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Originally Posted by ponyboycurtis
Good article but it feels like it was published a year late.
I don't mind the existing tower as much as I did when it first when up. It's not offensive. It's just kind of bleh. It weirdly pays homage to the building it replaced in a way.
I wish the ground floor against the sidewalk had some type of colonnade. I don't have an idea of how you make that work in the footprint but its offensive on the sidewalk level in it's current state. The plinth that goes around the front of the building was falling apart on day one.
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I wish they would have gone ahead with the plan to use the old structure and add to it. The current ground floor is really quite bad, I agree, with very narrow sidewalks. The old Union Canada building had a (admittedly narrow) colonnade and much of it was 2 floors high, creating more openness. What we got is far worse than what was there before, both from a design and street level perspective.
Streetview of its predecessor.
I'm happy with the new proposal of a free standing structure. The previously planned expansion would have looked tacked on and out of place, creating the start of another great wall of Rideau. I do wish the skywalk was only one floor.