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Originally Posted by Sacamano
It'd be a disservice to Vancouver to start dropping in precast gothic historicism among its glass towers for the sake of, "at least it's not another glass box" or to build glass towers on victorian inspired townhouse pedestal.
On that note, I love the black window frames on many of the concrete clad towers you see in the metro area.
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I like the black window frames too, it works well with a lot of the west-coast looking towers from 2001-2003 (by that i mean the ones with the butterfly roofs and cantilevered hats). But I hate the painted concrete...
Another point about the sameness of materials... glass isn't going to go away any time soon; in fact as technology further reduces heat loss and solar gain, people are simply going to want maximum transparency, views and light, in a city that doesn't have much of the latter. Vancouver by nature,
has to be a city of glass. That said, there's still plenty to work with within that framework, though we've barely begun to explore it.
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