Telus Sky | 221 M / 725 FT | 58 FLOORS - Page 4

Chadillaccc · #61 Posted **Mar 26, 2014, 4:01 AM**

Honestly, I'd rather Eau Claire I get built over any supertall. Getting the Eau Claire development going in absolutely imperative!

Govertical · #62 Posted **Mar 26, 2014, 5:05 AM**

I completely agree Chad!, first Eau Claire and then a supertall. Can't someone give the tenants a 14 day notice or something?!, I don't think I've ever been so anxious to see a project get going since the Bow!!!

TallBob · #63 Posted **Mar 26, 2014, 7:54 AM**

If your referring to the Eau Claire Market site.... I can definetely wait! I'd be willing to bet most forumers on here doesn't relly care about a super-tall, 300+ meter. But most I think would like to see a couple in the 275-280 meter mark. Starting to get a "Flat-Top" skyline, with a downward slope going west.

Spring2008 · #64 Posted **Mar 26, 2014, 3:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

300 metres is massive outside the Indian Ocean and China

Oxford is currently working with Foster in Toronto which unfortunately means the IOL site has a decent chance of being the same.

Unfortunately? I'd take another Foster here, no question! Guess this means there are potentially two Foster projects in the works here...

Full Mountain · #65 Posted **Mar 26, 2014, 3:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by Spring2008

Unfortunately? I'd take another Foster here, no question! Guess this means there are potentially two Foster projects in the works here...

I think the unfortunate part is that we'd end up with a twin of a tower in TO. Probably a shorter twin too.

Spring2008 · #66 Posted **Mar 26, 2014, 3:57 PM**

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Originally Posted by Full Mountain

I think the unfortunate part is that we'd end up with a twin of a tower in TO. Probably a shorter twin too.

Maybe they'd get the shorter twin! jj, yeah, that'd be kind of weird. Hopefully that doesn't happen.

O-tacular · #67 Posted **Mar 26, 2014, 3:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by Full Mountain

I think the unfortunate part is that we'd end up with a twin of a tower in TO. Probably a shorter twin too.

If it looked like their proposal there as a single tower I'd be happy!

Full Mountain · #68 Posted **Mar 26, 2014, 4:03 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

If it looked like their proposal there as a single tower I'd be happy!

you have a link?

Chadillaccc · #69 Posted **Mar 26, 2014, 6:14 PM**

He's talking about Oxford Place.

http://oxfordplace.ca/

Full Mountain · #70 Posted **Mar 26, 2014, 7:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

He's talking about Oxford Place.

http://oxfordplace.ca/

One supertall like that? Yes, please is there a petition that I can sign?

H.E.Pennypacker · #71 Posted **Mar 26, 2014, 7:10 PM**

Would take a twin of a building in another city over both twins side by side in Calgary on this IOL site .. Hope it's 1 tall tower

Full Mountain · #72 Posted **Mar 26, 2014, 7:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by H.E.Pennypacker

Would take a twin of a building in another city over both twins side by side in Calgary on this IOL site .. Hope it's 1 tall tower

Looking at that parcel, you'd end up with two very skinny twins

or one with a more typical floor plate.

Amsterdamned · #73 Posted **Mar 26, 2014, 8:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

I think my issue is that before it looked very ethereal and airy. Now with the solid black lines it looks heavier and less elegant. It also detracts from seeing it as one sculptural form, into a grid pattern of boxes. Some may actually like that, but to me it's the equivalent of American sportscasters drawing circles around the puck in hockey games as if it was too hard for the audience to see it on their own.

Great point and great comparison!

WhipperSnapper · #74 Posted **Mar 26, 2014, 9:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by Spring2008

Unfortunately? I'd take another Foster here, no question! Guess this means there are potentially two Foster projects in the works here...

I was making a funny. Just sayin' our national developers do have a habit of using architects in bulk. See Westbank and BIG or CF and Adrian Smith.

DizzyEdge · #75 Posted **Mar 26, 2014, 10:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by Amsterdamned

Great point and great comparison!

Agree completely

Neon_Xeon · #76 Posted **Mar 26, 2014, 11:37 PM**

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Originally Posted by Calgarian

I would be amazed if anything happens with the IOL site in the next 5 years. Calgary can't keep absorbing space like this, we aren't New York. That being said, we are already doing far better than I expected with the Bow, EAP, Jamieson, Centennial and all the smaller buildings that went up in the last 5 or 6 years...

Besides the fact that we do not have the economy like Toronto does to support a "Supertall" type of development. Maybe if UAE ran out of oil and we become the sole supplier of Oil.

Chadillaccc · #77 Posted **Mar 27, 2014, 3:58 AM**

Keep it on the DL though, we don't want Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Nigeria, Angola, Venezuela, or Libya finding out that they are major oil producing nations as well.

TallBob · #78 Posted **Mar 27, 2014, 7:14 AM**

Anyway, Tellus Sky......

craner · #79 Posted **Mar 28, 2014, 5:25 AM**

. . . Sure hope demo starts soon so construction can commence this summer.
YEAH BABY!

Bcasey25raptor · #80 Posted **Mar 28, 2014, 7:12 AM**

Have to admit I'm quite blown away by Calgary. For 1.3 million inhabitants it is doing very well for it's size. The skyline already looks huge for a city of it's size.

With the addition of brookfield place and the telus sky development your skyline will be very iconic and I am most definitely jealous of it's scope.

I really need to get out there to Calgary one of these days. Gotta admit I've never really been.

I can't wait to see pictures of this development when it finally begins