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Yeah, this building slaps. And the original Mercury Block across the street:

I went to Rasht today. I had a karak chai and the fried eggplant dish (kashke bademjan). The chai was just okay, but the eggplant dish was delicious and looked beautiful on the plate. I definitely want to go back and try more.

Well no, let's be clear: People almost never go anywhere to see the regular residential architecture where most people live. They go for the history, culture, and events. Certain kinds of housing policy can promote those things while others hinder them. Again, this building doesn't exist yet...

Yeah, the big central European cities are a good reference point. I'm not sure why people here put down buildings as being boxy, but Germans have never been afraid of a good, wholesome box (except I guess the Nazis?). Likewise, Mercury Block/Cobalt wouldn't look at all out of place in Berlin...

I do feel like some of the retching in threads like this has gotten a bit performative. Yes, it's disappointing given how high our expectations were; yes, we should hope for (and push for) better. But we don't even really know what we're looking at, e.g. what cladding material the renders...

Thread here.

It looks fine, but disappointingly non-(historical)-warehouse-y.

Sounds like Ian means this one south of EPS headquarters:

Right or wrong, I think the prevailing notion is that Edmonton doesn't have enough people willing to pay more to rent in well-designed, attractive multi-family housing for all developers to feel incentivized to build such housing. This might be due to some combination of "Edmontonians have poor...

I didn't realize the Hive wasn't dead! Interesting that you can even see the name on Google Street View images. In any case, great news for the Quarters if they manage to deal with those last issues.

Yeah, a lot depends on things we can't see in this preliminary version.

That's a prime site! I hope they'd make the most of it with a nice building.

Fun Halloween colors! Spooky! 🎃

Unfortunately not! You can find this stuff in bland suburbs all over North America.

Apologies if this has been mentioned already, but District Café's website says they're opening a new location in Rice Howard Place: https://districtcafe.ca/