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Originally Posted by OldDartmouthMark
Again, to restate the point of my post, imagination shouldn't cost obscene amounts of money - a skilful architect should be able to add visual interest on a budget.
And also again, this is only my opinion. The rest of the city might think that this proposal is a beautiful design and so be it if they do... I don't expect everybody to agree with my ideas.
FWIW, I did originally say that it won't be any worse than what is there at the moment, but just that Spring Garden Road deserves better than this proposal as one of Halifax's busiest and most influential downtown streets. If we want to take it up to the next level as the centre of fashionable shopping in the city, then we need to excel beyond the status quo.
Or, we could just marinate in our complacency and build glass boxes...
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Good on you Old Mark....!
- Yes this is a cheap horrible design.
- Yes a lot more can be done without breaking the bank.
- Yes developers have been blowing these types of buildings by everyone for the past ten years and passing them off as modern.
- Yes this design is faux modern.
- Yes Spring Garden deserves more.
- Yes we have no real Design Review Committee.
- Halifax doesn't have to do faux heritage, a real architect would look at surrounding buildings of significance, look at past buildings of significance and come up with a modern design that reflects the quality of the past but has a modern forward thinking appearance. A true building of Halifax which this is not.