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Originally Posted by trofirhen
At this point, perhaps it is important to remind people that sheer height isn't everything. Quality of design, a beautiful aesthetic, and harmony with surrounding buildings are as, if not more important, than height alone.
A good example is Montréal, a city I love (and, jlousa, I believe I read a remark by you stating your appreciation for it as well ...). Over twice the size of Vancouver, and with a goodly collection of downtown skyscrapers to be sure, but none of them are nearly as tall as Toronto's, yet in my opinion much more elegant and better placed.
If we strive for higher buildings here in Vancouver, great!! But height for the sake of height isn't everything, and doesn't necessarily indicate the importance of a city.
Let's go for some taller buildings; yes, yes, and yes! But if we focus on maintaining, and developing, a classically beautiful aesthetic in the new tall buildings we DO put up, to me, that's even more important than just height for height's sake.
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PS: Thanks Raggedy! Great stuff ... as always! |
i think van got a good style of combination of architecture, surely looks worldly without judging its height. shanghai is the "tallest city", among the cities that i have visited. and the one with the most skyscrapers, that city is just too city, u cannot focus deeply within urself to find peace, everywhere has stuff happening...sometimes peacefulness is a luxury, if van can offer more jobs, higher paid ones, this is heavenly....the rain is fine,for the money.
and the georgia looks quite fine to me, just that it's still 150ish, perhaps a little short these days...