Canada's Tallest U/C #11 - #30 (inclusive) - Page 51

bob1954 · #**1001** Posted: **Mar 7, 2009, 6:20 AM**

Who cares, when we've got Toronto pix to look at!

Bigtime · #**1002** Posted: **Mar 7, 2009, 3:32 PM**

Some housekeeping on the Calgary buildings on this list:

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Originally Posted by caltrane74

11. Centennial Place 176.0 Meters (Calgary)
12. Jamison Place 170 Meters (Calgary)
14. ArriVa 42 - 163 Meters (Calgary)
26. Astoria on Tenth 130 Meters (Calgary) Most likely on hold, no action for a long time on the site.
31. Five West East Tower 124 Meters (Calgary)Construction finished, now occupied.

Jimby · #**1003** Posted: **Mar 9, 2009, 3:21 PM**

Jamieson Place

JP + bp

JP winter garden

Centennial Place 1 & 2

caltrane74 · #**1004** Posted: **Mar 9, 2009, 4:09 PM**

Office tower construction is best!

caltrane74 · #**1005** Posted: **Mar 9, 2009, 4:33 PM**

Cityplace from greenleaf at www.urbantoronto.ca

Coldrsx · #**1006** Posted: **Mar 9, 2009, 4:55 PM**

^so bland... boring. Even though i am a huge fan of curtain wall and point towers, mix it up yo.

caltrane74 · #**1007** Posted: **Mar 9, 2009, 6:33 PM**

Signature will mix it up.....whenever it gets built.

I think the idea was to have a pretty static bunch of towers, to then highlight the really tall and spectacular tower.

Coldrsx · #**1008** Posted: **Mar 9, 2009, 6:37 PM**

^terrible philosophy.

WhipperSnapper · #**1009** Posted: **Mar 9, 2009, 6:53 PM**

You'd need a solid concrete wall to mix it up from the wash out vantage and, in that case, I'd rather keep the elliptical Signature tower once planned

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Office tower construction is best!

IMO, A turd is a turd regardless of use and Jamieson stinks pretty badly already.

Coldrsx · #**1010** Posted: **Mar 9, 2009, 6:55 PM**

how about some color or some black though..... this grey is what makes me hate parts of van.

wild wild west · #**1011** Posted: **Mar 9, 2009, 7:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by Sacamano

IMO, A turd is a turd regardless of use and Jamieson stinks pretty badly already.

Not a fan of the two-tone reflective glass on the tower portion of Jamieson, but the winter garden holds some promise IMO.

On the other hand, I am loving Centennial thus far...you win some, you lose some I guess.

WhipperSnapper · #**1012** Posted: **Mar 9, 2009, 8:27 PM**

Centennial looks good although it could be a lot better with even more styles of curtainwall thrown into the mix. Y'know the Gibbs Gage motto, "When in doubt, throw some more at it!"

I've yet to see Jamieson in real time , so yeah, maybe I'm tasting a little of my big toe right now.

wild wild west · #**1013** Posted: **Mar 9, 2009, 8:45 PM**

Haha! For all they can come up with some real crap (Livingston), Gibbs Gage is capable of making a truly great building - Centrium is almost universally loved.

giallo · #**1014** Posted: **Mar 10, 2009, 1:32 AM**

Centennial Place is looking very nice. I like it a lot already. Clean and simple.
I can't get over the racing stripes on JP though. The podium is pretty awkward as well. I'll wait until it's finished before I judge, but it ain't looking good.

wild wild west · #**1015** Posted: **Mar 10, 2009, 2:00 AM**

Yeah, the stripes aren't working for me either. I wish they'd gone with 2 more similar colours of glass - or, better yet, one (less reflective) colour.

craner · #**1016** Posted: **Mar 10, 2009, 5:07 AM**

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Originally Posted by Jimby

Centennial Place 1 & 2

I'm lovin' the west face of Centenial.

craner · #**1017** Posted: **Mar 10, 2009, 5:08 AM**

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Originally Posted by caltrane74

Cityplace from greenleaf at www.urbantoronto.ca

Gotta love the height of these suckers even if they are somewhat blah.

bob1954 · #**1018** Posted: **Mar 10, 2009, 5:17 AM**

Jamison Place is gonna be pretty good IMO, at 50 floors I think it would be one of the most impressive office buildings in N. America! Centennial should have been one 55-60 story building instead of two, (damn shadow nazis)! I'm affraid Calgary missed the best opportunity for 2-3 800' + for many years. I could be wrong, but it's gonna be very tough to get finnancing even when the economies of NA and the world start growing again!!

WhipperSnapper · #**1019** Posted: **Mar 10, 2009, 4:20 PM**

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Jamison Place is gonna be pretty good IMO, at 50 floors I think it would be one of the most impressive office buildings in N. America!

Okay.

IMO, The tower will never reach 50 storeys or ever be consider impressive. (in even Calgary alone)

I'm very keen on how the racing stripes will translate onto the spire.

caltrane74 · #**1020** Posted: **Mar 10, 2009, 7:31 PM**

very good goodlookin'!!

hehe...

"racing stripes"