Warehouse District Park

[TAS]

It reminds me of the level of design that Borden received and is unique, interesting and colourful.

Here are the design images the city was looking at for Kinistaw Park - unfortunately these didn't really come to fruition.These images are from the city report- these I find more interesting and colorful and FUN.

Here is park.

 

[TAS]

Those see saws in one of the pics above would have been great. They light up while in use! Great for a winter city or anytime of year to promote use and a sense of fun and play. See image in top left corner.

 

[erudyk_29]

I don't necessarily have strong feelings on this design either way, but I notice that your preferred colors appear to be the most neutral/drab/boring options available. I wonder if a pop of color would be more interesting?

Most likely you are correct. I would say in general, especially for a city like Edmonton which turns monochrome for 5 or more months of the year, adding colour where you can is probably a good thing. My main objection is the particular colour used ie, a dull red/pink, and how it looks on that specific structure. I feel that a more "drab" colour would be better on this particular structure, but not structures in general.

The examples above are examples of a great use of colour, especially red.

 

[Avenuer]

I like the pavillion design - better than a boring grey glass box or whatever it could've been instead.

 

[David A]

Most likely you are correct. I would say in general, especially for a city like Edmonton which turns monochrome for 5 or more months of the year, adding colour where you can is probably a good thing. My main objection is the particular colour used ie, a dull red/pink, and how it looks on that specific structure. I feel that a more "drab" colour would be better on this particular structure, but not structures in general.

The examples above are examples of a great use of colour, especially red.

Yes, I like the red examples better too.

 

[archited]

I remember when I used to deal with Ritch Ezra when Arista Records was still a thing and he was VP West Coast A&R, he used to say when reviewing music demos that landed in his office unsolicited that they were often accompanied with a note that said something to the effect that "this demo is better than half the crap that gets airplay on the radio". It was a huge turn-off for him -- they just compared their demo to crap -- what a commendation! Same here -- it diminishes the design result of the building proposal when you compare it to something that is less than. No need to compare it to something else; it is just bad design -- there is no sense of entry, the repetitive hoops are boring and unrelated to the landscape (much less anything to do with the Cityscape around it), and it doesn't define a purpose or a sense of goal -- it is so poor that it could almost be anything else and succeed to a greater degree.

 

[Glenco]

They have started work on the park they removed the boulevard trees. No going back now.

 

[davcocom]

 

[northlands]

Guessing this is more utilities/prelim work, but there’s a skid steer and backhoe moving dirt, plus smaller two excavators that have appeared.

Guessing we’ll know when they’re fully mobilizing when they fence the whole lot.

 

[MacLac]

Is this view from work every day? If so, looks like we found ourselves an inside man's point of view for construction of the park and to a lesser extent Phase 2 Parks?

 

[Stevey_G]

Take a picture every day from the same tripod location! That would be sweet. A year's worth of shots would net you a ten second video.

 

[Munanyo]

Are we expecting to see full blown activity on this during the summer?

 

[IanO]

You bet. I suspect by the end of next month or early June.