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What makes this situation scary is that unlike a private landowner, if worse comes to worst there's nothing that can be done to save them. In nearly every other instance the City or Province has the theoretical power to plaster on a historic designation to halt a landowner from destroying their...

Four of the University of Alberta’s most significant heritage buildings are up for demolition this spring. Know as the "Ring Hoses", they originally functioned as staff residences. At one time there were seven of these homes — three were demolished in the 1960s to make way for the Windsor Car...

Someone somewhere once described the loss of our downtown stations and their replacement by V.I.A.’s as the transition from “community cornerstone to Corner Gas” and that’s always stuck in my head. It’d never happen given the new infrastructure required, but it’d be amazing to see a proper...

^^Hell, even I referred to it as a “conspiracy theory”, ie. that there’s no proof except my own flimsy conjecture. In fact, there’s some proof to suggest otherwise, including this 1965 aerial. Showing the north face of the shops, it's clear that the sign hadn’t been installed by that point —...

^^ As a correction, that picture's a Provincial Archives one, not a City one. Here's one of the Canadian National Station, taken in about 1963 if I'm remembering correctly. The photographer is Steve Peirpoint: I have a conspiracy theory about the neon sign up top. So, C.N. introduced its 'wet...

^Yup, it's just Hangar 11 and Hangar 14 (the Aviation Museum) left. Hangar 8, another Second World War hangar and the third last from the era, was demolished back in 2015 or so.

Yes, that's the one! I probably should have clarified. There were concerns from NAIT about not being 'consulted' in that group's design/ consultation phase, and not having their own proposals for the site even acknowledged by the City — this was refuted by Administration. Their qualms weren't...

Executive Council's voted 5-0 to pursue Option 2, selling Hangar 11 at below market value to a group ready to restore and redevelop it. They proposal submitted in today's discussions look really interesting, with the leading idea being to convert the east and west office wings of the building...

If we're sharing stuff about Hangar 11, I may as well leave this here: https://forgottenedmonton.blogspot.com/2021/01/hangar-11.html

^I'd suggest the Edmonton Area Transit System (E.A.T.S.), but it might just make people hungry...

^^What gets my respect (beautiful design notwithstanding) is that MODA's actually comfortable enough to produce renders showing what their building will look like in the winter. It's cold, snowy, or overcast some eight months of the year, yet most other projects only showcase what it'll look...

That was the Agency Building, at one time purported to be Canada's skinniest 'skyscraper'. It stood at a height of twenty-eight meters and a width of seven. More reading here. Height aside, it dominated the skyline for decades with a brilliant neon sign for Northwestern Utilities that depicted...

^The lobby's pretty magnificent too. Here's two not-so-great pictures I took about four years back:

To be fair, before Oliver was "Oliver", its official community name was the "West End". Having it be the West Village now could be a nod back to that.

Another picture of the new glass via this Reddit thread:

I'll forever be annoyed that we live in a universe where Edmonton was denied a cool Art Deco tower. Proposed for the current day site of City Hall, the idea for this fifteen-storey hotel floated around between 1948 and 1949. Architects were to be Ross, Patterson, Townsend & Heughan, the...

Yeah, it shouldn't be too big a problem. Jasper still dips from where the old CPR bridge was, so the clearance is there. Couple that with the fact that the shopping centre at 109th and Jasper was apperently developed to have a spot for a replacement bridge at some point. (If that was the case...

I had a look over Nickel's issues with Edmonton on his campaign page. For all his talk over the years about being 'fiscally responsible' I love how he's still advocating for "rethinking" the Valley Line West. I guess fiscal conservatism doesn't apply to all the money already spent on the years...

Yeah, when they were refurbished back in 2007-08(?). Before then they were about the most '70s looking things you could imagine.

With the exception of the High Level and original Low Level span, I think that Wellington is the only other bridge that should be retained in perpetuity, if possible. It's certainly our nicest looking and I really hope they end up keeping the arches and railings. Having said that, even I'll...