Public school board's new building to feature lots of glass

The Calgary Board of Education will move its headquarters in thesoon-to-be-builtoffice tower near the Dr. Carl Safran School. A courtyard separating the office tower from the school will be joined by a glass pavilion, a dramatic space designed for use as a high-tech display area with large-screen monitors, according to a July 24 Calgary Herald arti.

A community request was to have the tower transparent enough that pedestrians along the busy 8th Street corridor could view the sandstone school. Bentall Real Estate Services, the builder, offered a two-storey high-glass panelled frontage that has been designated for 5,500 square feet of retail use and the south exterior of the tower is set back from the school's alignment. The building's exterior facade above the see-through panels is of green glass with punched-out brick and glass panels pulled forward on each side.

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