If You Could Build a New Tallest!!! - Page 2

Andy6 · #21 Posted **Jun 2, 2007, 1:42 AM**

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Ok, I think I've seen it then. It's kinda V shaped eh?

Yes, it's basically a triangle, so it looks v-shaped on the corners.

bomberguy · #22 Posted **Jun 2, 2007, 2:31 AM**

Few pictures of the Curry Building over here.
http://canada.archiseek.com/manitoba..._building.html

vid · #23 Posted **Jun 2, 2007, 5:27 AM**

Ok I have seen it I just didn't know what it was.

It would make a great base for a modern tower, similar to Hearst in New York, which I believe was also planned to be a taller building that never came to be.

I don't think it would fit in so well in Winnipeg, but it would look great in Calgary, much better than the Bow. I don't really like it. The same architect can have ups and downs, and Bow is one of Foster's downs.

Andy6 · #24 Posted **Jun 2, 2007, 1:52 PM**

I don't really think the Curry Building needs any additions or changes. There are lots of other places for office towers should there be a need for one in Winnipeg, which there isn't.

newflyer · #25 Posted **Jun 2, 2007, 3:43 PM**

The empty lot on Elise ans Nortre Dame would be a great spot for an office tower.

Brokenhead · #26 Posted **Jun 2, 2007, 4:34 PM**

Notre Dame and Portage

Moved to Notre Dame and Elice

vid · #27 Posted **Jun 2, 2007, 10:27 PM**

Shorten it about 10% and it would look great at Notre Dame and Elice.

Brokenhead · #28 Posted **Jul 20, 2007, 3:03 AM**

Was playing with SketchUp to try to make a more realistic model. Used some photoshop, but I sucked at it.

^^^The glare should come from looking from the other side.

newflyer · #29 Posted **Jul 20, 2007, 3:29 AM**

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Was playing with SketchUp to try to make a more realistic model. Used some photoshop, but I sucked at it.

Damn.... thats great!!!

How about we calgary-it-up .. and make it a twin. Maybe the second could be 60% the hieght of the first... or is that being greedy.

Greco Roman · #30 Posted **Jul 20, 2007, 3:30 AM**

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I don't really think the Curry Building needs any additions or changes. There are lots of other places for office towers should there be a need for one in Winnipeg, which there isn't.

From reading some of your previous posts, I'm getting the impression that you don't want Winnipeg to grow or change; not even a little. Even though you are in "the big TO", you have the classic Winnipeg mentality.

Greco Roman · #31 Posted **Jul 20, 2007, 3:32 AM**

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Originally Posted by newflyer

Damn.... thats great!!!

How about we calgary-it-up .. and make it a twin. Maybe the second could be 60% the hieght of the first... or is that being greedy.

I see you guys are toying with us Winnipeg believers again with these rendering

The Jabroni · #32 Posted **Jul 20, 2007, 4:00 AM**

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Originally Posted by newflyer

Damn.... thats great!!!

How about we calgary-it-up .. and make it a twin. Maybe the second could be 60% the hieght of the first... or is that being greedy.

I don't see why not. After all, we have been snafu'd of a second/twin tower here, TWICE!!

DowntownBooster · #33 Posted **Jul 20, 2007, 4:15 PM**

I think a tower like that would look great across the street from the MTS Centre (former location of A & B Sound). If not there, another good spot would be on the south pad over Winnipeg Square. Putting a tower at that location would be a great boon to the shops below as well as providing office workers easy access to the skywalk system.

Andy6 · #34 Posted **Jul 20, 2007, 5:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by Greco Roman

From reading some of your previous posts, I'm getting the impression that you don't want Winnipeg to grow or change; not even a little. Even though you are in "the big TO", you have the classic Winnipeg mentality.

Actually, being in the "big TO" I can see what tall buildings do for a city, which is precisely nothing.

I certainly don't want magnificent historic buildings torn down or wrecked with additions, which unfortunately is not the classic Winnipeg mentality --otherwise we would not have garbage such as the Commodity Exchange Tower and other recent eyesores littering the downtown core.

Brokenhead · #35 Posted **Jul 20, 2007, 5:09 PM**

I have to agree, the Commodity Exchange Tower demolished too many buildings. If they would of built the other tower, I think it would of been better and worthwhile.

The Jabroni · #36 Posted **Jul 20, 2007, 10:49 PM**

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I have to agree, the Commodity Exchange Tower demolished too many buildings. If they would of built the other tower, I think it would of been better and worthwhile.

If they built the second tower AND the hotel in between, then it would have been DEFINITELY worthwhile.

J-MAN · #37 Posted **Jul 20, 2007, 11:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by Brokenhead

Was playing with SketchUp to try to make a more realistic model. Used some photoshop, but I sucked at it.

^^^The glare should come from looking from the other side.

Thats lookin nice

we could seriously use that