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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker
We're poor so we get the cheapest architecture firms that design your strip malls and ask them to design schools, government buildings, etc. Then we tell them hey you need to add colourful clapboard like this... and hand them a picture of the rowhouse districts... and this is what they all come up with, independently of each other. It's like the evolution of eyes. And they are SO proud of themselves. And to be honest they probably win awards for it at their STRIP MALLS ONTARIO EXPO 2019 conferences.
I would bet a KIDNEY that you dig into everyone involved with that Timmins school and our province was somehow involved.
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I laughed at what you wrote. I was going to mention that an architect who designed many of the buildings here is Roch Belair. He was based in Timmins for the longest time and now lives in Sudbury but still designs most projects here and also many elsewhere in Northern Ontario. Some of his designs are hideous. And if the institution being built is associated with anything francophone then he ALWAYS gets selected to design it as he is Franco-Ontarian. (schools, caisse-populaire, cultural centre, social services, etc.) His trademark is having triangular peaks (and sometimes weird angle peaks) on his buildings. I might feature some of his ugly designs on here. I'm pretty certain that he did the redesign of the school I posted....
BUT....
I researched a bit and found out that his company merged with a number of architectural companies in 2014 from different provinces to become Architecture 49. And one of those companies that was part of the merger was AE Consultants based in St. John's NL!!!
So SHH, I think you are correct!
https://www.northernontariobusiness....al-firm-370479
http://architecture49.com/