City Center I & II | 161.5M - 36 F (Office) & 151 M - 47 F (Mixed Use) | Construction - Page 7

Surrealplaces · #**121** Posted: **Feb 28, 2012, 11:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by LeftCoaster

Hotel partner has been chosen for a while, it's a different change.

Big development today on the project as well, should be announced publicly soon.

Awesome, looking forward to hearing about it!

craner · #**122** Posted: **Mar 1, 2012, 3:03 AM**

I'm giddy with anticipation about this one - especially the hotel/Res tower.
looking forward to an announcement very soon.

Reesonov · #**123** Posted: **Mar 1, 2012, 4:35 AM**

Yeah, anticipation is killing me. This would be a big project for Eau Claire.

TallBob · #**124** Posted: **Mar 1, 2012, 5:01 AM**

The Shadowing enforcement squad left town and City Center (1 & 2) are going to be taller.

JBinCalgary · #**125** Posted: **Mar 3, 2012, 8:01 AM**

i still drool at the original design. it would have been the nice tower in canada!

TallBob · #**126** Posted: **Mar 4, 2012, 1:34 AM**

JB: I agree! A 216-220 meter tower would have been great. But we'll have to see how this new proposal works out. I like the Hotel/Residential componant of this new proposal over the office, and I hope it gets built first.

JBinCalgary · #**127** Posted: **Mar 4, 2012, 5:38 AM**

Does anyone have a copy of the original rendering?

s211 · #**128** Posted: **Mar 4, 2012, 5:19 PM**

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Originally Posted by JBinCalgary

Does anyone have a copy of the original rendering?

You don't want to see it. It was one of the most Vegas-aped designs you'll ever see. It was a total caricature.

Wooster · #**129** Posted: **Mar 4, 2012, 5:58 PM**

I'm guessing he's actually referring to the second iteration, which had shards of glass popping out the top section of the building. It was a pretty neat design.

This current proposal though is better overall I'd say, particularly at the ground level.

JBinCalgary · #**130** Posted: **Mar 4, 2012, 7:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by s211

You don't want to see it. It was one of the most Vegas-aped designs you'll ever see. It was a total caricature.

Oh but i do! and have seen the design, it reminded me of a crystal shard protruding from the earths core. I would go so far as to say it was boner worthy! Seriously though IMO it was the most risky design calgary had seen at the time as far as proposals go, I do however like the redesign. Just a little simple, the original design would have been a mould breaker for the city.

JBinCalgary · #**131** Posted: **Mar 4, 2012, 7:51 PM**

scroll on down to the bottom of page 3, to see the image, also the original rendering was on skyscrapercity in the city centre thread
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=509643

http://www.google.ca/search?q=city+c...w=1280&bih=629

TallBob · #**132** Posted: **Mar 4, 2012, 9:45 PM**

I kind of like that older proposal of CC. Damn Shadow Bylaw.

s211 · #**133** Posted: **Mar 5, 2012, 4:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by JBinCalgary

Oh but i do! and have seen the design, it reminded me of a crystal shard protruding from the earths core. I would go so far as to say it was boner worthy! Seriously though IMO it was the most risky design calgary had seen at the time as far as proposals go, I do however like the redesign. Just a little simple, the original design would have been a mould breaker for the city.

For clarity, that was not the original design for the site.

JBinCalgary · #**134** Posted: **Mar 6, 2012, 10:59 AM**

Oh your referring to the Chrysler tower rubbish. yeah that was friggin garbage. I remember it having a four tower complex with a hotel office and condos. Barf

s211 · #**135** Posted: **Mar 6, 2012, 4:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by JBinCalgary

Oh your referring to the Chrysler tower rubbish. yeah that was friggin garbage. I remember it having a four tower complex with a hotel office and condos. Barf

Bingo. Kitch incarnate.

kw5150 · #**136** Posted: **Mar 6, 2012, 4:35 PM**

What? This fugly thing?? lol

http://www.emporis.com/images/show/140223-Large.jpg

Tropics · #**137** Posted: **Mar 6, 2012, 5:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by TallBob

JB: I agree! A 216-220 meter tower would have been great. But we'll have to see how this new proposal works out. I like the Hotel/Residential componant of this new proposal over the office, and I hope it gets built first.

In this instance I like this shorter design better, it helps the city "taper" towards downtown in a better fashion, the original design would have created too much of a "wall" effect on the riverfront.

Plus with this design I love how they incorperated the gardens and trees above ground level on multiple tiers, it is about time we started to see more of that in Calgary. The multi-story entrance on their website that has the palm trees and waterfall in the background looks absolutely nuts too, in a very good way.

I am very happy with this design, get these guys to redesign the Herald Square IMO. Heck take the old City Center design and put that on the HS site,, we get both designs and lose the Herald Square box, win/win/win.

brentwood · #**138** Posted: **Mar 6, 2012, 5:22 PM**

Regarding Herald Square... even something as simple as rotating the tower 90 degrees would be an improvement. It would finally add a little variety to the orientation of buildings in the downtown. But I think a better design, especially for the top of the building would be preferable.

You Need A Thneed · #**139** Posted: **Mar 6, 2012, 5:50 PM**

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Originally Posted by brentwood

Regarding Herald Square... even something as simple as rotating the tower 90 degrees would be an improvement. It would finally add a little variety to the orientation of buildings in the downtown. But I think a better design, especially for the top of the building would be preferable.

Do you know what happens when you rotate a square 90 degrees?

kw5150 · #**140** Posted: **Mar 6, 2012, 6:03 PM**

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Originally Posted by You Need A Thneed

Do you know what happens when you rotate a square 90 degrees?

lol, good catch.