![]() ![]() It was where the prairies met the foothills where coyotes hunted rabbits and mice where the cold north wind bit your skin, while the Chinooks eased you through the winter and most of all, where the big, bright, blue sky would make any day of the year more beautiful.īut things changed. The hill was part of a farmer's field, where cattle wandered down to the Bow River. (Submitted by Doug Margach)Īt that point, this was called the North Hill. His youngest brother is to the left and 37th Street N.W. Seventy years ago, as a five-month-old baby, I moved into a brand new three-bedroom bungalow in Parkdale with my parents and two older brothers - not a tree in sight, a few dirt roads waiting for oil to keep the dust down, and the city limits of Calgary running down the road in front of our house.ĭoug Margach stands between his two older brothers near their house in 1956. It sure didn't look like this when I was a kid. Only to the north can the original bare prairie be seen rising up onto Nose Hill, although even this is obscured by high-rise apartment buildings and the University of Calgary campus. Calgary) Tower is barely visible among the city centre skyscrapers. ![]() To the south, the CFCN broadcast tower stands above the Douglas Fir Trail, while to the east, the Husky (a.k.a. Looking west, we can see the now unusable ski jumps standing with the outline of mountains behind. My wife Wanda and I stand on the brow of a hill in northwest Calgary, near where our new condo is being built. This is the latest in CBC Calgary's first person writing series and Doug read his story for us. Brian Tolle Studio designed the sculpture’s integral lighting, tasking m+b with providing power to the fixtures.5:21 First Person: Doug Margach on how Calgary's northwest has changed for the better Calgarian Doug Margach has seen Calgary's northwest change quite dramatically over the decades, and he thinks it's for the better. The sculpture’s top protrudes from the earth at guardrail height, and it will be lit from the inside so that light spills upwards from the plane of the guardrail. The last datum would be formed by the sculpture itself. The in-ground bench lights are shown schematically in the detail sections and in the 3D mock up. ![]() This gives the effect of producing a wash of light that terminates in a flat horizontal line at the underside of the seating surface. The second datum is formed by up-lighting of the concrete benches, such that the angled undersides of the benches are illuminated and the horizontal seating portion stops light from spilling any further upwards. Some sort of larger scale in-ground lights will be required to achieve this. The first such datum corresponds to the up-lit underside of the tree canopies that are planted immediately to the east and west of the plaza. The lighting design is intended to achieve a series of “datums of light” that are experienced as one moves through the project. The plaza is framed by concrete benches that appear to sit on the gabion walls as shown. The plaza uses gabion walls to gently slope upwards from the existing pedestrian path elevation to a flat plaza surface that forms the context for the sculpture. Our project was to design the plaza which surrounds the inverted profile of Mt. ![]()
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