Forget the Aga Khan Award for Architecture Award or the Pritzker Architecture Prize Award. Waterloo Region needs to pioneer a "What the Hell were they Thinking?" Award. Waterloo Region would come out on top.
This project is so, so, so ugly. Money prevailed, in the end. Some of the architects on the team for this project objected to the aesthetic and material choices being made, but because the developer was only interested in profit, any actual will to develop nice architecture was shot down. Doesn't matter if Peter Zumthor or Alvaro Siza design your buildings, they'll only be as good as what the developer wants to invest in.
This project is so, so, so ugly. Money prevailed, in the end. Some of the architects on the team for this project objected to the aesthetic and material choices being made, but because the developer was only interested in profit, any actual will to develop nice architecture was shot down. Doesn't matter if Peter Zumthor or Alvaro Siza design your buildings, they'll only be as good as what the developer wants to invest in.