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Downtown Calgary has
an eclectic mix of restaurants and bars, cultural venues, shops (notably,
TD Square, Calgary Eaton Centre, Stephen Avenue and Eau Claire Market),
and public places such as Olympic Plaza. Tourist attractions include the
Calgary Zoo, TELUS World of Science, the Telus Convention Center, the area
around Chinatown, the Glenbow Museum, Calgary Tower, the Art Gallery of
Calgary (AGC) and the Center for Arts EPCOR Performing Arts. At 2.5 acres
(1.01 hectares), the Devonian Gardens is one of the largest enclosed urban
gardens in the world, and is located in the 4 th floor of the TD Square
(above the shopping mall ). Located in this case is based shopping mall,
a resident of a large number of shops, including urban areas, Henry Singer,
Holt Renfrew and Harry Rosen. The centre is also at Prince's Island Park,
an urban park located just north of Eau Claire district. Directly south
of downtown and Midtown is the beltline. This area is becoming one of the
densest and most active mixed-use. In the districts popular base is the
"Avenue 17", which is known for its numerous bars and nightclubs,
restaurants and shops. During the Calgary Flames' playoff term in 2004,
17 Avenue with the assistance of more than 50000 fans and followers a night
match. The concentration of the famous red jersey for fans to wear took
to the street moniker playoffs, "Red Mile." Downtown Calgary is
easily accessible through the city of C-Light Rail Transit (LRT) transit
system.
Attractions on the west side
of Calgary
in the historic Heritage Park Village Historic Park, which represents
life in pre-1914 vehicles with Alberta and historical work as a steam
train, and a paddlewheel boat electric streetcar. The village itself includes
a mixture of replica buildings and historic structures left southern Alberta.
Other major attractions are the Olympic Park in Canada (Canada and Olympic
Hall of Fame), Calaway Park amusement park, Spruce Meadows (equestrian
/ super center) and Race City Motorsport Park. In addition to many shopping
areas in downtown, there are a number of large suburban shopping malls
in Calgary. Among the most important are Chinook Centre Mall in the south
and southeast, Westhills and Signal Hill in the south-west, and South
Trail Crossing Deerfoot Meadows in the southeast, Market Mall shopping
centre in the northwest, northeast and SunRidge Mall.
Petro-Canada Centre Calgary the centre can be easily recognized by their
numerous skyscrapers. Some of these structures, as the Calgary Tower and
the Pengrowth Saddledome are quite unique to be symbols of Calgary. Office
buildings tend to focus on commercial, residential towers, while occur
most frequently in central West End and the beltline, south of downtown.
These buildings are iconographic of the city, the booms and busts, and
is easy to recognize the different stages of development that have shaped
the image of downtown. The first skyscraper construction boom took place
during late 1950 and has worked in the 1970's. After 1980, during the
recession caused by falling oil prices and the National Program of Energy,
many highrise construction projects were immediately arrested. It was
not until late 1980 and early 1990 that major construction resumed, initiated
by the Olympic Winter Games of 1988 and spurred by the growth of the economy.
In total, there are
10 office towers that are at least 150 meters (500 feet) (usually around
40 storeys) or more. The biggest of these is Petro-Canada Centre, which
is the highest office tower in Canada outside of Toronto. Calgary Bankers
Hall Tours are also the highest twin towers in Canada. Several large office
towers are planned for the center: the Bow, Jameson Place, Penny Lane
Torres (East and West), Centennial Plaza (two laps), Downtown (two laps),
and the highly anticipated (but only rumour) and Imperial Oil II First
Canadian Centre towers. Since 2007, Calgary has completed 220 tall buildings,
with another 21 under construction, another 13 approved for construction
and another 10 proposed.
To connect a large number of office buildings of downtown,
the city also has the largest network Skyway (high internal pedestrian
bridges), officially called the +15. The name comes from the fact that
bridges are generally 15 feet (4.6 m) above the ground. |
