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Originally Posted by chowhou
Oh yes, because tourists absolutely flock to Vancouver to view 500 Dunsmuir. Or are they coming to see 487 Helmcken? No, no, it must be 2627 Dundas that they're coming to see! Aren't you one of the people that rags on others for calling Vancouver a world class city? Surely you're not trying to compare 500 Dunsmuir to the Colosseum.  |
I think you know that's now what I was saying. Your post made it sound like there was absolutely no value in preserving heritage buildings anywhere and it is clear tourists to many parts of the world don't think so. Many residents of those places don't think so.
if you look at my comment, my preferred solution is they use the facade for the base of a tower to add some interesting street detail.
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Originally Posted by chowhou
It's so ironic you bring up Paris because, as I'm sure others have pointed out to you many times in the past, around the time of Vancouver's founding they decided that the old city of Paris was crap and dangerous and inefficient and needed to be demolished so they tore down everything to build the Paris of today. The Hastings Mills Store is older than most of Paris. |
And yet they didn't clear the Hausman version of the city for a forest of glass towers. The outcry over Tour Montaparnasse brought a halt to any though of doing that. Why do you think that was?
Schloss Neuschwanstein isn't any older than Vancouver yet draws huge amounts of visitors because of its historicist style.
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