The Globe and Mail reports today on the subject of mid-rise design in Calgary. Our sister company, Gravity Architecture, is featured in good company. Pictured above is a project Gravity has been engaged by Bellaview Luxury Homes to design for a parcel on 12th Avenue SE adjacent to the Orchards development in up-and-coming East Victoria Park.
The article also discusses the Minto in Sunnyside project by Nyhoff and the Steps project by Sturgess.
This past weekend, the Globe and Mail published an article about the design process behind our Wildwood House. Colleen Seto met with Inertia's Stephen Barnecut as well as the homeowners to delve into the factors that shaped this signature house.
We love this quote from the article:
“It was always amazing to me how vocal people were about the house,” Mr. Dugdale says. “Some people hated it, while others loved it. But that’s okay; when you don’t get a reaction at all, it’s usually because you haven’t really done anything.”
Thanks to Colleen Seto for the article and to Gary Campbell for the photography.
Stephen would like to thanks Homes and Living for featuring him in their Oct/Nov 2014 issue. He would also like to extend thanks to Lisa Monforton for the article, Arda Ozum for the photographs of the Sidebottom Residence, o2 Developments for the photographs of their Mount Pleasant Infill, and Brian Burke for Stephen's portrait.
Calgary Herald article on new Inner City Rowhouse district by Jason Markusoff
Jason Markusoff from the Calgary Herald wrote a short piece about Council's approval of the new R-CG district. This new district allows for R-C2 parcels to be redesignated as R-CG to allow for the construction of rowhouses rather than single-detached or semi-detached houses.
Essentially, by omitting the requirement for sideyards, the R-CG district gives developers more design flexibility in the creation of inner-city freehold projects. As well, the district does not have a parcel width requirement; rather, it has a minimum street facing facade width of 4.2 metres. This gives designers even more flexibility in unit configuration.
We're excited to find out the direction that the communities of Capitol Hill and Banff Trail go with this new district. We think it would be a great fit in their neighbourhoods.
Just a note of clarification: even though it is Stephen that is pictured in front of our Parcside Townhomes, it was in fact Trent that designed this project for Group 905.
