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Originally Posted by Table 5
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.
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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.