CALGARY | Guardian | 469FT | 41 FLOORS - Page 3

Bigtime · #41 Posted **Mar 20, 2013, 9:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by Surrealplaces

I'll be going past there on Friday. I'm hoping to see some action and maybe snap a few pics.

I'm harassing my sister to start emailing me a weekly shot from her balcony (my former condo) next door.

Once I start getting them I will post here too!

Surrealplaces · #42 Posted **Mar 20, 2013, 9:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by Bigtime

I'm harassing my sister to start emailing me a weekly shot from her balcony (my former condo) next door.

Once I start getting them I will post here too!

Awesome! I can harass too if you'd like lol!

Design-mind · #43 Posted **Mar 20, 2013, 10:24 PM**

mine from today.

Surrealplaces · #44 Posted **Mar 22, 2013, 3:13 PM**

^^ Quite a bit has happened since the last time I saw an aerial view of Guardian. Thanks for posting!

Surrealplaces · #45 Posted **Mar 23, 2013, 7:15 PM**

Guardian by Calgary Construction 9, on Flickr

Surrealplaces · #46 Posted **Mar 23, 2013, 7:16 PM**

Guardian by Calgary Construction 9, on Flickr

Design-mind · #47 Posted **Mar 25, 2013, 9:51 PM**

from today. Not much different.

Surrealplaces · #48 Posted **Mar 26, 2013, 3:03 PM**

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Originally Posted by Design-mind

from today. Not much different.

Nice to see those forms getting built!

Design-mind · #49 Posted **Mar 26, 2013, 3:13 PM**

Agree once this podium gets built we can start to see this one rise quickly! The exciting part!

gretzky12 · #50 Posted **Mar 26, 2013, 3:48 PM**

There are more levels of parking above grade, on top of the ground level townhouses. The typical suite floors don't start until level 7. So it will be a bit slow at first. The podium up to level 6 is joined between the two buildings. The two towers rise separately starting at level 7.

Bigtime · #51 Posted **Mar 26, 2013, 3:54 PM**

Are they building the entire podium for both towers at once? Or phasing it?

gretzky12 · #52 Posted **Mar 27, 2013, 1:31 PM**

The North Tower and podium are phase A, the south tower will be phase B. So the entire podium will be done before the tower is full height, however it's just a matter of logistics as to when the south half of the podium will be complete.

Surrealplaces · #53 Posted **Mar 28, 2013, 7:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by gretzky12

The North Tower and podium are phase A, the south tower will be phase B. So the entire podium will be done before the tower is full height, however it's just a matter of logistics as to when the south half of the podium will be complete.

Thanks for the info Gretzky! I'm glad to see the podium get fully built out. It makes for much better chances of the second tower going ahead sooner.

Gretzky....do you know how many floors the tower will be? The DP had 41 floors, but the website says 44 floors. Just wondering if they amended the DP?

gretzky12 · #54 Posted **Apr 1, 2013, 1:19 PM**

Current plans have the top residential floor as 43, however that could be called 44 if they end up skipping floor 13. Then on top of that of course there are the 2 mechanical penthouse floors.

TallBob · #55 Posted **Apr 1, 2013, 2:16 PM**

That could push it close to 500'! Nice.... Need some more of this size!

Surrealplaces · #56 Posted **Apr 1, 2013, 9:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by gretzky12

Current plans have the top residential floor as 43, however that could be called 44 if they end up skipping floor 13. Then on top of that of course there are the 2 mechanical penthouse floors.

Thanks Gretzky! Any idea what the official height is? I submitted a height of 469' as was mentioned on the DP, but I believe that is inaccurate as it also had the number of floors at 41.

Design-mind · #57 Posted **Apr 2, 2013, 9:52 PM**

mine from today. Lots of rebar going in.

Bigtime · #58 Posted **Apr 2, 2013, 11:19 PM**

Timelapse of the crane being assembled:

• Video Link

Surrealplaces · #59 Posted **Apr 3, 2013, 4:01 AM**

^Very cool!

Bigtime · #60 Posted **Apr 4, 2013, 5:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by Surrealplaces

Thanks Gretzky! Any idea what the official height is? I submitted a height of 469' as was mentioned on the DP, but I believe that is inaccurate as it also had the number of floors at 41.

So I asked the Guardian twitter account what the official height of the building will be, just got a response:

"Highest point of the building will be 146m or 479.5ft"