WINNIPEG| The Exchange District |Market Lands Redevelopment
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Carry over from Exchange District main thread:
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https://www.canadianarchitect.com/co...ds/1003743729/
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I am so glad that the players involved are aiming high on this project. I'm excited to see what kinds of plans the competition yields.
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Anyone else a little bummed that they're going to destroy the old public safety building? I know it is not that widely regarded for being very aesthetic, but it is a somewhat famous instance of the brutalist architecture style, which we don't have a lot of other examples of (are there any others in town?). I wonder if in 30 years people will be cursing us for demolishing it.
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That picture looks so depressing: beige, beige, beige.
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Just looked at the Exchange map above again... it has "MCCC Parkade" listed where the science centre (w/ parkade) is supposed to eventually go. Anyone know if the science centre component is being dropped now? That'd suck.
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It reminds me (in a roundabout way) of the brutal results of the Mitchell-Copp facade. It should have either been forced to be properly integrated into the building, or let it go. Now when you see it it literally looks like an "oh they made us do this" design. Looks ridiculous and isn't functional – the gates are closed most of the time and you have to enter the offices/Browns through the odd side door. |
^ I just don't think the PSB is a very good example of brutalism. I love brutalism, but I think PSB rates a solid 'meh'. Now, if someone threatened RMTC, I'd be chaining myself to the building as it's a great example of brutalism. However, PSB would not be a huge loss.
That said, it's clear that a big mistake was made when the City opted to take on the Post Office complex as police HQ instead of renovating PSB and building an expansion on that block, but that horse left the barn years ago. |
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That being said, the PSB and parkade are actually as beige as it gets and I will be glad to see them go. That block is pretty much a black hole (beige hole?) right in the middle of the west Exchange. I sincerely hope the market lands development is done right...although pretty much anything with windows would be an improvement over what's there now. |
Lol, no settling for mediocrity.
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I really like the scale they ended up with. Hope that's close to what we see built.
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They also have the benefit of being in the Downtown BIZ zone, and the DBIZ has a lot more money than Exchange BIZ. |
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Chinatowns are distinctively gimmicky, the cliche Chinese-yness of pagoda roofs, dragons and gates are not even part of modern China's architectural vernacular and haven't been for years and years. I have nothing wrong with a small grouping of Chinese or oriental businesses but maybe it's time to drop the chinatown branding and let the Exchange District absorb that area. There is not much in 'Chinatown' and i cant see it ever growing past what it is now, like calling Provencher 'The French Quarter' it's deceiving to outsiders and rather disappointing. It will never be a thriving bustling Chinatown like SanFran or Toronto, with Market Lands coming along that area is better suited for organic Exchange District growth.
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^ Calling it Chinatown and playing it up in tourism documents sets up unrealistic expectations. If there was even one decent block then I wouldn't take issue with keeping it on the map, but when this is what your best block looks like then it's probably best to just stay hush-hush about it. Chinatown is basically a historical footnote at this point.
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