New Encana Office Tower

[Ryan]

Yes Shad, I do enjoy the view of crack village thank you!  It will be missed... *tear*

[Skywalker]

Sorry Guys, here's the info.  It will be the fourth tallest building in Canada and the tallest building in Canada outside of Toronto.  It's height comes in at 247m (810ft) with 59 floors.

It is also the first tower outside of Toronto to be built with glass and steel, not concrete like the rest of Calgary's tall buildings.

It has an atrium that will be an open space all the way from the ground floor up to the 59th floor.  There is 3 garden levels in the atrium as well as numerous "floating" atrium pods (you can see these in the picture taken from the south if you look hard).

Here is a good story which goes over some of it's features.

http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/s...669c26a&k=39050

[Mikal]

Apparently it has been dubbed the "Encana Banana".....

[Skywalker]

Oh, and by the way its official name is "The Bow" because of it's bow-like shape and it's proximity to the Bow river.

[Skywalker]

Here's the site plan, notice that the block to the south will also have some new 7 story buildings which will contain shopping and cultural space.  This southern block will incorperate the existing York and St. Louis buildings.  The entire project will be connected via. the +15 system.

The second pic is of what the Calgary skyline is going to look like when all of the towers currently under construction are finished in 2011

[Aquabat]

The innovative design also offers downtowners wind shelter from westerlies, keeping the smell of hobos, and crack heads to a minimum.

[Skywalker]

Check it out in High Res... look at all of the pods in the sky atrium... friggin wicked!!!