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Originally Posted by ranvancan
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Piling on to sing Officedweller's praise, they're one of the most consistently informative, knowledgeable, level-headed, and positive folks on this forum. Their continuous contributions over the years (and decades) that I have been on SSP, including photos, historic knowledge, scrounging up of archival documents (most predating the internet), and bird's eye view on the CBD and Yaletown from home and work, have been tremendously welcome to me and, I dare say, to most others on SSP. It's totally fine to make a request of anyone here for specific photos or anything, but don't be snarky about it.
The incremental progress photo is (or at least was) a staple of this forum and part of why it originally interested me. It crossed over from a general interest planning and development forum to one involving construction and architecture. Hell, I learned
a lot about construction from conversations here and pouring over photos. I have found that I built upon its foundation in grad school and still use some of it in my professional life. It's won me looks of disbelief when I have been able to casually drop knowledge bombs into conversations about the minutiae of specific project's construction and earned street cred by being able to genuinely list three, four, five buildings off the top of my head - by street address and marketing name - that use X, Y, or Z architect or general contractor or a specific architectural solution.
Made up example: "Oh yeah, the structural engineering skill in this town has really come a long way. Think back to Spectrum, which was mind blowing at the time with its with rebar mega-columns and transfer slabs that looked like highway overpass bents, and then compare that to the physics-defying Vancouver House, or the angled columns 685 Pacific Boulevard or Concord Brentwood? We're in a different league now."