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Originally Posted by fenwick16
I don't understand the desire for short buildings. They just end up having a larger bulk and in the end, look worse than a tall building.
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This is a bizarre blanket statement. Short does not equal worse just as density does not equal tall. It isn't a desire for short buildings, it is a desire for infill that creates activity at the street level, especially at this part of the city centre. This can be achieved with a tall building/podium style - ubiquitous in Vancouver - but the proposed design offers no such thing. Fat towers on a large, impressively bad podium design. On a site like this, the city is much better off with super-dense low-rise (<8 stories).
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