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Originally Posted by delboy
Oh give it arest. As nice as it is, the convention centre is hardly iconic. its barely even noticable from ariel shots and looks more like a soccer pitch. Canada place is way more iconic and can easily be identified with vancouver
I think the renderings look great and coal harbour needs something to break up the god-awful sterile nature of the area. Over priced condos, beyond most peoples reach, are to be blamed for vancouver's steady march to resort only town, not a few boats.
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Originally Posted by Phil McAvity
Ummm, Expo86, Canada Place, The Science Center, Skytrain, the Cruise Ship Terminal, GM Place, the Convention Centre, The Winter Olympics, the Shangri-La hotel, the Canada Line, the Olympic Village, BC Place.....do you want me to keep going? If you want half-assed you need to come to Victoria. "Half-assed" should be our city's logo.
I don't know if this is the right location for the seaplanes or not but I do think the idea of a floating airport is pretty cool.
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Expo '86, Science World, Canada Place, the original SkyTrain line - not sure why you're bringing up something that was built 25-years ago, what's being discussed is what has been recently built.
GM Place - nice for the city, but sub-standard compared to arenas even when it was built. And for a North American metro for >2-million, having an indoor arena is nothing unique.
Convention Centre - aren't we discussing this right now? nice in many more ways than one, though the marina/plane terminal duo will most certainly ruin its architectural concept.
Winter Olympics - overall successful as twoNeurons pointed out, but half-assed in certain aspects such as not having the new Olympic Stadium roof done in time or how the Pacific Coliseum still looked like an antiquated POC or how tens of millions were cut in decorations, which many complained as it didn't give the city a unique "Olympic look and feel" that many previous hosts have had (come to think of it, you can't even find a permanent set of Olympic rings anywhere). This was a barebone Olympics.
The Shangri-La Hotel - what exactly is so special about it? In a major city, it's just like any other tower. Nice, but overrated.
Canada Line - absurdly short platforms, underwhelmingly poor station designs.
Th Olympic Village - the one exception.
BC Place - once again, not done in time for the Olympics. You can throw as many excuses to how we didn't have time or how it was too risky and expensive to do the retrofits, but we did have 7 years and it was quite obvious that BC Place was a pretty important venue for the Games. There's something quite retarded about building a new roof right after the world has left instead of building it in time for the Games.
And even with the $550-million budget, we still can't afford new seats? A new glass facade (replacemen of windows)? Now this project should top the list of what's half-assed.