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Originally Posted by morgin
I'm legitimately missing your point here, since earlier you were being sarcastic about wanting more 50 story brown glass boxes. I'm assuming you want to preserve historical buildings in Calgary.
I posted a sarcastic image regarding our ugly apartment block buildings to make a point about how not everything is worth saving, that had the old cruddy calgary medical building in it, which is now the U of C downtown campus. A building where the economics made sense to gut a building down to its core and totally rebuild it, keeping very few of the original design elements. What the UofC did is kind of the antithesis of preservation. They literally could have torn the building down and rebuilt what they did, and aside from some inner concrete and steel, it would have had about as much in common with what used to be there as it does now (not much).
Which is all kind of an aside to the point that no one thought that original Calgary Medical Centre building was worth keeping, and the U of C had a cash crunch and decided to reuse an ugly building for its foundations and some concrete to essentially put an entire new building around.
Edit: I mean, put it this way. If Brookfield could use any part of the herald building in the design of their new tower complex to reduce the development costs, I'm sure they would. However, since it's an old run down ugly piece of crap with no value to anyone, they won't. End of story.
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You're legitimately missing that there wasn't a point here. Ugh, all I did was post a picture of the current state of the building you posted and now I have to debate architectural preservation with you?