Full Timelapse of the BMO Centre Expansion, from demolition to substantial completion
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ต.ค. 2024
- On March 13, 2024, Calgary Municipal Land Corporation celebrated the substantial completion of the BMO Centre expansion project. To celebrate, we're sharing the complete timelapse of construction, from demolition of the Corral and +15 in December 2020 to substantial completion in March 2024.
What a striking building! I love the way the sun travels across the different parts of the roof and cladding - very cool!
First time I see a project finished on time and on budget. I hope you start a trend here 💪🏽
sad to see the old Corral go. I remember as a kid watching Ed Whalen and Stu Hart with Stampede Wrestling and watching a young John Davidson and the Calgary Centennials, and Calgary Cowboys. Good ole days!
Good ‘ol Gene Kininsky too.
I remember my dad taking Myself and my brother to watching Hockey in the late 60s early 70s the Semi Pro Hockey league Calgary Stampeders, Drumheller Minors, Edmonton Oil Kings and etc.. That was real hockey Bench clearing brawls tons of fights, lots of blood.. That was the first times in the Corral for me..
Awesome how far this has come. It started 2 years later than the strip mall/car wash in my community and looks like it will be completed first.
Going to be back there in 2025 for the Calgary Comic Book Expo. And I cannot wait to go in and see this brand new place for not only to meet some actors, but to see how big this place is. I am looking forward to it for sure ^^
very nice.
Fun fact: This was the same budget as Roger arena Edmonton, plus calgary is building a 1.22 billion dollar arena event center close to it, including everything around it
I helped pour all the concrete in this building 😮
Beautiful!
Looks good
Lets thank the men & women ( blue collar ) that worked through the rain snow ---- & ++++ temps. Without them this building would have never been done on time & budget.
Looks big enough to stick a hockey arena in ;)
Spectactular ! 👏🫶
I wonder when the saddledome will be replaced?🤔
There currently working on the design. Should be completed by 2027.
I wonder about the snow on that slope. Do you need to clean it often?
I remember going to the Corral for Stampede Wrestling with the parents and relatives when Gene Kiniski, Killer Kowalski and the Hart family were still around! OMG am I ever OLD if I remember that! It was literally a RIOT happening at the Corral a few times with Stampede Wrestling and those wild Roller Derby events! It's weird to see the Corral go down in the way it did! In the end it was a tired building meant for an earlier and more brutal time.
I didn't exactly have FOND memories of that because wrestling or roller derby wasn't my thing but for the Corral itself I definitely liked to watch amateur and pro hockey inside of it and those were quite pleasant memories for me in my early youth!
I definitely like the NEW building much better! So much more modern-looking and very functional. I am curious to see what they will do with the Saddledome!
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Nothing can ever come close to the Flames games in the Corral. It probably wasn't making the profits they wanted but for the fans to feel the game like that...never again.
Before the Corral Stampede Wrestling was i the Victoria Pavilion.... guess I'm a bit older than you! :)
@@tempestmkiv YUP! I was a young-un in the 1970's and a teen in the 1980's -- Was a fun time though!
@@StarGateSG7 I was a young un in the 60’s going to stampede wrestling to see Archie Goldie and Abdula the butcher…. Good times for sure!
Fun fact, every construction worker on that site had to pay for parking for their time working on that site.
That wouldn't surprise me in the least.
You're kidding me.
@@chickenmuffin I'm not. I know a few people who worked on that site since day 1. They had to pay for parking or pay to take the train to that site for years.
To be honest trades people build the very buildings everyone uses and they never get a break when building them, ie: free parking, discount on food or coffee etc...
@@kylel8287 I also have to pay for parking or take the train to get to my job, you're not special.
@@brandonking1737 i must be missing something, did I say I was?
Got to love all the people saying it is speed up
It's amazing they can construct a building on schedule. But there's endless construction projects that are 100x smaller on scale all over the city that take years to be addressed. Oh and also to mention, all the pot holes that get crappily patched
You made going to the Saddledome miserable...
Same designer as Rogers Place?
Looks like they used every left over piece of cladding from every job from the last ten years to do the final cladding of the building.
Frequently changing the viewpoint makes it very difficult to follow what is going on.
yes!!! i love the rusty building!!! i love having a building that represents how shitty downtown is with its multiple shades of brown 😍
WOW what build 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🤑🤑🤑 was there a pause for Covid??
start date of 2021 so it seems afterwards
on budget amazing the new arena won't come in at $1.2Billion but way over budget like the Saddle dome was.
they should have built the new NHL Arena on this site. Then tear down the old Saddledome and replace it with the "new BMO Centre.... but that would have made good sense for Calgary. Very archaic old fashioned construction techniques used in this build....everything was assebled on site - no completed panels lifted into place = massive waste of money.
I assembled steel trusses offsite, some weighing as much as 185 000 lbs. So large they required special wide/heavy load permits but ok.
they are already designing a new arena for Calgary, it will be just north of the saddledome
why not a new nhl arena lol
It'll be right down the street from this building in about 4 years
💕Wow💙🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍
It's mostly brown, just like Canada now.
Giant waste of money.
Demolishing that mural was a crime.
Wearing masks outside for a ground breaking ceremony. Yeah that sounds about right.
Huh... WHY??? Another tax payer funded building, just like the so called new arena that the FLAMES should be paying for 100%, instead of being paid for by the tax payers whether we like it or not?
What was wrong with the old BMO Centre? It looked pretty modern to me. Seems like a waste of money to me in these tough economical times! That's Gondek for you, spend spend spend, when it's not her money.
Wow, very ugly building, what a mess
Did they deliberately choose the ugliest design, or was there something worse?
They should’ve went with your design
It’s Calgary, it’s a dump.
@@CtO-nj9uu I did two work "tours" there, instead of South Sudan or Afghanistan. Same thing. No thanks. It's a dump.
not trying to pick fights, but what exactly about the design is bad?
@@hybbfr727 Fr imo, it looks awesome.
Who the F___ would want to live in Canada. ??? Not Me.!!!
Then go live in Tripizdishensk.
Then stay in your little mudhut village, canada doesn't want you either 😂😂
the rest of canada is expensive af, but alberta is currently a great place to live
Canada is the best country in the world.
@@rollingthunderinho Too Cold. The U.S. sucks but Canada is even worse at least our weather is a little more tolerable..
nice looking building, congrats Calgary