Bow River riverwalk design details released [Video]

The City of Calgary says work is moving ahead on a new public space along the Bow River with details of the project’s design being released on Wednesday.

The concept came from the city’s first public realm design competition that consisted of an international call for ideas.

The winning design is called Exchange – Realizing Riverwalk West and will revitalize a section of city parkland from East Village to the west end of downtown past 14 Street S.W.

“It’s a nice marriage of traditional and contemporary,” said Jared Tailfeathers, historian and Indigenous consultant with the project.

“There will be some revitalized nature walk sites and river art with natural elements. So that calls back to some traditional methods of making. There’s going to be lots of markers of points where it was really important, and there will be some public art to go along with that.”

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