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Originally Posted by FactaNV
Agreed, but just purely for aesthetic purposes I'd like to see some gaps filled South of Portage and West of Main St. It's too bad about the SkyCity ponzi scheme, the tower would have actually been lovely.if built.
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Towers have large servicing area and few Winnipeg developers have chosen to put it underground throughout the entirety of the modernist era. The required multi-level basement can be offset by expanding outward. For example, a signature tower among mid rise blocks. The majority of taller towers going up in respective Canadian cities aren't adding or creating quality urbanism because that signature tower becomes two or three with minimal spacing and on a podium encompassing half to the entire development block over separate mid rise blocks with landscaped interior corridors.