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Originally Posted by rousseau
Hate, hate, hate Hamilton's skyline. I'm allowed to say this because I'm from there.
It has precisely one good building. Which is actually fantastic. But the other office buildings are terrible, and the residential towers got slapped up in the 1960s and 70s during the dying moments of the "tower-in-the-park" era. They feature lawns in front or are just generally set back way too far from the street with driveways arcing up to the front door. Truly bleak, but the worst part is that they almost destroyed Hamilton's most charming neighbourhood, Durand, were it not for community activists who worked to put a stop to the developers before they ruined it entirely.
Hamilton's skyline embodies everything that was wrong with urban North America in the 20th century.
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Those complaints are mostly street level interaction based, which are a totally separate issue from skyline. I will admit that some of the buildings have poor street interaction, but most of them are on quite residential streets that feed customers into nearby commercial streets. Not every street in a city will be a commercial route, and most of the buildings that were built on commercial streets have much better street interaction.
As for the buildings impact on the skyline, that's totally personal taste. By building style Hamilton is my favourite skyline. A minimum number of depressing office towers set in a sea of human residential buildings. It could be bigger, but it's the right type of buildings.
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