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EnCana unveils The Bow - Calgary's newest tower

Foster + Partners spectacular design sculpts new lines across Calgary skyline

CALGARY, Alberta (October 12, 2006) - EnCana Corporation (TSX, NYSE: ECA) today filed a development permit application with the City of Calgary for the construction of The Bow, Calgary's newest office tower. EnCana, along with its architectural team led by Foster + Partners, unveiled the design for the spectacular 59-storey glass and steel office high-rise to be built in the heart of downtown Calgary.

Configured in the shape of a bow, the 1.7 million square foot tower is a striking creation that provides office occupants an expansive view of the surrounding environment - Rocky Mountains and the Bow River Valley to the west, the Canadian Prairies and Bow River to the east. Located between 5th and 7th Avenues between Centre and 1st Street S.E., the new building design features three interior garden atriums up the west face of the structure.

"We believe our dramatic new office tower will be a premier Calgary workplace, one that will enhance staff recruitment and retention while creating an energetic urban village in our city's core. Our people will enjoy multiple advantages by being housed in a single location along with amenities such as indoor gardens, a public outdoor space, complementary retail businesses and vibrant cultural venues. The innovative design of Foster + Partners will only enhance the EnCana work experience," said Randy Eresman, EnCana's President & Chief Executive Officer.

"Beyond the benefits to the EnCana workplace, we believe The Bow reflects the growing importance of our city and province from a business and cultural perspective. At EnCana, we are proud to play a role in adding exceptional architecture to our city skyline, as well as invigorating the centre of Calgary," Eresman said.

The Bow will set a new standard for environmental sustainability among high-rise offices in Canada. For example, the aerodynamic design of the crescent-shaped tower reduces the structure's wind load, thereby reducing the amount of structural material required and the surrounding turbulence. At the same time, the south-southwest orientation makes efficient use of the southern Alberta sun. The energy efficient design, which employs natural light and ventilation, is expected to reduce energy use by about 30 percent, compared to a conventional tower.

"EnCana's building project team has focused on creating a pleasant and efficient workplace that is tailored to support our individual business units. By initiating the design and development, we hope to bring greater certainty to our long-term occupancy costs in a competitive commercial real estate market. While we do not plan to own the building and we have conducted market research into selling it prior to the construction start, we do plan to be The Bow's long-term, principal tenant," said John Brannan, EnCana's building project executive lead.

EnCana hopes to receive development permit approval from the City of Calgary in the spring of 2007, and construction is expected to start shortly thereafter. EnCana plans to start occupying the building in the third quarter of 2010, with final occupancy in 2011.

Matthews Southwest of Toronto and Dallas is the lead project developer, managing site acquisition, architectural design, City of Calgary permits, and development planning strategy. Foster + Partners of London, England is the signature architect and Zeidler Partnership of Calgary is the project architect. In addition, EnCana retained Jeremy Sturgess of Calgary's Sturgess Architecture for the master planning of the streetscape and urban design.

Beautiful. Go Calgary!

Finally we get a design and rendering. I like it. Nicely done Calgary, it will be a jewel in the skyline.

This caught my eye in Google News this morning. I like the design -- if the cross bracing will actually be close to the render.
http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Alberta/2006/10/12/bow_tower.jpg

I knew it was a Foster's building since the first glance.The design seems average,like most of his projects.Let's wait for better renders to see more details.

Incredible! Very unique too!

This is awesome for Calgary AND the West.

The design seems average,like most of his projects.

What the hell?

I knew it was a Foster's building since the first glance.The design seems average,like most of his projects.Let's wait for better renders to see more details.

Foster...average....riiiiiiiiiight...

Not as tall as I had hoped,but a very nice landmark tower for Calgary.

I knew it was a Foster's building since the first glance.The design seems average,like most of his projects.Let's wait for better renders to see more details.

^^ (Good one)

Since the first glance at the topic I thought it was Encarta Office :scouserd:

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wicked! love it and it will be perfect for calgary. maby this will put the boxy skyline rap to rest for good.

wow, this is a real beauty, I love the Toronto city hall feel, but in a more modern look, and it's better in every single way.

I know Calgary has a sweet skyline, but I never paid attention to the individual skyscrapers, now this one has the landmark status written all over it :okay:

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Fantastic tower

Very, very nice!

Nice. It reminds me of Toronto City Hall mixed with the Hearst building in NYC.

Superb. Finaly something without a spire that's truly original. please keep renderings coming if possible, i'm being curious about what seems to be the atrium doubling as a second skin inside out, also the pods with the greenery.

Love the greenery inside. Congrtz to calgarycitizens.

