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Originally Posted by Reesonov
Yeah, I think the sandcrawler is probably the ugliest building in the Calgary CBD. Just terrible on every single level.
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I find it interesting. I can’t think of anything like it anywhere else. It’s like an adjunct office tower built into a parkade. It reminds me of a tetris piece. The thing they cheaped out on that hurt it most was the metal facade they put over the parking. I can’t recall how it was originally supposed to look (white I think) but the renderings looked better. When you’re on 10th it definitely catches your attention. Most of that stretch of 10th has some ugly shit though. Bromley Square, the Mustard Seed tower, the other brutalist parkades.
Edit: Here’s how it was supposed to have looked:
VS what was built:
You can also see they didn’t end up going with the two toned glass.