Telus Sky
Calgary, Canada
Client
Westbank Project Corporation | Telus | Allied Development Corporation
Typology
Residential
Size m2/ft2
70,606 / 760,000
Status
Completed
— The office floor plates are as large as possible to maximize workspace and flexibility. The residential floor plates are slender in order to maximize daylight and views. The offices benefit from smooth glass facades, and the residences demand balconies with views and privacy.
— Our design transforms from the full floorplate in the bottom half into a slender slab that stretches diagonally across the site, from corner to corner at the top.
"How do you make two different buildings with different programs and different floorplates appear like a single silhouette on the skyline? And more importantly: how do you make a 700-foot-tall building elegant?"Bjarke Ingels - Founder & Creative Director, BIG
“Northern Lights draws in the public, in a similar way to a firework show. It has an amazing sense of real-time motion and energy, along with the build-up to a spectacular crescendo. BIG's TELUS Sky design is simultaneously symmetrical and curvilinear. Its twisting and mineralogical façade provided the perfect canvas to channel such a dynamic symbol of nature as the Northern Lights. For me, it was a chance to create something very analog on a system that is very digital. Like the building itself, there is an inherent contradiction, in that technology can be both a form of art as well as a tool for its creation.”Douglas Coupland - Artist
Partner in Charge
Beat Schenk
Bjarke Ingels
Thomas Christoffersen
Project Manager
Carl Macdonald
Christopher White
Project Architect
Michael Zhang
Stephanie Choi
Project Designer
Iannis Kandyliaris
Project Team
Alex Wu
Annette Miller
Barbora Srpková
Ben Caldwell
Benjamin Johnson
Benzion Rodman
Brian Rome
Bryan Hardin
Carolien Schippers
Choonghyo Lee
Christoffer Gotfredsen
Daisy Zhong
David Spittler
Davide Maggio
Deb Campbell
Dennis Harvey
Douglass Alligood
Elena Bresciani
Florencia Kratsman
Gaurav Janey
Haoyue Wang
Ho Kyung Lee
Iris van der Heide
Isshin Morimoto
Ivy Hume
Jakob Lange
Jan Leenknegt
Jennifer Phan
Julie Kaufman
Justyna Mydlak
Ku Hun Chung
Manon Gicquel
Mateusz Rek
Maya Shopova
Megan Van Artsdalen
Michael Evola
Peter Lee
Quentin Stanton
Tara Hagan
Terrence Lallak
Thea Wiradinata
Tianqi Zhang
Yaziel Juarbe
Yifu Sun
Yoanna Shivarova
Project Leader, Interiors
Francesca Portesine
Project Team, Interiors
Agne Rapkeviciute
Cristian Lera Silva
Jack Lipson
John Kim
Lina Bondarenko
Nicholas Coffee
Awards
Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, Best Tall Building 200m-299m, 2021 Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, Award of Excellence Winner, 2020
Collaborators
DIALOG
Integral Group
Glotman Simpson Consulting Engineers
LMDG Building Code Consultants
Gunn Consultants Inc.
Bunt & Associates Consulting Engineers
Luxigon
Buda Facade Engineering Ltd.
Morrison Hershfield
RSI Studio
BIG Ideas