It's pretty but the interlaced triangles were just done at NYC's Hearst.

http://www.curbed.com/archives/2005_05_hearsttower.jpg

Great tower for Calgary.
It may not fit perfectly into the existing skyline, but you have to start building non-boxy towers sometime :)

It's pretty but the interlaced triangles were just done at NYC's Hearst.

http://www.curbed.com/archives/2005_05_hearsttower.jpg

so....they were done on the gerkin before that building in new york was even planned..its Fosters "thing", why he liked triangles is beyond me//they do look nice i guess.

Their strong.

Their strong.

That's not all. This will be Calgary first steel-frame skyscraper. By using Foster's trademark external bracings, Encana will save about 30% of their steel costs. The move to a steel frame already bypasses much of the pressure, as Calgary seen quite large concrete shortages and skyrocketing costs of construction in the last few years.

The design isn't that spectacular (although it is very nice) but I do love the pods.

I love it. it's so ... massive.

It's a nice rendering, but it's out of scale. Makes it look like Petro and a number of other buildings are taller than Encana.

EnCana IS the tallest building in that rendering.

EnCana IS the tallest building in that rendering.

I understand that. I'm saying that the rendering makes it look like it's not. Notice that though Encana is in the foreground, Petro actually looks taller.

Nice pic D.

It's pretty but the interlaced triangles were just done at NYC's Hearst.

http://www.curbed.com/archives/2005_05_hearsttower.jpg

Ummm... actually they've been done numerous times around the world... it's nothing unique to NYC.

Anyways, the Encana Tower is really going to be a nice addition to Calgary!

It is PERFECT for Calgary's skyline. Foster does it again!
It is a beauty!

Gorgeous tower. I have only just understood the shape of the tower after knowing about it for over a week now.

It is amazing! A big boost for Calgary skyline! The design is superb!

I think it's a great looking tower.

I think its a pretty nice design, IMO it will add greatly to Calgary's character and identity.

Complements the skyline very well, and adds height.

Brilliant - will look spectular in what is already a very impressive skyline.

Love the shape.

Stunning. A few more non-boxy designed towers like this and Calgary could have the most interesting skyline in Canada.

Not sure if I like it with the skyline but definately an interesting project.

Any new news on the project?

Found this at skyscraperpage, thank CalguyAB.

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A few more...

This one is amazing!
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http://i17.tinypic.com/5y9hr43.jpg

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Once again thanks CalguyAB

:eek2: GREAT

The Bow is now u/c (Boris550 August 11, 2007 ssp)
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Historic York Hotel's facade taken apart brick by brick
It will be incorporated into The Bow

Kim Guttormson, Calgary Herald
Published: Monday, June 18, 2007


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The York Hotel will start disappearing this week -- the careful removal of every brick being the first step in preserving the building's facade.

As part of The Bow development, the 78-year-old hotel will become the cornerstone of a complex housing retail and cultural space on the south side of 6th Avenue S.E.

But first, specialized crews will dismantle what was billed as the city's first "modern hotel" so that a 20-metre pit can be dug for a parkade. Eventually, two of the hotel's exterior walls will be resurrected around a new structure.

"People may look and think, my God, we're destroying it," said David Jefferies, with Zeidler Partnership Architects, "but this is how we're saving it."

By 2011, the two blocks straddling the corners of 6th Avenue and Centre Street will be reinvented. The Bow -- a 58-storey, Norman Foster-designed office tower that will house EnCana's head office -- will dominate the north block.

A smaller, seven-storey complex will be built to the south. Heritage advocates are pleased the York is being incorporated into the plan, with its facade flowing into a more modern structure, giving the impression of two separate buildings side by side.

However, the York building isn't structurally sound, and the interior has been renovated so often it no longer has historic significance.
As well, the floors couldn't hold the weight that retail or cultural space will demand.

The York's real value, said city heritage planner Darryl Cariou, is its south and west facades and the concrete friezes that run in a strip near the base and along the roof, and those will all be saved.

"The primary heritage of the buildings are in the facades and friezes, and those are certainly being preserved. It's one of very few examples of this style of building, the art deco flavour to it," he said.

The other two walls are made of a different, cheaper brick and don't have friezes, because they originally stood alongside another building and faced the back lane.

The York is also important because it anchors a block of heritage buildings along 7th Avenue S., including the Legion, built in 1922, and the 1913 St. Regis Hotel.

Jefferies said it's also important to preserve the York because of its history -- it housed CFCN radio in its heyday.

Preserving the building presents some unique challenges, in part because of the materials of which it's made. The bricks, for example, are soft, constructed from lime mortar. And, Jefferies said, many are water damaged, making it likely some won't survive the move.

Each brick will be removed, its condition analyzed and then stored on pallets that indicate which part of the wall they came from.

