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Originally Posted by SidetrackedSue
Having caught up on this post, one thing that strikes me is the living Hell the people in the Metropole, Barclay, Upperwest, and 1025 Richmond are going through right now. The LRT construction is noisy and messy and disrupting access to one's home.
As well, with all the other towers going up along Scott and Richmond, I wonder if the buildings will 'disappear' into the background. Although part of the Barclay's magic is that it has never really dominated the skyline (unlike the Metropole which is how I find my home when looking at skyline shots.)
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I think it will be many years before our current heavyweights in those areas disappear. If anything.. in a strange way, the fact that we develop so slowly compared to a city like Toronto where a lot of buildings look the same we could arguably have a nicer blend of concrete communist blocks merging into Miami style condos like Upperwest. Yonge and Eglinton is an interesting location where there is a pile of older buildings... slim, wide, rectangular buildings from the 70s that are all to common place here meshed with a slew of newer towers that are 3x the height. Ottawa definitely has a gentler blend of all types of buildings for better or worse.
1025 Richmond will definitely lose its prominence though, if that big 3 tower dealy goes up next to it.
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