Civic 66 (Weber, Scott and Pearl Pl) | 11 fl | U/C

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If I remember right, that 20 floor building was supposed to be done in a similar brutalist architectural style as 82 Weber Street East, the 2 floor office building next door to the vacant property. Naturally, that got shot down quite fast by NIMBY types in the day. It's unfortunate, because that little office building actually has a significant architectural value, so much so that there was a proposal to get it listed as a heritage building back when Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery did a big exhibition on architecture in the region (you can actually still buy the related book at the gallery, which has nice photos/history) and there was a push to get some modernist buildings listed as having heritage value to preserve them. On that point, I really hope we can save some examples of modernism here...it's one style of architecture that a lot of people look down on now and it's starting to get lost at the same rate we tried to forget post-modern architecture.