The plan is to have new bricks built from the same type of clay, even though the original quarry is no longer in operation, and then use both in the new walls.

"It's like a giant 3-D puzzle," Richard Tucker, vice-president of development for Matthews Southwest, said of putting the pieces back together.

The colourful concrete friezes present another problem. While a typical frieze is a piece of carved art attached to the building, these are actually part of the building.

Jefferies said that when the York was built in 1929, as they were pouring the concrete for the roof, they also poured it into moulds for the design across the top of the building. So far, he's only confirmed two other buildings in North America using that method to create a frieze -- a theatre in Los Angeles and one in Denver. It is fitting, Jefferies said, because the man who designed the friezes worked for a Hollywood film studio as a graphic artist.

The method used means the friezes -- with their fiddleheads and fronds and cogs that Jefferies thinks are film reels -- can't just be detached. Crews will now saw them off, trying to cut along existing cracks.

Jefferies said there is a chance the friezes won't survive removal attempts. So rubber moulds are being taken as a precaution against catastrophe, allowing the design to be exactly duplicated if need be.

Detailed evidence documenting the building's appearance -- including a laser survey and photos -- has been compiled so it can be recreated. However, one thing will change. There will be an arcade, similar to the Bay's at street level, so there is better pedestrian access to the building.
Paint chips have been analyzed to determine the original colour of the friezes -- paler than the hues now in use, Jefferies said.

"Many people say 'why are you saving the York?' " said the architect, who spent months researching the building's history. "The hidden history and unforeseen uniqueness is what makes it really worth it."

The city's Cariou said that while the York is less than 80 years old, it doesn't mean it's not historic. "This is our history. If we don't keep it, it will never be really old."

kguttormson@theherald.canwest.com

(http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=131013)
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Yeah the cross-bracing makes it interesting.

I think the York looks fine the way it does, the generated image is a little off but I guess we'll have to wait and see the final product. It reminds me a little of the Hearst Tower in New York, so we could see a stunner.

Has anyone got any construction updates on the Bow itself or is it a little premature to ask? Very nice looking, icing on the cake for Calgary.

Did the height get reduced from 247m?

I like it! Very nice! Calgary looks awesome

This Building is INCREDIBLE!!

WOW! the cross bracing looks great! And the color is nice too.

i really like the atrium!

The triangular pattern makes me think of Foster immediately. Really nice.

Looks like a combination of Toronto City Hall, Trump Chicago, and John Hancock:) Well done Calgary!!

Wow what a beautiful tower.

This is huge for Calgary. Can't wait!

I love the "unconventional" interior design.

Must have an amazing energy rating. Will the cross-braced facade have active louvres for cooling during summer ("breathable")?

Nice example of how progress can coexist with conservation

Is there any word/rumors on other oil companies competing with this excellent building?

This is a massive building for Calgary skyline...but anyway it's nice :)

I love it so much!

Wow, I have never heard about this tower, but from the renders it looks totally awesome and very promising. Co Calgary! :D

Ok I think it's time for an update of this tower! It's been 5 months already!

http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/9863/cdnthebow02lghj7.jpg http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/1672/cdnthebow03lgoy2.jpg

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A visual mock-up of The Bow, courtesy of Sota Glazing and Alberta Glass.
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Mersar from SSP spotted the sample and snapped these pictures
http://www.compscience.info/public/images/2008/bow-feb29-1.jpg

http://www.compscience.info/public/images/2008/bow-feb29-2.jpg

From Calgary Herald online, February 11th, 2008
http://media.canada.com/gallery/BOW%20RISING/THEBOWCAL0211.jpg

From Bokimon on SSP
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v98/bokimon/Architecture/Bow2.jpg

From Boris2k7 on SSP
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It is great they have finnaly started digging. Cant wait to see this beauty grow!

Most exciting architectural project under construction in Canada. Hopefully it will spawn a little bit of architectural renaissance in Calgary.

first time i see this project. what a wonderful tower :)

never heard of it, but it looks really nice, kind of remind me of the city hall of toronto.

I don't even know what else of the old York hotel will be preserved other than its facade. should the facade be the only thing that will be preserved into the complex?

The facade is the only thing being preserved.

We need updates?! This is too important to miss...

stunning!I love it!

very impressive - design and size

very impressive - design and size

Really?!!
i find its way too big.
Doesin't it take up 2 blocks or something?

Yes it does, the old York Hotel and the block right beside it.

Yes it does, and thank God, I was beginning to think all that Calgary would get out of the oil boom was a bunch of condos and expensive pickups. This building is truly a monument for Calgary to grow/live around. Yee-Haa!! (Sorry, that's just my try at being a little Stampeder...)

