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Originally Posted by dleung
there's a rumour going around that in BC they purposely make hospitals look ugly, so that the health authority can show how poor it is in order to secure more funding? Royal Jubilee Patient Care Centre in Victoria comes to mind. Why do new buildings choose the color palette of 1960's hodge-podge renovations...
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The less cynical side of this is new hospitals might look ugly because health authorities know they shouldn't waste money that could be used on equipment/amenities/doctors on architectural niceness.
But is that really new? Do we consider Vancouver General, Richmond, and Burnaby hospitals examples of hospital architecture of a bygone era? They all look more like factories than government buildings to me.