9th Avenue Parkade and Innovation Centre, Calgary, Canada Building Development, Canadian Architecture
9th Avenue Parkade + Innovation Centre in Calgary
27 June 2022
Design: 5468796 Architecture in collaboration with Kasian Architecture, Interior Design, and Planning
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Photos: James Brittain
9th Avenue Parkade + Innovation Centre, Canada
9th Avenue Parkade + Innovation Centre
The City of Calgary required a downtown parkade to free up multiple lots for development. Understanding the likelihood of the building?s future obsolescence,

municipal officials also wanted a creative solution that would justify the expenditure now and in the future. And so the clients, Calgary Municipal Land

Corporation and the Calgary Parking Authority, asked the collaborative team of 5468796 Architecture and Kasian Architecture, Interior Design and Planning to
design a 510-stall parkade that could be easily converted into an office, light industrial or residential building. The project site ? adjacent to the new Calgary

Library, Calgary City Hall and the Studio Bell, (the National Music Centre) ? included an unbuildable easement for an underground light rail tunnel, which cuts

through the middle of the project site and represents what the city determined was a 20% loss in buildable area.

The design team?s solution is a building in the form of an elliptical helix, bridging the easement and thereby recapturing much of the lost land value. Vehicles enter

at grad...