It's quite fat. but I like it :) Nice design with the green stuff in it. The designs of foster are always nice :)

Yes it does, and thank God, I was beginning to think all that Calgary would get out of the oil boom was a bunch of condos and expensive pickups. This building is truly a monument for Calgary to grow/live around. Yee-Haa!! (Sorry, that's just my try at being a little Stampeder...)

Agreed, with so much money, it's about time Calgary had something nice to show for it. Took them long enough, but better late than never. You'd never know this city was stinking rich based on the buildings they have. Hopefully, the Bow will prompt Calgary to begin developing in a more sophisticated manner.

Attention to good design and architecture has been practically non existent up until now. Things are looking up.

The Bow is currently undergoing the longest continuous pouring of a foundation for any Canadian structure.

30 hours, 68 mixer loads and 12 pumping trucks involved.

Images taken by Bokimon from SSP's Calgary Thread

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Looks like a giant mechanical spider infestation has consumed the hole.

Here's the webcam!

http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/3995/bowwebcamoct31uq2.jpg

Wow, its changed so much

http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-content/uploads/fosterbowincanada.jpg
Construction pic
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Beautiful. This Encana building is going to be a real gem.

I LOVE IT.
Nice design !!!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fa/Encentre-rendering1.jpg/200px-Encentre-rendering1.jpg

Design looks cool!! ^^

Here's the webcam!

http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/3995/bowwebcamoct31uq2.jpg

I like that shape. Also a very good position for the webcam. :)

Wow.
It's going to be great:
This will be a really nice landmark for Calgary. :)

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It would have been a stupid idea to preserve the facade of the old York Hotel. What will people think of the facade from the inside of the lowrise portion?

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Posted by Jimby

Bow update:

Bow webcam
http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/6154/20081211160653dz1.jpg

Calgary Herald, Dec. 19th:
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Also, The Bow has it's own website. www.thebowcalgary.com
Some new stuff:
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http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/1774/bow2dx4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Cool !

Upon completion this will instantly be the nicest skycraper between Vancouver and Toronto (in my humble opinion). King, or Queen, of the Praries. :)

Depending on execution, the Bow might be one of the, if not the best, skyscraper in the country.

Work is now starting on the 6th level of the core.

From Mersar on SSP:

Bow - Feb 27/2009
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The diagrid beginning to take shape:
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February 25th
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March 3rd
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Both courtesy of RicoLance21

At last!!! Its rising now. Time is over to look at renders!

April 7, 2009
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April 13, 2009
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Spooof (http://www.flickr.com/photos/spooof/) on Flickr:

So nice to see this baby rise....and funny how very provincial it looks right next to it.

Thanks for posting!

So nice to see this baby rise....and funny how very provincial it looks right next to it.

Thanks for posting!

What I find bizarre is how Calgary goes from high end massive office tower to a natural landscape in literally a few blocks. Just in the distance you can almost envision the frontier by looking at that river and wood lands. What gets me is that you know that landscape just goes on forever and ever. It really is a wilderness out there.

Beautiful looking tower. I love how the footprint is immediately identifiable on the ground too. :)

Calgary DT is beautiful, but I really think they should go further up! the land is flat and tallness will look amazing!

Good point, isaidso!

I haven't been there yet, but I am eager to go!

Don't panic at bow's delay
Credit crunch slows building worldwide
Calgary Herald
2 April 2009

Before anyone fears that delaying construction of the seven-storey secondary building at the Bow site is a sign of Calgary's impending apocalypse, some perspective is in order.

Globally, the credit crisis has halted work on 142 --or 11 per cent--of 1,324 skyscraper projects, according to Emporis GmbH, a German company that tracks skyscraper development.

Work is stalled on the five tallest buildings on five continents, including the Spire, a planned 150-storey tower in Chicago.

Also on hold is the Nakheel Tower in Dubai, proposed to be nearly a full kilometre in height.

There's a gaping hole where the Spire was supposed to be built and, in lower Manhattan, half-built sites include two skyscrapers and a pit where another was supposed to rise.

A delay on the comparatively puny south building at the Bow is unfortunate, considering that a heritage building, the York Hotel, was taken down brick by brick in hopes of reassembling its facade on site.

Yet, in the big picture, it is hardly a catastrophe.

It would have been much different if the main tower of the Bow, the future headquarters of EnCana Corp. in Calgary's core, was scrapped, but unlike the modern-day towers of Babel that are now little more than expensive holes in the ground, Calgary is fortunate that it is still getting its iconic skyscraper.

It won't be long before Calgarians see a dramatic change at the Bow site. With steel girders arriving from Ontario and Edmonton, the skeletal superstructure of 58-storey Bow will begin rising at the rate of one storey a week, according to David Jefferies, the project's architect of record.

