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Originally Posted by coolmillion
I agree. I learned an interesting thing about the design concept of the Trillium recently. Maybe this is widely known but it was news to me... The ground floor retail is meant to represent the past, the middle levels are meant to be the present and the top is supposed to evoke the future. It ends up coming off like a mish-mash of different styles and materials. It is post-modern in the way that buildings of the 1990s were post-modern. I wonder how much of the design work was done in house (Fares has architects on staff).
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Interesting design concept but totally unsuccessful IMO, that said, it's a 'pleasant' structure and enhances the area but looks like the design has been sitting in a drawer somewhere for 15 years
If I hadn't kept track the construction thread, I'd swear it was from 1998 if I'd just seen it for the first time. Has all the key 1990's cues seen in Vancouver many times over. You're bang-on with your 1990's 'post-modern' reference!