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ScraperDude
September 29th, 2005, 07:33 PM
Any updates someone can post in here about MBH new tower in the peg?
Has there been groundbreaking? Site cleared?
fengshui
September 29th, 2005, 08:51 PM
There is a live webcam with two views on the Hydro web page.

Click here to see web cam image (http://www.hydro.mb.ca/issues/downtown_cams_south.shtml)
SimpleSimon
September 29th, 2005, 11:10 PM
http://www.hydro.mb.ca/webcam/AirCan_512.jpg
http://www.hydro.mb.ca/webcam/MedArt_512.jpg
Rhino
September 29th, 2005, 11:33 PM
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ScraperDude
September 30th, 2005, 01:21 AM
yea thats sweet... I'm not familiar with Manitoba winters but will construction still go on even in the cold months?
WpG_GuY
September 30th, 2005, 04:12 AM
yea thats sweet... I'm not familiar with Manitoba winters but will construction still go on even in the cold months?

:hahaha: yes, it does, they have a deadline of early 2007.
CanadianCentaur
September 30th, 2005, 04:41 AM
Not sure where I wanted to place this in SSP to show to you Winnipeggers, and I don't know if any of you've seen this rendering before specifically. But I stumbled across this and I like it. (wish it was bigger though!)

http://www.westerninvestor.com/articles/images/manbriefs.jpg
SimpleSimon
September 30th, 2005, 05:15 AM
http://www.hydro.mb.ca/issues/downtown_design/images/03_graham.jpg
http://www.hydro.mb.ca/issues/downtown_design/images/02_portage_entrance.jpg
http://www.hydro.mb.ca/issues/downtown_design/images/01_portage.jpg
http://www.hydro.mb.ca/issues/downtown_design/images/04_graham_edmonton.jpg
http://www.hydro.mb.ca/issues/downtown_design/images/05_main_floor_gallery.jpg

All you need to know is here:
project site (http://www.hydro.mb.ca/issues/downtown_home.shtml)
ScraperDude
September 30th, 2005, 02:49 PM
Would be nice if Hydro would have used a mixed use tower (to give it more height)
Travis007
September 30th, 2005, 07:40 PM
I love this tower, it looks different each side.
snoopy
September 30th, 2005, 08:19 PM
this tower looks too mishy mashy... i dunno. the thin side view looks bad but the long/wide side view looks good. i'll have to actually see the building when it is finally completed to make my judgement on it. But good for winnipeg getting an office tower!
vid
September 30th, 2005, 08:24 PM
You keep building during winter? The smaller projects here stop from mid-Jan to early-Feb, due to dub -40 temperatures. :S

The tower looks nice, though.
Haber
October 2nd, 2005, 05:54 PM
That's a good question. Will it be mixed use with on street shops? If the tower does that would really help liven downtown.