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Originally Posted by osirisboy
Yea I highly doubt your rant will end there
All your posts are basically the same. Vancouver lacks "class" and "elegance" etc. we get it!!!
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Please excuse me, but may I take you up on that a little bit?
It's true I've often criticised something for lacking class or elegance, but there is also a lot about Vancouver that
is classy and elegant, given its relative medium, and only recently-achieved size, and its lack of being an historical coprporate base, as
connect2source pointed out.
The Georgia Canyon gives it "big city" feel and though the Hotel Vancouver has been criticised, it, Cathedral Place, and Christ Church Cathedral enhance the "Manhattanish" feeling somehow.* (however mini-scale that may be).
Soon there will be a lower Howe street "canyon, starting with 980, that "European-scale" block of buildings opposite Robson Square, past the Pacific Centre and TD Tower, then across Georgia past the Four Seasons, The Georgia tower, down past what will become the "Echange" (Credit Suisse tower) and the elegant buildings opposite, on down.
OK, The MNP Tower and Marine building. I think the consensus is unanimous there. And West Hastings itself has some fine buildings around it, (Jameson House, CIBC, Terminal City Tower, and the old RB building further down) and is another piece of street that lends that "established big city" feeling to Vancouver.
Burrard, from Georgia down to Hastings, is impressive and rather more spread out, giving perhaps an almost small-scale Dallas / Houstonish feeling, but a great, and ceremonial, stretch of downtown street nevertheless, with buildings spiffy enough for any major city, (focussing, I guess, on Park Place and Bentall 5).
Wall Centre is tall, sleek, and beautiful.
The buildings on Howe opposite to what will be The Exchange on Howe invite - perhaps - a similar treatment. The one right opposite is older, but classy looking, and understated (polished stone and elegant arches on the large front windows, plus a rather nicely designed roof section).
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I see enormous potential (as does everyone here) in Vancouver, and I just hope we don't blow it any further like, IMO, the old Birks Building. (imagine if that had been given the similar treatment as the Credit Suisse "Exchange"?)
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