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Originally Posted by rocketphish
Interest from Frank Gehry? Wow! I can just imagine how this conversation went:
Malhotra: Frank, would you be interested in designing Ottawa's tallest building?
Gehry: Yes, definitely!
Malhotra: Would you be interested in working with Claridge to do it on the cheap... we do have a reputation to uphold here you know?
Gehry: Ah, no. Say, Bill, I'm driving through a tunnel... think I'm losing you. Click.
A Gehry building would quite likely have been awesome. Who's Pontarini anyway?
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He does some pretty interesting buildings in Toronto. You may recognize these few. I'll look more through his site for other stuff, but I like what I see. Here's his website:
Hariri Pontarini Architects.
One Bloor East
These series of towers
Shangri-La
Shangri-La by
Shel DeF on Flickr
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