Historical Winnipeg discussion - Page 131

Authentic_City · #**2601** Posted **Feb 25, 2019, 4:03 PM**

Interesting Free Press feature on historic pillars and gates around Winnipeg. Quite a few that I didn't know about.

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/mu...506122431.html

1ajs · #**2602** Posted **Feb 26, 2019, 6:16 AM**

1961

interesting... theres a building at albert and bannatyne in 1961 where theres currently a parking lot

trueviking · #**2603** Posted **Feb 26, 2019, 9:15 PM**

ywgwalk · #**2604** Posted **Feb 26, 2019, 9:24 PM**

Would be nice to restore the street edge along Main in front of the Pantages...

BubberMiley · #**2605** Posted **Feb 26, 2019, 9:44 PM**

Aren't they putting a Noam Gonick tipped-over streetcar sculpture there to commemorate 100th anniversary of the 1919 strike?

Curmudgeon · #**2606** Posted **Feb 26, 2019, 10:00 PM**

The Civic Centre/PSB complex is even more horrific from the air than it is from the ground. It really looks like something in pre-1990s Novosibirsk that would house the local politburo and KGB. Perhaps it should be fenced in with barbed wire.

drew · #**2607** Posted **Feb 26, 2019, 10:05 PM**

The 1950s really sucked.

esquire · #**2608** Posted **Feb 27, 2019, 2:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by BubberMiley

Aren't they putting a Noam Gonick tipped-over streetcar sculpture there to commemorate 100th anniversary of the 1919 strike?

Oh geez, I forgot about that. So there goes any chance of having a proper building on that site built right up to the corner.

Biff · #**2609** Posted **Feb 27, 2019, 2:21 PM**

There is still a good amount of room on site for a building to go (approx 9-10,000 sq ft). It is just the corner that will be reserved for the sculpture. I am hoping for a nice 6-8 storey condo building to compliment/contrast with the Confederation Building.

esquire · #**2610** Posted **Feb 27, 2019, 2:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by Biff

There is still a good amount of room on site for a building to go (approx 9-10,000 sq ft). It is just the corner that will be reserved for the sculpture. I am hoping for a nice 6-8 storey condo building to compliment/contrast with the Confederation Building.

That would be the ideal, IMO. I would like to see something equal to Confed in height (so maybe around 12 storeys, with 2 floors of commercial at the base with 10 storeys of condo), but shorter would be OK too.

That is a site where quality design should be a key consideration. I have no problem with relatively cheap filler buildings like 98 Market when they're shunted off to sites with little prominence, but Market and Main should be a cut above that level.

I'm not saying it should necessarily look like this building, but it should have the elegant, high quality feel that 700 Sussex projects:

Biff · #**2611** Posted **Feb 27, 2019, 4:04 PM**

Just for comparison, both 390 on the River and Alt Hotel tower have floor plates just over 6,000 sq ft and Tower 2 at TNS in around 10,000 sq ft. So you could put a nice sized building in the 9,000ish sq ft area remaining on the site leaving room for the sculpture....you could even cantilever!

drew · #**2612** Posted **Feb 27, 2019, 4:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by Biff

Just for comparison, both 390 on the River and Alt Hotel tower have floor plates just over 6,000 sq ft and Tower 2 at TNS in around 10,000 sq ft. So you could put a nice sized building in the 9,000ish sq ft area remaining on the site leaving room for the sculpture....you could even cantilever!

You take that back Biff!

trueviking · #**2613** Posted **Feb 27, 2019, 5:59 PM**

more cantilevers.

wardlow · #**2614** Posted **Feb 27, 2019, 9:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

Oh geez, I forgot about that. So there goes any chance of having a proper building on that site built right up to the corner.

The best part of this memorial is that the goons that tried to tip over the streetcar in 1919 (because nothing says 'stick it to the elites' like destroying a public transportation vehicle?) didn't even succeed in tipping it all the way over.

OTA in Winnipeg · #**2615** Posted **Feb 27, 2019, 9:50 PM**

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Originally Posted by trueviking

more cantilevers.

Off topic but check this out:

https://www.rt.com/business/452542-c...raper-crystal/

drew · #**2616** Posted **Feb 27, 2019, 10:44 PM**

pfft. Look at the back-span available on that sideways skyscraper. That's beginner level cantilever.

Ando · #**2617** Posted **Feb 28, 2019, 2:04 AM**

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Originally Posted by wardlow

The best part of this memorial is that the goons that tried to tip over the streetcar in 1919 (because nothing says 'stick it to the elites' like destroying a public transportation vehicle?) didn't even succeed in tipping it all the way over.

Uh, wouldn’t the best part of the memorial rather be to memorialize an historic event, the struggle that was going on between different opposing groups in society in early part of the twentieth century? It is based on a historic photo, it’s a symbol.

BigG · #**2618** Posted **Feb 28, 2019, 3:18 PM**

Stumbled across this video on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZI5jv0gvm0

1ajs · #**2619** Posted **Mar 13, 2019, 2:48 AM**

this aparently was on north main known as the Showboat restaurant then later a used car dealer then a mobile home sales center

DancingDuck · #**2620** Posted **Mar 13, 2019, 4:12 AM**

Looks like a fantastic to get murdered in