Scotia Place Reclad | 113.08m | 28s | Kasian

[kcantor]

please please please tell me the city is also prepared to work with the project team and owners to replace that stupid concrete bunker at jasper and 100a with a proper lrt entry!!!

this should be a grand pedestrian street from the lrt station/ecc on 102 avenue through telus park to macdonald drive and the future pedestrian bridge over mcdougall hill to the funicular's river valley access...

 

[Gronk!]

please please please tell me the city is also prepared to work with the project team and owners to replace that stupid concrete bunker at jasper and 100a with a proper lrt entry!!!

this should be a grand pedestrian street from the lrt station/ecc on 102 avenue through telus park to macdonald drive and the future pedestrian bridge over mcdougall hill to the funicular's river valley access...

Who knows if the items in bold will ever happen?

Otherwise I agree with Ken, that concrete bunker of an LRT entrance needs to go bye bye. They can replace that bunker with an LRT entrance that is directly adjacent to the Rice Howard Place building. At the very least, the LRT entrance should be similar to the LRT entrances on 103 St that have been in place since 2007 or earlier. I question why they have failed to convert this LRT entrance for so long.

 

[David A]

While I agree they could work together nicely, I don't think the former is dependent on the latter, so just replace the stupid concrete bunker now. That would be a good start.

 

[IanO]

This was/is planned to be replaced or removed with the rest of the RHW redo, has concept drawings and plans with both options if I recall and is TBD in terms of planning, funding and its eventual update.

 

[Greenspace]

Lots of different discussions about what to do with that entrance. No final on it yet.

 

[kcantor]

^
from bilbao but pretty typical for spain:

from edmonton:

maybe we could even just recycle some of our old ones:

 

[David A]

Not only is it an ugly concrete bunker that needs to go ASAP, but the opening soon signs are peeling off.

 

[kcantor]

^

that's actually a pretty old photo... it looks worse than this now.

 

[Gronk!]

Interior renos

Access from the hated concrete bunker to the Central LRT station is closed

 

[Gronk!]

 

[IanO]

Maybe I am nostalgic, but I am going to miss Scotia.

 

[Gus Haynes]

Me too. It has a cool Die Hard-esque aesthetic that we're going to lose.

 

[Greenspace]

I will be sad if/when the red granite is covered over. Very handsome, timeless finish.

 

[David A]

I will be sad if/when the red granite is covered over. Very handsome, timeless finish.

The gold windows (now gone) and the red granite were quite distinctive. The granite is good quality and durable.

It is probably not the current fashion, but I would would have liked to have kept it too.

 

[Greenspace]

There is literal gold in that glass and no one makes it anymore. Other than Energy Square and other buildings that haven't been reclad with gold glass, there's only one contemporary building in China I believe that has gold glass on it.