Once more, the Province of Alberta forsakes its architectural and cultural heritage in search for some quick savings.

This Modernist apartment tower, one of the first built west of downtown, has been an Oliver icon for sixty years.

An architectural oddity, Hillcrest School was one of the last built by the ill-fated West Jasper Place School Board.

This masterful slice of spiritual Modernism lays hidden in the Eastend neighbourhood of Fulton Place.

This distinctive Westend property was once home to noted Chinese-Canadian painter Lee Kow Yuen.

“It was known as the CN Tower a decade before Toronto had one of its own.

And, for a time, it reigned supreme as Edmonton’s tallest building at a full 27 storeys.”

A little slice of West Coast architecture hides in Edmonton’s William Hawrelak Park.

Canada’s first municipal planetarium is Edmonton’s greatest mid-century jewel.

2021 turned out to be a bad year for Edmonton’s built heritage. Gone with it was our “Shade of Expo ‘67.”

Shrouded by shrubs and hidden away where you’d least expect it, this enchanting piece of fantastically retro public art is one of Edmonton’s best.

This bank branch might be easy to ignore, but in its plain beauty lies a great — if small — example of Modernist design.

This high school, once the biggest between Vancouver and the Great Lakes, brought recognition to a struggling town. While it’d help spur its downfall, it looked good doing it…

A beautifully functional piece of Retro-Futurism, Bay Station is a potent reminder to the lost optimism surrounding LRT expansion in the early ‘80s.

Poor, poor President Tory. One would think a building named after the founder of Alberta’s largest university would inspire its students — instead, all this building inspires is an overwhelming sense of dread and heightened anxiety.

To some it’s a Modernist masterpiece. To others a “12-storey middle finger to the legislature.” Whatever you think, you won’t have much longer to argue — this tower’s reached the end of the line.

Once located in downtown Edmonton, this “Wall of Remembrance” now serves as the backdrop for a military Field of Honour in the city’s Northwest.