Calla

Calla is Qualex-Landmark's quiet answer to its own towers: a 12-storey, 168-home mid-rise completed in 2014 on 14 Avenue, designed by Rafii Architects with BKDI to feel garden-scaled rather than skyline-scaled. Named for the lily and conceived around greenery and light, it deliberately steps out of the height race the developer otherwise led, offering a lower-density, park-adjacent alternative on the Beltline's calm south-western blocks.

For buyers who want the Qualex build quality and Rafii design language without a 30-storey tower's elevator queues and fee base, Calla is the family's boutique option — closer to the ground, closer to the street trees, and closer to 17th Avenue than most of its taller siblings.

Rafii Architects — the Vancouver practice behind Stella, Nova and Luna — designed Calla for Qualex-Landmark with local BKDI Architects, completing in 2014. At 12 storeys it is by design the family's mid-rise, its massing tuned to the residential scale of the blocks between 14 Avenue and 17 Avenue. The assessment roll's 2011 date reflects the construction cycle; completion is dated 2014.

The 168 homes emphasize one- and two-bedroom plans with the garden-inspired outlook the building was marketed on — many suites open to greenery or the quiet street rather than to a tower's mid-air void. The mid-rise height means fewer units per floor and a more intimate corridor experience than the sisters. Registered-plan measurements govern any specific unit.

Public sources report a fitness room and shared owners' spaces; the building's true amenity is its scale and landscaping rather than a stacked amenity floor. Confirm the current inventory and any garden/courtyard maintenance arrangements in the bylaws and budget — landscaping is a real line item in a building that sells itself on greenery.

Underground parkade with titled and assigned arrangements varying by unit; storage lockers likewise — confirm on title. The location suits car-light living: 17th Avenue's services are two blocks south, Central Memorial Park two blocks east, and the 14 Avenue bikeway connects to the district grid.

The 6th Street SW platform sits roughly 756 straight-line metres north — a ten-to-twelve-minute walk into the free-fare downtown zone. The station distance is the trade for the address's calm; in exchange, 17th Avenue's full strip, Central Memorial Park and the Connaught pocket's cafés are all within a five-minute walk, and frequent avenue transit fills the gap.

Calla sits in the Connaught/Uptown pocket of the west Beltline — leafy numbered streets, the Memorial Park library and green space nearby, and 17th Avenue's energy close enough to walk to but far enough to escape. It is one of the district's most residential corners, which is exactly what a garden-scaled mid-rise was designed to complement. Buyers who want quiet over spectacle gravitate here.

A 2014 reinforced-concrete mid-rise now entering its first reserve-fund study cycle in earnest. Read the study, the envelope and elevator planning, the landscaping/courtyard maintenance provisions, and the insurance deductibles. The corporation's structural drawings, engineering records and reserve-fund study define the slab system and its maintenance history.

For Calla: the reserve-fund study and how it treats the building's landscaping and lower-density economics; insurance deductibles; pet, rental and short-term-stay bylaws; and titled parking and storage by search. A mid-rise spreads major costs across fewer owners than a tower — understand the fee base against the sisters before assuming boutique means cheaper.