[WhipperSnapper]

Waterloo design cues appear influenced from current Eastern European aesthetics whereas Ottawa appears a mash up of Ontario's multi-family post war boom from 70 years ago and current Quebec designs. Similar but, distinct.

I'm big on aesthetics when it comes to creating environments but, currently in Canada, how a tower looks feels less important from the political pressure through incentives and breaks to maximizing housing with oversized scale and massing or, in a small community of hundreds or thousands, multi-family apartment complexes that aren't in demand but will end up making the community less affordable.