[Jimby]

It has been a rainy June. The long building in the foreground is the City of Calgary Water Centre which houses the water dept.

http://content.calgary.ca/CCA/City+Hall/Business+Units/Water+Services/Construction+Projects/Water+Centre/Water+Centre.htm

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May 25, the Elbow River flooded the bike path. No big deal, but there is still the threat of more flooding. Fish Creek in south Calgary is flooding tonight June 11.


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an old synagogue that has been turned into condos

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Rouleauville Square which honours the original Francophone clergy and settlers in the Mission area


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CP Rail main line, this track goes across Canada and through downtown Calgary

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Crack Mac's


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I thought the cigarette butt was a nice touch!


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It never rains in the Bay arcade...


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looking up at Bankers Hall west tower

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after you buy at Crack Mac's, then this is where you'll want to hang out. It is a free CTrain ride to get here from the other side of downtown


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Friday night on the mall


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I spy an office worker in a window on the left, working late on a Friday


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CTrain

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The Bay

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insurance pyramid scheme?

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The Winner by J. Seward Johnson Jr.


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trouble?

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they have since fixed the sign

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Calgary has 635 kms of paved bike paths. They aren't all this flat. This one goes beside the canal to Chestermere which is almost 40 kms round trip depending on where you start.


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we were out cycling and we noticed a growing plume of black smoke. It was a tire fire at a junkyard. This is where the canal to Chestermere starts from the Bow river. The brightly coloured building in the middle of the pic is twin hockey arenas called the Max Bell Arenas. Once I was given a note at work to call a friend who worked as a Zamboni driver at the Max Bell Arena and the girl who took the message was a little confused because she said I was to call the Mac's Ballerina!!!


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a cuppola that was saved from the demolished James Short school


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at the Elbow River Casino


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the razor's edge of the Nexen building

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Sun Life Plaza, the International Hotel, and BP Place reflected in Fifth Avenue Place west tower


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8 crane view


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looking north on Scarth Street


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on the left is the Dominion Bank Building, now a fine restaurant called Teatro. Straight ahead is the Calgary Public Building which is incorporated into the Epcor Centre for the Performing Arts which has 4 theatres. The lobby of the building is the lobby for the Jack Singer Concert Hall. Upstairs are City of Calgary offices. The elevator is the last elevator in Calgary with an elevator operator.


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The Burns building anchors the other end of the Epcor Centre for the Performing Arts on Olympic Plaza. The left side of the building is original and the right side is a 1980s addition. The building contains the offices of Gibbs Gage Architects.


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looking across Olympic Plaza at Rocky Mountain Court condos and Rocky Mountain Plaza where the U.S. Consulate is.


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new city hall from Olympic Plaza


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looking west on east bound Fifth Avenue


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puddle, I turned the image around

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Budget Rent A Car with the Bow site behind

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north side of the Bow site

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south side of the Bow site

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all pics by me, thanks for having a look

[entheosfog]

Fantastic set! Nice to see some old buildings being represented in there.
And good to see the rain hasn't been slowing your picture-taking down at all!

[artvandelay]

Outstanding set living! :worship:

Love this shot:

CTrain
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[ummagumma66]

Awesome set. Really nice shots, one thing, how did you get on the CPR tracks?

[Ayreonaut]

A fine compilation indeed living. :tup:

[Jimby]

Thanks EF! As long as the rain drops don't soak my camera, I'm good to go. I think "weather" makes the pics more interesting.

Thanks Art! I like the new red wavy ribbon on the new CTrains, I was lucky a new train happened by at the time.

Thanks Officer Ummagumma, I... uhhhh... just walked through the parking lot and all of a sudden I was on the tracks. I was surprised there is no fence, just a ramp type slope, it looks like cars park there during the day.
I thought it was a different view of the Palliser South, OneTen, and Keynote construction.
I'm too old and fat to be hopping fences, I might get high-centered!


Thanks Ayreonaut!

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Poon McKenzie Architects/Giffels

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Cohos Evamy Architects and Worley Parsons Engineering

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Palliser South

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[ltsmotorsport]

Great perspectives.

[Kingofthehill]

Great perspectives and scope, too.

Calgary has some of the fine examples of Modern architecture, too.

[flar]

Nice shots!

[wisla_krakow]

these are great photos. thanks a lot!

[Bergenser]

Calgary is beautiful!
Thanks for the pictures.

[sync]

great shots!

[photophan]

Dear Living,

Seeing this thread made me appreciate the pictures of Calgary in the rain even more than your previous postings. The puddles and the light are truly extraordinary. There were several that I thought were really beautiful. Thanks for sharing your talent!

[Top Of The Park]

great shots, but not enough cranes :haha:

[ummagumma66]

LOL!...Still an awesome set, I wish CT would use the red wavy stripe on the entire fleet...but thats a rant for a different thread.

[IntotheWest]

Great shots! I love checking out your photos, it helps show different perspectives on this great city that some of us don't stop to notice...can't wait to see more!

[CapitalCity]

Great pics!

[LAsam]

All those beautiful modern skyscrapers... and the US Consulate is a big ugly brutalist concrete block... what's the symbolism here? You make Calgary look like a place well worth a visit. Thanks for posting!

[America 117]

wow
what a boom town!!
i heard it is really becoming a major city.

[DLLB]

Great series Living. A great depiction of the downtown area.

I agree with you, different types of weather and especially rain, make for very interesting pictures.

[OhioGuy]

Fantastic photos! I agree with the others that the weather actually adds an extra element to the photos. You definitely have good photo skills, livingforthecity. :tup:

[Jimby]

Thanks everyone for your comments.
Here are a few pics of some of the construction projects going on.
For more info on any Calgary projects, check out Boris' excellent front page of the Calgary Construction thread with a list of projects.

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=151592


Eighth Avenue Place gets a crane (former Penny Lane). Our second billion dollar office project.
BIG PIC scroll right>

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EAP with new Opus 8 office building in blue and Canada's largest court house, the new Calgary Courts Centre in green

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EAP with Gateway Midtown cranes (twin condo towers) with Castello condos behind

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Riverfront Pointe 3 condo towers

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Westgate Park, 2 out of 3 towers


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arriVa 1, the first of 3 towers. The other 2 will be at least 10 floors higher.
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Strategic on 4th Street

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Centrium


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Chinook Centre expansion

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Stampede Station 1 and Sasso/Vetro and Nuera construction

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Centennial Place, 5 cranes. 23 and 41 floor office towers going up at the same time.

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8 West office

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Xenex condos

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Union Square and Colours condos, and the Gallery at Hotel Arts

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Jamieson Place, 38 floor office

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Bankers Court

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[Surrealplaces]

Great pictures Living! That shot of Centrium with its lights glowing is really nice :tup:

[Evo5Boise]

Great photos. That is one city I want to visit.

[Jimby]

Thanks everyone for your kind comments.
Thanks Flar for being the only person in all of eastern Canada to comment on my photos.

[Henry07]

wow, these are some really nice pics!! amazing. good job on capturing our city with some amazing photos!!

[10101000]

Good job

[tarapoto]

Haha, I remember installing window film in a condo near the Talisman Centre right by the Elbow river when it was flooding a couple years ago, I guess it would have been June of '05 or '06 and the bike path was underwater and everybody turned around when they saw it was underwater except one guy wasn't paying attention and drove his bike straight into the river, it was funny (because it wasn't very deep under water but he got soaked!) I laughed my arse off