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Originally Posted by ssiguy
I prefer the Manitoba legislature above all of them.
Just as a fun side note, here is a little Manitoba Legislature trivia for ya.........
As soon as you enter the front of the building there are 2 very imposing solid stone buffalo on each side of a lovely central staircase. They were built for the legislature with their dimensions in mind to make sure they could fit thru the front doors. Well when they were done and delivered they realized that yes, they fit thru the doors but they weighed so much that there was no crane available to lift them up, thru the doors, and thru the short lobby to the main areas where they could use another crane. They simply weighed to much for anything to lift them very low off the ground and yet 10 meters forward.
They were screwed and at a total loss of what to do. Well when winter came someone got a bright idea and they went with it. They cleared out the entire front entry area including the inner dome area, turned on the water and flooded the whole damn thing. They then just opened the front door and let Manitoba's bone chilling cold do it's job by freezing the water and then simply sliding the buffalo into the front lobby.
And before you ask, no that is not a belated April Fools joke but rather a quirky Manitoba fact.
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This is a really neat story! didn't know that at all...thanks for sharing. The MB legislature sure has a lot of weird things about it, that for sure.
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Originally Posted by Chadillaccc
It's funny that all 3 of our cities with metro's around 750 000 have their tallest buildings all within 1.5 meters of each other I wonder if that was planned, or if it is seen as a kind of benchmark for a metro that size? Even Winnipeg's 2nd tallest is within 4 meters of this range. 3 of these 4 buildings (201 Portage [Winnipeg's tallest] was built in 1990) were built within 5 years of each other as well. Interesting...
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Well, if we go back to the time those towers were built, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Québec, Hamilton...were all much closer in size and the difference wasn't as much as it is today, so the benchmark possibility isn't likely at all. It was simply market dependent; not population dependent. For example, the Calgary market at the time demanded taller buildings due to office space demand being much higher than Winnipeg. Just how it is. The population boom and the large office core also attracted more high-rise residential developments too; variables more suited to market size than solely population size.
I think it just had more to do with office demand and all that. Also, Calgary is certainly an over-acheiver when it comes to high rises. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the Bow the tallest building in Canada outside Toronto?
(Besides, Winnipeg has taller buildings than Ottawa
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