12-02-2020, 12:16 PM
(12-02-2020, 10:40 AM)Rainrider22 Wrote:I merely pointed out reasons I think this masterplan is flawed, which I thought was the point of these forums. What is it about the masterplan that you like or think is going to be a successful addition to Kitchener's urban fabric? I might give it a quick go this weekend for fun to see what I can come up with, but I am not trying to promote myself. I am not a trained city planner, nor am I looking to start a business that could take on a project of this magnitude. I can have criticism to a project without the need to provide a solutions. Firms get paid good money to produce these master plans, doesn't mean I have to agree with the final design.(12-02-2020, 09:47 AM)westwardloo Wrote: As bland as City Place is, I would take that any day from a developer like Auburn. Call me cynic, but I don't have much faith in this master plan. Seems like a glorified tower in the park kind of development. Lots of green space around the towers, and dead end private roads. Then a small little park that is smaller than the parking lot beside it. The main BLVD running through the property should have run from Sterling to Bordon making more of a grid network. No thought on how to uncover the creek running under the site and no connection to the neighbourhood south west of the train tracks. I do like the eastern corner of the development, not sure it will be a destination within Kitchener though.If you are so opposed to it, Why dont you sketch up some ideas and forward it to them and promote yourself. Maybe they will like your ideas.
Too late now I guess, we will just have to wait and see what Auburn has in store for us. Maybe they will splurge and spend some money on a couple different architects to design the buildings to give it a unique feel. (fingers cross on a Hariri Pontarini, Diamond Schmitt, Temple or even a Quadrangle).