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Old Posted Dec 8, 2019, 3:53 AM
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Originally Posted by skylinegazer View Post
Here's Reid Centre that was proposed for Victoria in 1970. As much as I like high-rise buildings, the brutalist architecture and the height of the towers in this location is too much for me. The site remains a parking lot to this day.

There's more about the project in Dorothy Mindenhall's book Unbuilt Victoria - https://www.dundurn.com/books/Unbuilt-Victoria

That would have been bad. A parking lot at least doesn’t ruin the harbour view.
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