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Originally Posted by Coldrsx
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Here's a way better scan of the C.N. Lands study;
It's not really an unbuilt 'project' per se, as it was only ever conceived as a land-use study, showing what private developers could do with the railyards if the railway was to have decommissioned them there and then. The whole genesis behind it was that the City was looking for a new arena to replace the aging Edmonton Garden's and this was presented as part of a report entitled "
A Coliseum, Trade Centre or Domed Stadium for Edmonton." The ultimate result of these studies was the creation of Northlands Coliseum. Here's two other proposals: one by Hashman & Co. Ltd.;
...and one by the Stanford Research Institute;
Going way further back in time you had this awesome Central Police Station that never went anywhere. It was designed by architect Allan Merrick Jeffers, of the Legislature Building fame, and construction began on it's foundations in 1913/14. The building was never completed thanks to the war, a lack of material and manpower, and Edmonton's dwindling population. The old foundation was finally used for a much smaller central station in 1931;