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Stretching across two city blocks, The Bow is a 58-story tower in Calgary, Alberta. This enormous project holds the record for being the tallest building in Calgary, and for having the largest continuous foundation concrete pour in Canadian history.
The Bow used 43,000 tons of structural steel and 83,000 m2 (900,000 ft2) of glass. The concrete pour took place over the course of three shifts, involved 500 people, and simultaneously required between 75 and 95 concrete trucks pouring continuously.
Through careful building orientation, the tower is able to harness the power of the sun to heat and cool the structure. Its signature “bow” shape vastly reduces wind resistance, increases exposure to sunlight, and allows for more windows to be incorporated into its design.
This was the view from the Crescent Heights Hill in early November 2016. Very warm weather and very crowded. This is downtown Calgary.
by Dan Kim
Sunset at Calgary Bay, where many people departed Scotland for the last time during the highland clearances.
The light was cracking!
Well, for a photo taken out of the passenger side window of our car as Lisa and I were driving back from a scrumptous brunch on Friday, i thought this turned out pretty well!
This was taken just south of the Deerfoot Trail and 32nd Avenue NE interchange, looking west, and shows the Sam Livingston Fish Hatchery in the foreground, and some central Calgary homes overlooking the Calgary Tower (left middle, red top) and a portion of the downtown skyline.
Also featured is an amazing Chinook arch of cloud and sky, a sign of the temperate weather that has been prevailing for the past few weeks (I am still waiting for everything to turn green, though, as you can see)...this made for wonderful contrast with the buildings below!
Hare Krsna Calgary (manual focus lens) Calgary’s branch of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) celebrated The Festival of Chariots on Sunday, the first such celebration since the pandemic began. The Festival of Chariots, also known as Rath Yatra, was first held in Calgary in 2004. The event has been held in major cities around the world, after originating in Jagannatha Puri.