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Originally Posted by someone123
That looks pretty nice but I think this area should probably be a heritage district already. If you look closely at the beige vinyl siding apartment buildings you'll see that they're quite old. They may have masonry construction on the upper floors and even if not they could look incredible if they were renovated in a way similar to a bunch of Hal Forbes projects.
Meanwhile this project or something similar could be built in many other locations with inferior buildings or no buildings.
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Originally Posted by Drybrain
Yeah, it's a good proposal but it's a terrible location for it. The building there now, properly restored, would be a beautiful period-appropriate complement to the building across the street, and would really enhance the coming conservation district.
This is very nice, but you could build it anywhere. There aren't many early 19th-century Italianate urban buildings in Canada.
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I see the stone masonry at street level on the Bishop street side of the beige house -- so, let me get this straight, someone put freaking vinyl beige siding on top of masonry and stone walls?!!?!?