it.
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BORDEN — Life is not symmetrical........keep dreaming
September 25, 2014 Paris, Sunday September 21.......really? Families picknicking, some tourists strolling, lolling figures on the grass amongst the leaves and dappled light, a meet-up scavenger hunt.......people dashing to check behind the sculptures...................
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Gronk!
Senior Member
Victoria Promenade
Gronk!
Senior Member
Dantzer's Folly
MacLac
Senior Member
I didn’t know the Promenade had a “water feature!”
_urbanite
Senior Member
northlands
Senior Member
Another good example of procurement being bizarrely delayed in this city. I get this is a relatively simple project but they're saying opening this year will be "weather permitting" -- or they could have procured and mobilized a contractor a month earlier and it'd be all but a guarantee. I really don't get the logic behind this.
IanO
Superstar
Bingo. Edmonton has a very clear construction window/season and needs to be procured and tendered in such a way to best take advantage of these windows.
YEG imagineer
Active Member
Noticed these a few weeks ago while biking in Mackinnon ravine. Anybody know what they are? There is also a pole with a solar panel further on but nothing seemingly getting powered.
SarcasticMarmot
Active Member
That looks very much like a pair of Bat Houses.
scyeg
Active Member
Yep. I've also seen them at MacTaggart Sanctuary.