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Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper
I couldn't care less about the bloated price tag. There is nothing to promote about the reclad happening in Quebec. It's just average. Worst still, the end result is two expansive complexes of towers will all look the same.
The whole Eastern Block look of Ottawa is fitting. The architecture shares many cues with standard "infill" (for lack of a better word) in Quebec however, for some reason it comes across as government developed housing than Griffintown. I guess its Ontario except that the oversized transit oriented skyscraper villages in the GTA (and mainly proposed at this point) don't look like socialized housing for the working class on the surface.
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I knew you would be the first person to comment
I wholeheartedly disagree that Ottawa has an 'Eastern Block' look in it's 2020s development, and I have spent significant time in Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Poland over the past year. The worst thing happening in Ottawa is the 'CharcWhite' trend propagated by Roderick Lahey Architecture and NEUF, but that hasn't spread to the 90m+ towers thankfully. Look at the projects I mentioned on my last post and you'll see that the city is finally progressing in architectural design and breaking out of the tabletop.