Mark on 10th
Mark on 10th stands at 901 10 Avenue SW, at 9 Street, in the west end of the Beltline. It reaches 35 storeys and 274 homes, and it finished in 2016. Qualex-Landmark developed it. Rafii Architects designed it and ITC Construction Group built it.
The amenity level holds a fitness centre, with a steam room and a sauna behind it. Private change rooms sit beyond. The rooftop level, named Altitude 330, carries a hot tub, a barbecue, a fire pit, and a sunbathing patio, with an interior lounge behind glass. The owners’ lounge downstairs carries a wet bar, a billiards table, a media centre, and lounge seating. A guest suite is available for visiting family, and a landscaped garden sits on the podium.
Underground parking is titled and heated, and visitor stalls and bike storage sit below it. Each home takes an assigned storage locker. A concierge and building security work from the two-storey lobby, and three high-speed elevators serve the tower.
The building
The tower is the fifth of six Qualex-Landmark projects in the Beltline, a run the trade press summarised by calling the company king of the Beltline. Foad Rafii was design architect across that run, so Mark on 10th shares its authorship with Stella, Nova, Luna, and Calla a few blocks east. The cladding reads as beige panels with yellow, blue, and green spandrel accents, which is a warmer palette than the glass towers around it.
The building carries a large-scale public artwork by Douglas Coupland called Interpretation of Calgary. It was Coupland's first work at that scale in Alberta, and it is the reason this tower gets written about more than its neighbours.
What sits around it
The Beltline runs from 17 Avenue SW north to the CP tracks, and from 14 Street SW east to the Elbow River. It is one of the densest communities in Calgary and it was assembled in 2003 out of the older communities of Connaught and Victoria Park, both of which date to the years before the First World War. The name comes from a streetcar route.
17 Avenue SW is the district's south edge, the retail and entertainment strip that picked up the Red Mile name during the 2004 Flames run. The 7 Avenue transit corridor is four blocks north, with 8 Street SW and 7 Street SW stations serving both CTrain lines. Central Memorial Park, a National Historic Site since 2018, sits east along 12 Avenue.
We wrote about the community around it. Living in Beltline.
