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Originally Posted by esquire
Unless I am unaware of a huge collection of these somewhere around here, I'll say that that style is extremely uncommon in Winnipeg... it must be an Alberta thing. I certainly saw a lot of it in older parts of Edmonton when I lived there.
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Yeah, I think it's more Alberta/Saskatchewan.
I'm not sure about
these infill houses Niwell posted though—they're probably no denser then what they replaced, and kind of look like the standard vinyl/faux-stone stuff going up in the Calgary burbs, the only (though significant) difference being that they don't have an attached garage, due to the prevalence of rear laneways.
But come to think of it, those foam architectural details, stucco, and fake Formastone decorative cladding IS almost the new architectural vernacular in Calgary. It's everywhere from brand-new subdivisions to the inner city.
Like this stuff: