Western Canadian Place Downtown Calgary

These twin golden towers are on the west side of downtown Calgary; they were completed in 1983 as part of one of the many oil booms that Alberta experiences. They were originally owned by Husky Oil and marked as such at the top of the towers; since then, Husky was taken over by another energy company called Cenovus and then sold, as they didn't need the extra office space. Since then, they have been renamed Western Canadian Place. I ahve looked at them for much of my life as part of the skyline and thought it was time to take a bit of an adventure inside.

The first thing you see going in the main entrance is the garden on the lobby level with some interesting Indigenous artwork. I wanted to take a tour of the Plus 15s, so this made for a good starting point. The Plus 15s are a series of bridges and passageways on the 2nd level throughout downtown Calgary that lead from one end to the other. It is meant to make downtown more walkable in the winter, and I was really curious to see what I would find. The first leg headed west took me to a long walkway where there were a dozen painted cow sculptures that looked like part of a larger project. Soon I will write about the next legs of this adventure, so stay tuned.