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Originally Posted by CaptainYooh
Again, you are applying technical evaluation criteria to justify your personal aesthetic preferences. I believe this is a wrong and dangerous approach, (especially when used by the people in approving authorities), as it leads to creating architectural monstrosities and eyesores that "grace" city skylines forever and become "familiar monstrosities and eyesores". Calgary downtown architecture has been dominated by the same four largest architectural firms for too long; hence, craving for something exciting and out-of-the-ordinary is understandable. Unfortunately, this also means that anything non-straight and asymmetric is easily welcomed and heralded as world-class. It is not always the case.
In summary, I think our positions on this building are now quite clear and simple: you like it and I don't.  |
You are the peter12 of buildings.