Recent content by Platinum107

A group of us Planning students from the U of A had the opportunity to attend a paint night at Stantec, hosted by the Alberta Professional Planners Institute (APPI)! The 3rd floor is a really nice space, and I would love to see more of the tower one day. Our subject was 124th street :cool...

Looking really nice!!

I will say, visiting this specific Italian Centre has been a long standing tradition for my family. It would be cool if Teresa Spinelli and Co. could somehow make an individual Spinelli Cafe with a smaller bodega store and put that somewhere central, like in Wihkwentowin or near Whyte/Garneau.

Ur totally right, we should have the faregates at the entrances that lead underground. It will be more expensive and complicated to implement them tho, and I think entrances may need to be closed/reconfigured as part of a larger project which would reduce accessibility. It would've been great if...

In the underground stations the easy solution is obvious imo: You put the faregates in front of the stairs/escalators leading to and from the platforms. Stations like Southgate and Century Park could also have faregates at the pedway entrances. Others like Mckernan Belgravia, all Valley Line...

I wish Edmonton had a developer like Truman. They're doing so many high-quality projects in Calgary, and it would be great if a local big developer here could raise the bar a little in terms of quality architecture and design.

Hopefully they make the central street more pedestrianized in the final design :( Otherwise pretty cool!

4.2 million lowkey a STEAL. I hope the 50 year mortgage comes up here so my 21 year old self could buy this mountain villa (jk)

I understand where you're coming from, but I don't know if Edmonton will have the appetite for anything "inspirational" for a loooong time (private development-wise, at least). You'd be waiting on this site for 20 years probably. There's plenty of parking lots to go around, after all 🤣

Welcome back, early 2000's cheap apartment building! Who knew you'd be back in style 🙃 (I'll eat my shoe if it turns out nice)

Luichi's is kinda cheeks ngl (no hate towards the guys running the truck its just the coffee) I agree that our lack of street-level coffee shops in downtown is really stupid. We need MOAR COFFEEEEE

13 year old me is still holding out hope, okay 🥲

I personally believe that Canadian suburbs vs. Russian suburbs exemplify the two extreme ends of suburban development, and neither are very good or effective. Our cities sprawl too much with low-density car-oriented development, and theirs sprawl with inhuman and out-of-scale high-density towers...

This gives me the same vibe as a new Moscow suburban residential building, respectfully

My theory: Allowing this building to be destroyed cursed Edmonton to forever have mediocre developments. In order to lift the curse, the building must be reconstructed in some form. What an absolute tragedy for our local architecture :confused: