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Old 07-29-2009, 10:16 AM   #416
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Originally Posted by Table 5 View Post
If this were Vancouver or Toronto, I think you'd have a point. But unfortunately, local firms have had the chance to prove their worth over and over, and have failed to produce anything as interesting. There are a select few small-scale examples, by Eleven Eleven or Sturgess, but out of the big firms who would have a chance to design something like this, we, more often than not, get pure tripe.
Local firms aren't often asked to produce anything interesting. My wife is an architect. Local clients are conservative, and generally want plain, functional, cheap buidlings.
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