The agreement for the York Hotel site stipulates that construction must begin within a year of the completion of the Bow's main tower, scheduled for early 2011. That's a much better outcome than history has dealt other projects in downtown Calgary, where booms and busts have befell much grander edifices.

A few blocks away from the Bow, the ghost of another boom is buried beneath a downtown plaza adjacent to the 41-storey First Canadian Centre, which was completed in 1983. The site was to have a second tower, even bigger than the Bow. But the proposed 64-storey second tower at First Canadian Centre was never built, and today a plaza at that site provides some much-welcomed el-bow room in the concrete jungle.

It's difficult to imagine that a halt on the south building at the Bow will have much impact on Calgary's psyche, even though it is part of the city's showpiece project. In a city driven by fossil fuels where people think they can be billionaires overnight, a dose of sober reflection certainly won't hurt. Yet Richard White, formerly of the Calgary Downtown Association and the city's planning commission, says work on main tower will overshadow any negative mood surrounding the York Hotel site.

"Psychologically, the biggest urban project in Canada is still going forward," says White.

He feels the above-grade work stoppage at the Bow's south building may actually be a good thing.

"There is an opportunity for us to rethink that whole part of the project and how it connects to Olympic Plaza and Stephen Avenue. It could come back in a much more innovative way," says White, who works as a media and government liaison for an architecture firm.

The Bow is one of eight office towers under construction in Calgary, including the one million-square-foot Phase I of the $1-billion Eighth Avenue Place.

Downtown office vacancy rates of 4.5 per cent in this city remain the envy of North America.

In Manhattan, the rate is more than 11 per cent. Our five-year projected rate still remains much lower than the 10 per cent that White says is considered healthy.

As oil prices rose, Calgary's office vacancy rates went from just under 12 per cent in 2005 to less than one per cent in 2007.

In Chicago, the uncertain future of the Spire, designed by renowned Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, has created a bit of a funk in a city pitching itself for the 2016 Summer Olympics. Yet, don't cry for Calatrava. He's the guy whom Calgary is hiring to design a pair of $25-million pedestrian bridges over the Bow River.

I dont understand, were this good news or bad news?
I really didnt catch what the article aims for?!

I dont understand, were this good news or bad news?
I really didnt catch what the article aims for?!

In context with the other article on the same day posted in another Calgary project thread :
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=780100

hopefully construction starts to pick up
im a big fan of this project :)

Financing has been secured, and it's full steam ahead.

Taken today from the webcams:

South side
http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/7438/south.jpg (http://img196.imageshack.us/my.php?image=south.jpg)

North side
http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/3967/north.jpg (http://img34.imageshack.us/my.php?image=north.jpg)

May 2nd, West side
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Image by Jimby on SSP

This is an exciting project. I love new tallests.

Quality architecture too.

j

thanks for the great news CtrlAltDel!!!!!!
Along with Trump Toronto, the best project under construction in Canada!!!!!!

I'm so excited for this building! Best in Canada!

I like it :okay:

Yes - a very nice construction.

Great ptoject really!
but very slow if u ask me!

Great ptoject really!
but very slow if u ask me!

The reason why it doesnt look like it made alot of progress is because they changed their steel suppliers 5 months ago which took them so much time to produce steel. right now, they are 15 levels behind :ohno::ohno::ohno::bash::bash::bash::bash:

so now when will it be completed?

so now when will it be completed?
Its expected to be finished in july 2010 but i think its gonna be around october/november 2010.

thats sucks, when i first heard about this project i was hoping it would be ready for my trip to alberta next summer :(

looks cheap

At over $1 billion, it's not cheap.

and it won't look cheap either. :)

well i gotta admit, calgary does have a respectable looking skyline:cheers:

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^^^^floor 12 in construction

yes!!!!!!!!!!!!:banana:

can someone in calgary post some updated pics, as they would be greatly appreciated :)

have the reached floor 13 yet?

^^^^^^you can always go to www.skyscraperpage /forum for updates of calgary construction... youll see that the bow and eighth av. place arent the only highrises in construction........and they just finished floor 12:banana:http://i42.tinypic.com/33aqfqh.jpg

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=167362 heres the link

thanks for the tip :)

July 3rd, by awvan on flickr:

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Looks very wonderful!

Looks like it grew three floors in a month. Not the fastest in the world, but still a decent pace.

Blame the weather not me :P

The Bow - 2009/07/30

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Not alot of progress recently, but it is just good to see this one under construction.

