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Old Posted Oct 4, 2012, 9:53 PM
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The design of that proposal was very obviously related to Rowe's Wharf in Boston, a development from the 1980s. Presumably whatever they propose now will look a bit more modern. I'm hoping they don't fall into the common trap of using "sympathy toward neighbours" to justify a weird chimera of grafted bits of Bishop's Landing and the NSP building. That is what the CD Plus replacement design looks like. It's by the same architectural firm that did Bishop's Landing.

I agree that the delay in development might be a good thing. Imagine what the Nova Centre design would have looked like 10-15 years ago. It is still not perfect but that a development at that scale has the potential to do a lot of damage (see: Metro Centre).
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