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Originally Posted by lio45
Sorry to be negative (by Canadian standards, I guess we should already be grateful it wasn't razed and replaced by a standalone Tim Horton's with drive thru) but... first off, the bars-less windows suck, but worst of all is the architectural treatment of the cornice - that stupid blank 'headband' is horrible, what were they thinking? (ran out of budget? couldn't just restore/keep original cornice detail?)
The top, correctly done, should look somewhat like this:
[img] http://www.boweryalliance.org/images...oorCornice.jpg[ /img]
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This was something commonly done, unfortunately, seeing that modern a/c ventilation does not require windows that open in offices. It also looks like they either ran out of money or preferred a kind of nouveau minimalist cherry picking approach to heritage to fit modern aesthetics, similar to the way we choose to re-write history to fit our convenient narrative.