Fast pace of Construction : About 21 floors have been built

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The Bow update

August 23, 2009

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Glass is finally being put on :banana:
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floor 25 :banana::banana::banana:

this beauty is gonna redefine Calgary's skyline :cheers:

go Calgary!

That's some quality glass.:cheers:

cool project!

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I count 17 floors so far and now we can catch a glimps of what kind of glass or color will be covering it, Thanks you Isaido for the update

I count 17 floors so far and now we can catch a glimps of what kind of glass or color will be covering it, Thanks you Isaido for the update

Your enthusiasm has been a pleasant addition to SSC. Welcome aboard!

Simply MASSIVE! This will be simply stunning!

Yep, thank you Encana! Hopefully, Imperial Oil will build a new tower as well.

Your enthusiasm has been a pleasant addition to SSC. Welcome aboard!

That is very kind of you Isaido. Well, some people call it an addiction or obsession. I am addicted to Skyscrapers and designs that will work, like these recent projects in Calgary.

Calgary has a lot of potentials and really need to work on it. And once Bow and the rest are finished, it can easily beat Houston or Dallas or Denver.

I hope to see an ever taller one soon again

At the rate Calgary has developed over the last 50 years, I wouldn't be surprised if Calgary built a 300 m + tower within the next 10 years. The culture in Alberta is more aggressive and brash than in central Canada by necessity. Maybe Canada's first super tall will happen here. It wouldn't be a shock if that transpired.

The camera has been raised :banana: floor 27 U/C


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At the rate Calgary has developed over the last 50 years, I wouldn't be surprised if Calgary built a 300 m + tower within the next 10 years. The culture in Alberta is more aggressive and brash than in central Canada by necessity. Maybe Canada's first super tall will happen here. It wouldn't be a shock if that transpired.

Calgary has a law called " Shadow by law" which means that buildings can't be really high. The original bow proposal was 303m but Calgary has forced them the lower the height. Calgary couldve had 300m + supertalls 15 years ago but the law is the only barrier :bash:

Calgary has a law called " Shadow by law" which means that buildings can't be really high. The original bow proposal was 303m but Calgary has forced them the lower the height. Calgary couldve had 300m + supertalls 15 years ago but the law is the only barrier :bash:

Could you please explain how many storey's a 300m tall skyscraper would count?

( if I was a champion in math, I ll be an architect myself and the most happy woman on Earth! ) :nuts::lol:

... btw, I like the aggressive brash attitude of Calgarians, I should come over and stay there ... :)

Could you please explain how many storey's a 300m tall skyscraper would count?

( if I was a champion in math, I ll be an architect myself and the most happy woman on Earth! ) :nuts::lol:

... btw, I like the aggressive brash attitude of Calgarians, I should come over and stay there ... :)

It`s about 75 storey's high.

hmmmm...that is tall enough for me to enjoy a great sunny summer afternoon in the city walking around looking up and try not to get hit by a car!

thank you Ukraine

The Bow update from Ricolance21
September 7, 2009

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A relative of mine just returned yesterday from Calgary. She said is was a beautiful city. Very impressive construction photos, I'll keep an eye on this project.

and its moving upwards rapildy, impressive!

Here's the Bow in respect to the rest of the skyline from SurrealPlaces

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Love this one! Calgary ROCKS!

cool picture...

btw, Isaido, if Encana is building this one, which tower will Imperial Oil come up with? I am so anxious. Will the Bow be the tallest in Calgary with 59storeys?

It's just wishful thinking on my part that Imperial Oil will build a new tower. Suncor just bought Petro Canada, so maybe they will eventually build new digs. Once again, it's just a prognostication based on hope, than anything else.

The Bow will be Calgary's tallest building.

The original bow proposal was 303m but Calgary has forced them the lower the height.

Isn't there a rule on this forum over making stuff up?


Suncor is loaded with sublease space after buying Petro Canada and canning several thousand jobs. They ain't building anything for the forseeable future.

Calgary will be sooo overbuilt once this boom is completed. Expect more takeovers and more sublet space hitting the market and don't expect anything significant to be built for at least 10+ years. Also expect the continuing shift towards more efficient open floor plans for backroom offices of the larger corporations further allieviating the need for additional space.

I also think the 303 metre thing was just a wishful thinking rumour. I cannot imagine Calgary turning down a supertall over a shadow on a trail issue.

if you guys dont believe me...Go search "shadow by law" on google :cheers:

The Bow has gone through a height reduction, but I can't remember what the original height was supposed to be.

this is going to be a masterpiece, fantastic for the Calgary skyline

you guys dont believe me...Go search "shadow by law" on google

I'm not denying the shadowing bylaw. I'm well aware of it. I'm denying that the Bow was ever seriously considered as 303 metres tall. It's just an "urban" legend such as the 1000 foot Manulife tower in Toronto.

