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Originally Posted by davidcappi
I love when canadians bring up some european city as a defence against any kind of height. A lot of Paris looks like this lmao. It's a huge city, with many different architectural styles, built at wildly different times under many different conditions. Showing some midrise Parisian blocks in a tourist area is misleading. I don't think people are arguing for height for the sake of height - they're arguing to shape the heights of buildings to provide good access to views, light and space. I'd also caution against the Mississauga hate - again, huge city, with many different areas built up at different times. Port Credit is different than Clarkson which is different than Mississauga city centre, vs streetsville/cooksville. At least they're actually constructing an LRT, have multiple go stations with all day service, and they've got 2 huge waterfront projects happening (brightwater and lakeview village)
massive difference between what westerners like to look at when they vacation and how parisian people actually live.
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at least mississaugas buildings are interesting - hamiltons new designs are just boring glass rectangles with picture frame jutout accents and precast and no top lighting. I await the day people with actual money build things of actual beauty in this city skyscraper wise..
I really don't care one way or the other about height, all I care about is that the building is built well, and has design elements that make it appealing to look at and give it value. People look at buildings to be impressed, not necessarily by the height but by the design elements of them - the ellen faircloud building is the perfect example of a universally negative reaction to design. At least with core urban I feel like they at least tried in that avenue.