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Originally Posted by niwell
I had the pleasure of being in Calgary when the Bowfort Towers had just been unveiled, and drove by to see them. For the one brief second you can actually see them from a car. To me the ugliest things about it are:
-The City's insistence in putting Public Art at the side of major highways as part of major infrastructure projects. Put the money aside and do something in a park. Landscaping is fine along a highway.
-The overwrought reaction in the public sphere as a result of the towers. The rhetoric had basically devolved into "art is for downtown elite losers who want to suck taxpayers money!!!!".
Other than that, yeah, the towers themselves are kinda ugly. At best they are horribly misplaced.
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Well when taxpayers see the price tag on art like the Blue "c*k" ring you can see why they get a bit over zealous when it comes to how public art is managed.