The Bow has gone through a height reduction, but I can't remember what the original height was supposed to be.

Somewhere around 250m.

Definately the best tower at the moment, congrats! :)

Very cool form of the building. instant classic

I was searching for The BOW online, and came upon, what looks like an updated Sequencing Diagram!
Structure expected to be completed in a 1 year 1/2 :banana:

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These lights made me laugh for no reason :lol::lol::lol: Anyway heres an update
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The cladding....:drool::drool:

Click on image for full size close-up view

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Will there be atriums on each floor? with tree's and plants like on the original rendering?

^^^^^^

Theres no more wilderness in this skyscraper

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Source: http://www.fosterandpartners.com/Projects/1417/Default.aspx

but if you look closely at the pictures of the very first page, you can see atriums with trees planted in as well. Nowadays there are more of these so called " Green Projects" ongoing elsewhere which is surely a good idea. I thought that the Bow is amongst them.

^^^^
They changed the design...The trees aren't the only addition that makes the Bow a green structure and to be honest im happy that this building isn't a jungle anymore (imagine how much upkeep would it take!)...Its design,The materials used, special technology that saves energy and water therefore i cannot approve saying that the bow isn't green anymore
Have a good day :)

So nice how the S-shaped balcony walks in between the columns.

From BFHeadstone

District Energy Centre
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Three reflections in one
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wow; perfect cladding.

Haha I was on google street view in Calgary and I noticed the construction site and signs.

2009 10 14
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Nice building!! Is it going to become the tallest in Calgary?

Nice building!! Is it going to become the tallest in Calgary?

Tallest building West of Toronto in Canada.

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I count 20 something floors! way more to go...

I don't know why but this building reminds me Detroit...

The cladding is awesome!

the glass should look nice when its done

I left Calgary several months ago after 2 years and this is one of the reasons that make me wanna go back so bad! this building is AWE$OME!

South on Centre Street, with the ever-shrinking Calgary Tower in the background.
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The glass is really coming along. Staircase zig-zagging on the left of the building.
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The other side of the building, facing the sun. Looking forward to seeing what the transparent glass will look like when it's on.
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Cladding looks great - and that truss structure does like quite impressive! :)

More glass!

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Pictures taken by me, from my crappy camera.

Wow-- I LOVE the cladding.

So proud of Calgary on this one :)

Wow-- I LOVE the cladding.

So proud of Calgary on this one :)

:cheers: :cheers:

It's just so refreshingly modern after all the faux-history they have in their bank towers.

An interview has been done from a friend from SSP about the Bow

http://www.cbc.ca/eyeopener/

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wow! thanks for sharing Ukraine... it looks indeed amazing!

A second tower??? where? where? ... oh that will be just magnificent to have a second one.

What I was also thinking? what if they build a tower, a Cilinder shaped tall skyscraper of some 70 storey's right in front or in between the curves of the Bow!? that could be awesome right?

Ukraine - Regulator75, the photographer who took the photo you posted does not wish to have his work posted on the website. Please cease and desist from doing so.

wow loving this building..cant wait for updates

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its very nice pics...

cool, tnx for the update.

wow, the Bow looks massive.

amazing photos

Amazing. Why does Calgary have such a 5mil+ skyline when it only has a million people? Is it purely oil?

Amazing. Why does Calgary have such a 5mil+ skyline when it only has a million people? Is it purely oil?

Yes, for the same reason Midland TX and Tulsa have so many talls for their size. The energy complex in Alberta is huge and there is still a need for more office space in Calgary. Office towers are to Calgary what condos are to Vancouver.:)

Yes, for the same reason Midland TX and Tulsa have so many talls for their size. The energy complex in Alberta is huge and there is still a need for more office space in Calgary. Office towers are to Calgary what condos are to Vancouver.:)

and that is why I begin to like Calgary even more so day after day.

I don't know how that comes, but I know and sense that Calgary will have an even brighter future and play a major role in this century. :)

Maybe I should move to Calgary. Will I be welcome to the city of no nonsense, hard working people, joie de vivre and the free spiritness and pioneering? :)

I don't see how a collection of office towers makes a pleasant city Charlotte. Not saying Calgary isn't, but just referring to your standards of a nice city.

I don't see how a collection of office towers makes a pleasant city Charlotte. Not saying Calgary isn't, but just referring to your standards of a nice city.

Wherever there are Skyscrapers, I will feel right at home.

You won't believe it, but I somehow don't like Vancouver at all.

Indeed. Vancouver is the European valhalla of a liveable Skyscraper city, with all the groundfloor program, small scale and residential scrapers.

This is so Cooolll , i love it

Neat!

