11-07-2014, 03:34 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-07-2014, 03:48 PM by BuildingScout.)
One should also add the local Mennonite heritage which frowns into displays of "vanity". Anyways, whatever the causes were it explains the lack of representatives from that period. The Davis Centre really seems to have brought back the focus of the region to architecture and Kitchener city hall reinforced the message.
p.s. Dana Porter, the city libraries and the court houses tried a little bit by incorporating what were, at the time, modern touches: white/greyish facades with small windows of weird aspect ratios and saddle roof touches (hyperbolic paraboloids) which dated faster than 1950's car fins.
p.p.s. Galt Collegiate, absolutely, what an oversight on my part! KCI it's not to my liking, while rather ornate to me it feels like they were just going through the motions until the facade was sufficiently baroque.
p.s. Dana Porter, the city libraries and the court houses tried a little bit by incorporating what were, at the time, modern touches: white/greyish facades with small windows of weird aspect ratios and saddle roof touches (hyperbolic paraboloids) which dated faster than 1950's car fins.
p.p.s. Galt Collegiate, absolutely, what an oversight on my part! KCI it's not to my liking, while rather ornate to me it feels like they were just going through the motions until the facade was sufficiently baroque.