Calgary: Your favorite U/C Residential Highrise

[Arriviste]

Almost forgot the point of this thread. I chose Union becasue nothing else really does it for me. Colors i alright. Neura will be tops for me once construction commences.

[niwell]

Brava, while an aesthetically pleasing design, has horrible ground level treatment. Very much 'tower in the park'. In my mind this is unacceptable for a site that will eventually be right next to an LRT station.

[Bigtime]

Originally Posted by Bassic Lab

London should get some special recognition though. Upon completion of the four tower complex it will hold something like 1500 new units in an established community without having destroyed any part of that community. The city should really push for more complexes like London, high density developments on brownfield sites, in inner or near inner city areas, close to great transit. Two such complexes mean something like a square mile less sprawl on the city's perephery. If they could only make the next ones better looking, and I really hope there are next ones, the Horton Road strip alone could easily house more than 10 000 people and such areas exist all over the city.

I pretty much agree with all of that, but London loses points on one very petty point for me. I hated those radio ads of theirs!

Edit: Oh yeah, I voted Arriva. But I'm hoping to see great things from Union and Colours!

** Edited by administration (Dylan Leblanc) 21 Jan 2007 **

[Habanero]

Originally Posted by Surrealplaces

I wonder if anyone has any connections to one of theose Condo magazines? It would be interesting to see if they would ever consider printing off these results. It might show the developers/architects which projects are well liked.

I doubt that the condo mags would print this though because they are magazines that rely on advertising and probably wouldn't want to offend some of the clients who did poorly in the voting.

On the hand the results could be sent to Torode, and he could put them in one of his adverts.

I'd like to see these results published somewhere, but I doubt it would happen. As you said, if the results were sent to the people at Torode, they may use it for bragging rights, but outside of that I don't see it happening.

[jeffwhit]

I'm actually a little surprised that Arriva is dominating as much as it is.

[Pavlov]

I hate to say it, but there is still more bad than good on that list. Hopefully the quality of design will continue to improve with new projects and renderings released this year.

[jeffwhit]

^^ True, but it will balance out this year for sure.

[CorporateWhore]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

I hated those radio ads of theirs!

There are so many products out there that I will simply not buy because of their horrendous advertising. Some that come to mind: that bitch-slut Christine McGee and her awful Sleep Country ads; or the fat-ass blue-cheese pizza dude drooling over Panagos pizza.

[Bigtime]

** Edited by administration (Dylan Leblanc) 21 Jan 2007 **

[Pavlov]

Originally Posted by jeffwhit

^^ True, but it will balance out this year for sure.

Yes, definitely construction of St. Germain, the Exchange, etc combined with the end of projects like Churchill and Vantage Pointe will make that list far more impressive.

[SteveP]

^I think the balance of good will be better than the bad in 2007. Xenex, Encore, Union Square, Colors, Nova, and Nuera coming online in 2007 will mark a great year.

[Calalb]

1.Arriva.
2.Union Square.
3.Vetro.