After Absolute World, this is the most anticipated project in Canada from my perspective. This will be a tremendous boost to the impressive yet very dull Calgary skyline.

Oh yes, that is true. Although Calgary has a fun skyline, yet it was not impressive, but this Lady there, is going to be the trend setter and have an huge impact on Calgary's future projects am sure.

Good job though.

Chalk one up for Calgary!

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By me :)

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Well done Canada/Calgary on this gorgeous tower, I must say that I'm very impressed by the pace of the construction,it's growing as quick as a mushroom!:)

8/10

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^^
The glazing is sleek and impressive.
The renders don't do it justice.

Roughly another 25 floors to go?

It does look different than the renders.......

It does look different than the renders.......

How so? I don't think people considered that the curve will make the building look quite fat head on. From all other angles it will look much more slender. Or were you talking about the glazing?

I really like this project! It;s gonna be great when it's complete!

Oh now we can see how it will look like when finished= awesome!!!

tastes like for more for Calgary, don't you think so?

great addition to the city's skyline.

great progress.

the cladding is ridiculously nice...

the cladding is ridiculously nice...

How come " ridiculously" ? :lol:

You are funny Yin Yang :lol:

H&R REIT pays back Fairfax; Real estate trust sells $230-million of bonds
27 January 2010
The Globe and Mail

When the financial world was melting down in December, 2008, H&R Real Estate Investment Trust got a $200-million financial lifeline from insurer Fairfax Financial.

H&R REIT was badly in need of cash to finance construction of The Bow tower in Calgary, the future home of oil company EnCana.

Fairfax stepped up by purchasing $200-million of five-year debentures from H&R REIT, bonds that carried an 11.5 per cent interest rate. It was expensive capital, but the bond offering kept H&R REIT going, and The Bow moving forward. From Fairfax's point of view, this was a great place to put its money to work, as the underlying assets were strong, and the insurer was able to exploit a credit market crisis.

In the latest sign of just how credit markets have improved over the past 13 months, H&R REIT is back in the bond market Wednesday, with pair of bond offerings that will raise cash earmarked for retiring the debentures sold to Fairfax.

Fairfax will receive $230-million for the paper it holds, for a tidy 15 per cent capital gain over the past year. Fairfax has also received interest payments on its debentures over the past year.

H&R REIT sold $115-million of five-year debt that pays 5.196 per cent interest, and a second slug of seven-year debt that banks 5.902 per cent. The bonds were purchased in a bought deal financing by a syndicate of dealers led by RBC Dominion Securities and TD Securities.

nice pics from Jimby

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What is located inside that tower btw?

I 've never been to Calgary, that is why I ask. is it a restaurant that rotates or just some office etc?

Calgary will look a lot different in the summer this year!

What is located inside that tower btw?

I 've never been to Calgary, that is why I ask. is it a restaurant that rotates or just some office etc?

Calgary will look a lot different in the summer this year!

This tower?

http://www.globalphotos.org/calgary/20060924/IMG_0227-s.jpg

There's an observation deck - views : http://www.globalphotos.org/calgary-tower.htm

The tower's website - http://www.calgarytower.com/

^^Yes, thank you...:) am going to check it out.

Nice updates thanxs.

I think the Calgary tower is one of the ugliest observation towers i have seen. I have been up the Skytower (Auckland),CN tower (toronto), Skylon tower (Niagara falls) & Stratosphere tower (Las Vegas) and think they are all way more attractive than this one. I think a great city like Calgary could have done a lot better. The Skytower in Auckland (New Zealand) is the best looking by far!

How come " ridiculously" ? :lol:

You are funny Yin Yang :lol:


it be 'cause i'm really impressed by the silver part :banana:

p.s. the observation tower in calgary is brutal, and not in a good way

I do agree on the Observation tower..... it can be adjust or improved in height and appearance a bit for sure. ... they can make it look shining/gleaming silverish new age looking bla bla bla, maybe add and build one or two more floors on top of it! ?!

Probably something will be done with the tower in the next coming few years. If the historical advocates do not win on this one.
The tower did not strike out for me as ugly when I lived there in 2001 but then again,I was just a mere child. Still am : )

Probably something will be done with the tower in the next coming few years. If the historical advocates do not win on this one.
The tower did not strike out for me as ugly when I lived there in 2001 but then again,I was just a mere child. Still am : )

and very kind and intelligent. :)

Great new pictures by SurrealPlaces (http://www.flickr.com/photos/45890708@N04/sets/72157623063453452/)

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Huge diagrid beam on its way to the construction site:

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omg love the design

:applause:

Supreme!!!

calgary is fantastic

Update by Bigtime :cheers:

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I miss my city!!!!