Let me tell you a story.
The year is 2125.
The Alberni by Kengo Kuma was bought in the year 2106 by Holborn Group at the behest of its cyber-CEO Joo Kim Tiah-bot.
For the past 10 years it has sat vacant. Before that it had been used as low income housing. 100 years ago it contained some of the most expensive real estate in Vancouver.
Today it has been officially been condemned.
Protestors have gathered outside, decrying the loss of our city's heritage.
"When this building was built, it was considered the peak of luxury!"
"We don't build beautiful glass towers anymore, all we build are soulless transparent aluminum arcologies!"
"This historic building was built when people actually cared about craftsmanship and was built with actual human labour instead of being mass printed by nanobots."
"Why do we keep tearing down our city's rich history!? Yes I live in a $100 million dollar remodeled Vancouver Special passed down in my family for 6 generations why do you ask?"
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If you think that's silly, imagine how someone in 1920 would feel about the Dunsmuir Hotel being so fetishised today.
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