That 17th ave proposal looks great also.
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haltcatchfire
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Well that's absolutely phenomenal and it comes with dessert too!! Who's the architect on this one?
Post of the year.
O-tac
Senior Member
The clear glass segment will be navy blue hardie board and spandrel and the pyramid sided podium will be flat as a pancake with tin panels.
In all seriousness though, I would think there must be more pressure on them not to VE these buildings when major hotel brands are involved?
O-tac
Senior Member
The crown is kind of reminiscent of the Stampede station towers. I actually don’t mind this design, but made the mistake of viewing the tower and podium sideways. Umm, yeah you guys tell me if you see the same thing.
UrbanWarrior
Senior Member
Holy fukfoyifuvnsd shıt! That’s a good 1000x better than I was expecting. Wow.
UrbanWarrior
Senior Member
Hahaha, brutal dig at me. But, yeah we’ll see. I have pretty high hopes for the quality of their hotel projects specifically, as brands like W, JW, Autograph, and Fairmont have fairly/very high design standards. I’m fairly confident all will turn out well.
O-tac
Senior Member
I don’t think that’s a dig at you, just Truman’s bait and switch.
konradiical
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They can make it all nice in the renderings all they want, but knowing Truman, they'll cheap out on the material to pump out more towers
Cowtown
Senior Member
With Fairmont as the anchor client it won’t be as easy to cheap out. I have faith it won’t be too far off from the renderings.
FCC1982
Senior Member
Been out of the loop for the long weekend and returned to SRC to find this very pleasant suprise.
This is absolutely fabulous - I love the vertical lines, it feels very sophisticated to me. And more height than anticipated, it’s the height of the Calgary Tower so will definitely have an impact on the skyline.
To me I immediately got vibes of a modernized version of the Wells Fargo Center in Minneapolis:
Golfing guy
Active Member
Poor Broadway development. Year ago they had the tallest building south of the tracks proposed. Now they are #4. Love this one!
DiscoStu
Senior Member
You've got me curious why you'd think that, but nope!
UrbanWarrior
Senior Member
Oh because a couple people bitched at me for my valid critique of Gallery First & Tenth
Glad to hear it wasn’t though!CalgaryTiger
Senior Member
I'm curious what Truman did to land these hoteliers as partners, it is an interesting pivot from a developer that will also build you a single-family home. Maybe it is that Gucci lobby, we all know once you go Gucci you never go back.
I think the demand for these kind of hotels is already there, they just needed to connect the dots.
Stay tuned, there may be yet another high end hotel coming to a downtown near you
