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Beautiful!
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REALLY, REALLY BEAUTIFUL!!!!!
That's one of the nicest cities in North America. Great photos too!!! :cheers::cheers::cheers: |
The first photo of the skyline is awesome, great angle.
Calgary, at least in these pics seem so shiny, new & well-manicured that IMO it feels like it's missing something...I can't quite put my finger on it. :???: Don't get me wrong though, the city looks great. :cheers: |
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checkout this thread to see all of Canada's skylines, http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...22250&page=399 |
Nice pictures!
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Nice pics and thread about Calgary but this :
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/924/eEuGll.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/924/eEuGll.jpg Oh Lordy ! :worship: It was a pleasure viewing this thread. Thanks! |
Skyline of Calgary need a supertall, well make them two.
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Great architecture, both the old and the skyscrapers. Calgary looks very clean and well organized.
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Very impressive skyline for a city its size. I will say that with the exception of the Bow, the skyline is nondescript. This is true for most Canadian cities. In fact the only Canadian city with a U. S. style skyline (which I prefer) with several unique buildings is Montreal. Just my opinion.
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1) DT is land constrained as is the inner city. DT proper is a triangle with river on two sides and train tracks on the other. The Calgary area is bowl shaped with the inner city at the bottom. The hills surrounding the inner city are a semi barrier. 2) Oil and gas companies used to have a competitive advantage in locating close to the land titles office, so most wanted to be within walking distance. Land titles have long been electronic but the culture persists 3) The oil and gas industry is highly collaborative. Companies tend to cluster so that employees in oil and gas, engineering and finance can easily meet face to face. This is changing 4) Calgary has US level GDP with an outsized corporate sector, meaning much higher than average demand for office space 5) inner city Calgary was never dangerous or perceived as such. While inner city multifamily never really caught on until the 1990's that was more due to highly affordable SFH in the suburbs. Affordability and traffic got much worse in the 2000's so inner city residential became more attractive 6) Prior to office towers, most of inner city calgary was SFH, so it was comparatively easy to redevelop 7) Inner city Calgary had few significant heritage or institutional buildings like a university to work around. The towers have less impediment to clustering. DT is probably unique in having next to no institutional buildings, which tend to be low rise 8) Southern AB is sparsely populated due to developing after the railway Era and was based on ranching and dryland farming. There were few small towns around Calgary that could have become suburbs 9) Calgary annexed all of its then suburbs in the 1960's. More distant towns started to grow rapidly in the 1990's which will likely break down the unicity model 10) Calgary has a poor freeway system mostly because it grew after the freeway construction booms of the 1950's and 60's. Most of the freeway proposals from the 1960's were never built due to community opposition and fiscally conservative governments than resisted funding. Inner city freeways would have been tough to build due to the the rivers and hills 11) Calgary started to limit dt parking in the 1970's which pushed parking rates to some of the highest in NA 12) Calgary introduced its light rail system when the regional population was under 600K, in 1981 The skyline also tends to look big due to topography. From virtually any vantage, one looks down on the skyline. |
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^ Another Thank You to Doug for the interesting write-up on Calgary!
Back in the mid-1990's I was in Vancouver, BC on business and was talking with commercial real estate brokers about differences between Canadian cities. I recall one telling me that the average size office lease in downtown Vancouver was about 20,000 square feet, whereas the average size lease in Calgary was close to 200,000 sf (or some proportion that was generally similar). The difference is that Calgary was a corporate HQ city, especially in the energy sector. Vancouver, by contrast (at least then), was more of a branch office city. I don't know if this is still true, but I always found that fascinating. |
Calgary: a city of 1.4 million metro population, with the skyline of a city with 5 million metro population.
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Extremely impressed.
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Calgary went from frontier oil town to corporate headquarter city very quickly. A ton of towers went up but not much attention was paid to architecture, the public realm, or building a place that functions after 5pm. There's not much of a residential population downtown; it's one office after the next with a small retail strip and a big underground mall. I don't think Calgarians actually go downtown other than for work. They go to the neighbourhood south of the rail line. The Beltline??? Calgary has started to put more emphasis on quality architecture and so far has 3 great looking new towers to show for it. The Bow, Brookfield, and Telus Sky are fabulous. Love love love Telus Sky. Next they need to build a sizable resident population right in the downtown. 100,000 people living downtown will do wonders for the vibrancy of the area. With more residents comes more retail, more restaurants, and more pressure to improve the public realm (sidewalks, trees, benches, etc.) I found most of the downtown streets surprisingly shabby/unattractive. I hope my criticism doesn't come off as harsh. I liked Calgary and think it has a very bright future. I just think the downtown needs more time to come together. Start building condos and I don't mean in the Beltline! |
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