[archited]

The city needs at the very least a minimum architectural design standard so we don't have garbage proposals like Massey Ferguson.

100%. And neither was I thinking of you @NicolBolas when I made my "Ed-Neg" comment. I encourage people to speak loudly in reference to poorly conceived Architectural Proposals -- there is no valid excuse for any of them being built. On the other hand people who excuse the inexcusable because it increases density or because it obliterates surface parking need to shake their collective heads twice -- we don't need insufferable architecture to take the place of either.

 

[David A]

I think you can love your city and celebrate its strengths while also wanting it to improve. And I think there's a difference between (most of us on here) bitching about the poorly-designed, ugly-as-shit buildings that are popping up all over the map and just bitching about how shitty our city is. So I agree, we need to demand better!

In addition to generalized statements about ugly buildings, we probably need to name and shame a number of them starting with the worst, which arguably is here.

 

[EtoV]

To be fair both Vancouver and Calgary are arguably better ran cities in general. Edmonton goes from one 4 year term of mismanagement to the next, this also contributes to the race to the bottom for architecture and infrastructure.

Anyone who calls Vancouver well run has never lived in Vancouver

 

[Kosy123]

Hot take: I dont mind the north side buildings, it's the south one I want to condemn for heresy

 

[constance_chlore]

This does look like a student residence, maybe for a mid-tier state university in a depressing town in Ohio.

 

[JNO1]

This is nice....for Nisku.

 

[David A]

If my mother were alive I would not be writing home to tell her about this. The flag is the most exciting element in this presentation. What a waste of a downtown City block!

It is pretty bad when you have to add a flag in to either improve it, distract from it, or maybe both. I feel the old saying patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel has some relevance here.

 

[ADob]

It looks like a sad high school built in the era where children weren't allowed to have access to too much sunlight. Those tiny little windows just make the whole thing even worse.

 

[HelpEd]

The design looks fairly basic. Still, if construction starts mid-year or next year, it should add more people and energy to the downtown core.

 

[degrandprix]

At least it's another parking lot gone..

I still think it might be ok at street level, with the larger windows, planters, and a bit of not-grey siding.

 

[David A]

We waited years and years for this? If you are going to build crap like this ... really, just don't bother.

 

[bodsbods9090]

^And bigger windows.
These look like they're the size of prison windows.

Take a page from Rohit Stadium Yards project and this gets A LITTLE better.

 

[BASE]

It's awful

 

[constance_chlore]

Are there any remaining means for people to give input to steer this, or is it basically that everything is up to the developers' discretion now?

 

[thommyjo]

This is insanely ugly. How…

800 students is great. But not like this. Bigger windows at minimum please.