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Originally Posted by The North One
Does Canada have the ability to build anything other than generic condos with balconies?
It looks extremely ugly and is exactly the same as the stuff built in the 90's and 2000's. Move on already.
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to each their own, but i think calling it ugly is pretty insulting... not all towers can be trophies and these are both inoffensive and varied enough for urban infill. even if they fit the same mold of glass + balconies they have different shapes and sizes and colors.
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Originally Posted by The North One
It's just disappointing that this is Canada's era of growth and this has become such a prominent development form in the country for decades now, they're essentially suburbs in the sky, how is all this gonna age? They had a chance to develop more like say, Japan, but didn't.
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interesting. if anything i'd say these are better than many of the background highrises in (for instance) tokyo, where a lot of housing is in older modernist concrete blocks.