06-04-2017, 05:28 PM
(06-04-2017, 05:01 PM)panamaniac Wrote:(06-04-2017, 02:54 PM)plam Wrote: That would be good. It seems to me like it requires a certain amount of coordination, either by the BIA or the municipal government, that our current leadership would be unlikely to exercise.
Another example of awnings is those on St.-Hubert in Montreal: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/s...-1.3968022. Those glass awnings seem to be city-owned somehow. I'm fine with awnings like those.
I also have no problem with public interior spaces but I think the issue is that there is no constituency that will care for them.
It was a disaster when Ottawa installed glass canopies along Rideau Street (long since removed).
How so? And don’t forget it was also turned into a bus mall. Plus the canopies had a weird design that meant that immediately outside of some of the doors there was a roofless bit, but 1m away there was more roofed area (outside). And again, what is the mechanism by which a roof is theorized to destroy a street? It simply doesn’t make sense, especially in our climate. The promise of roofing technology is too great to give up on just because of a few poorly designed failed experiments. Imagine, some day most of our shops and workplaces could have roofs over them!