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The Centennial Planetarium, located at 701 11 Street SW in Calgary, Alberta, was designed by Calgary architectural firm McMillan Long and Associates and opened in 1967 for the Canadian Centennial, it is one of Calgary's best examples of Brutalist architecture, winning several awards open its opening.
A sentry box in Washington, DC in 1929. A sentry box is a small shelter with an open front in which a sentry or person on guard duty may stand to be sheltered from the weather. Many boxes are decorated in national colours. [1]
The National Music Centre and its collections origins can be traced to the installation of a pipe organ (known as the Carthy Organ) in Calgary’s Jack Singer Concert Hall in 1987. [2] The installation of this instrument was the genesis of the International Organ Festival and Competition operated by TriumphEnt from 1990 to 2002. [ 3 ]
The original site, located on 11 Street SW in Calgary's Downtown West End, closed on June 27, 2011, and was replaced by a new science centre called Telus Spark. The new science centre is located on a 15-acre (61,000 m 2 ) site at 220 St. Georges Drive NE in Nose Creek Valley, north of the Wilder Institute/Calgary Zoo .
The new fitness centre was named the Dr. Neville Lindsay Sport Wellness Centre to honour Calgary's first doctor, who owned the land upon which the facility sits. The new aquatic centre was named The Calgary Foundation Aquaplex, to recognize and celebrate the contributions of The Calgary Foundation through a major gift from an anonymous donor.
Central Memorial Park in Calgary with the Colonel Belcher Hospital in the background The park occupies one entire city block between 12th and 13th Avenues SW, bounded by 2nd and 4th Streets. Totalling 4.68 acres (18,900 m 2 ), the park was designed in 1889 and landscaped in Victorian style.
The museum moved to its current facility in downtown Calgary in 1976, and is funded by the governments of Calgary, Alberta, and Canada, private donors, as well as an endowment provided by Harvie. In 2019, the Glenbow had a total of 148,668 visitors. [1] The museum closed for renovations in 2021 and is scheduled to re-open in 2026. [2]
Halved in width is the box-shaped deep end. Diving is prohibited. [2] The Safari Splash Zone is a water park with a 500-gallon dump bucket, rope bridges, spray guns and other splash stations. Water slides includes the blue slide and the Thunder-Run slide, which was added in the late 90s as an external multi-story addition. The twin red slides ...