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Originally Posted by _Citizen_Dane_
The Public Building has long been one of my Calgary favourites, despite its sort of awkward proportions. According to Trevor Boddy in his book Modern Architecture in Alberta, a British theatre consultants report from 1979 disagreed and derided it as being as "another third rate example of colonial architecture" which is kind of hilariously mean.
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Sort of awkward? When I find architecture like this I just tell myself the stupidity of the proportions and placement of features was on purpose. The architect was having fun.
Although, if we're going to fantasize, that would be a very handsome building if it were about 20 storeys taller.