02-25-2020, 06:49 PM
A building should be permitted to be architecturally interesting - in fact, it should be architecturally interesting. It shouldn't be entirely designed in a manner that it doesn't piss off a few NIMBY neighbours. I mean, yeah, you don't go build a 15 floor brutalist skyscraper in the middle of a suburban street, because that doesn't suit the area, but this is in the heart of downtown, on the lot of what used to be a "landmark" building. Why build something so generic and bad? There's nothing interesting about this building now...it's just there. A first year UW architecture student could have come up with something better than this thing. It looks like 20 St George (as posted above) or those Gresham Place Apartments near Fairview Park Mall, which were most definitely built in the 90s.
Though, maybe I'm just being overly critical, because this is my line of work and it's unnerving seeing prime real estate in this city being for such mediocre architecture.
Though, maybe I'm just being overly critical, because this is my line of work and it's unnerving seeing prime real estate in this city being for such mediocre architecture.