Edmonton's city owned building, with the exception of things like the downtown library, have been quite successful. Unfortunately it never translated over to the private sector. While the city usually dishes out for high caliber architecture offices, most developers are on the hunt for the...

I am always awestruck and the amount the city grows every year when it can barely maintain what it has to a acceptable standard of cleanliness and maintenance. It's been few years since i've been to St.Albert but I always felt an immediate difference driving through there versus Edmonton. So is...

Those aerials aren’t really selling me. It looks like Terwillegar Towne. I don’t want to be a downer on Blatchford, but that’s a lot of single-use, relatively low-density development right from the get-go. Is someone’s quality of life here actually different enough to justify the premium? What’s...

Some potential records we could strive for: - Tallest light-wood frame tower - Most amount of different cladding types on a single building - Highest use of hardie board panel per capita First post on this page is from 2016, cheers to another 10 years of The Quarters Hotel and Residences!

please no 6-storey woodframes on Jasper ave, i beg you. As others mentioned, would be a good spot for the park to expand with an actual formal beautiful entrance from jasper avenue, (imagine!) Alternatively, i wouldnt mind seeing some well designed park pavilions that could host restaurants...

Kudos for the material choices, makes a world of difference. Hopefully the next phases can proceed and without the stick frame downgrade epidemic we've been seeing everywhere.

Simons there would be fantastic, and I think would do just as good as the WEM location, perhaps better. Or a mall expansion into the south parking lots, with a few residential towers would be nice. The existing housing stock around the mall is quite dated.

We used to dream up things that didn’t get built. Now we get things that really shouldn’t get built instead 🥲

I am not sure if its as formulaic as that. In 2018 the airport opened a shopping mall in a field with zero population base. The downtown of a Metro region of 1.5 million, a major employment node, with 2 post-secondary's, where all transit lines converge should, on paper, be able to sustain...

Although I do appreciate all the density added to the university area as a whole, the amount of turds that have gone up (that University Heights project on university avenue is one of the ugliest things I've seen as of late) is also a cause for concern. It makes me a lot more sympathetic to the...

The at grade crossing there is a huge preventable blunder. Should not be designing at-grade LRT crossings on a highway off-ramp. As others have pointed out, at the very least they should be installing crossing arms here.

Well at least both are highly visible from the new park

Thank you. Most of the criticism here is not about the height. It is about the design and material choices. Reducing the conversation to “not everything needs to be a high-rise” sidesteps the actual concerns people are raising. Hire a better architect, use quality cladding. The height...

Who would have believed that in 2026 we would still be building new parking lots downtown? ....ok maybe most of us. It is easy to believe that in 10 years from now we might have more new parking lots even as old ones get developed. There is also some fun irony (cognitive dissonance?) in the...