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Originally Posted by Drybrain
It looks like the brick-and-glass building will be torn down and the green house will be moved to its current lot. The building to the west of that will be torn down, and the yellow house with the turret, which is currently up the block a bit, will be moved a few metres to the east. The house on the corner will be torn down altogether.
So two Victorians lost. The best of them will be preserved, but still. I'm not too bothered, given the density boost and the effort to save the others, but I'd be a lot happier if the new buildings were of higher quality.
And yeah, as someone said above, Kassner Goodspeed doesn't inspire great confidence.
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You can't save everything, for sure, but at least you can hope for a good trade-off. Density is a good one.
If the materials are of low quality it won't look much different than most other new buildings going up in Halifax these days, so it's not like we're lowering our standards or anything.
Also, IMHO, in today's architectural climate it appears that all new towers are being designed with a mish-mash of materials. So it's pretty much a given that we will have unattractive towers, with 4 or 5 different finishes competing for attention, until a better style becomes popular.
At least there will be a lot of bicycles around to bother Keith...