Gravity recently commissioned Bryce Baker, a local architectural photographer to make photos of our award-winning eight-unit multi-residential development. Mount Pleasant 8 was commissioned by RNDSQR on a 30.47mx36.54m corner parcel with one of the first R-CG designations in the City at the time. BMP Construction Management completed the project in 2017.
Seven of the units are two-storey townhouses, and one—located above the garages—is a two-storey apartment. The townhouses all have basements with an additional bedroom. Nine parking stalls are provided on site, with eight garaged stalls, and one exterior visitor stall.
As a nod to tradition, each townhouse has a brick facade. This brick element stands proud of each unit, each of which is massed in the form of a vernacular house. The apartment takes a more contemporary shape, and is sculpted from three interlocking masses.
The townhouses each have their own private amenity space at the rear. Five of these back onto the common courtyard. The apartment unit has a second floor patio on top of the garage, and a third floor balcony off of one of its three bedrooms.
R-CG is a relatively new land use designation. It was developed by the City and other stakeholders to allow for low-density townhouse development in the existing low-density areas of Calgary's inner city. It shares a common street-oriented configuration where each unit has a door to the street and there are no units behind one another.
We hope you enjoy these images as much as we do. To learn more about this project, please visit its project page.
This project won the BILD Calgary Region SAM Awards in the category of Best New Design Villa/Duplex/Townhome 1,200 sq. ft. and over.
