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Originally Posted by saillias
You know I'll take an arena that looks what you guys are calling "bland" from the outside. What's with this expectation that they recreate the Eiffel Tower here? For that 2 second shot on CBC of the arena before puck drop? The event experience is what matters.
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There are plenty of good reasons why we should hope for, and perhaps expect, a visual icon:
- It's replacing an icon. To be an improvement, it needs to be awesome.
- Between the Peace Bridge, National Music Centre, The Bow, Telus Sky, etc., the bar for architecture in this city is being raised. If we keep this trend going, we could become known as a very cool city (and not just for our climate).
- The Flames want to be downtown/near downtown. Any location they might choose will be quite prominent.
- The Flames owners are definitely wealthy and seem to be quite civic-minded. They could and may wish to build something that the city would be proud of.
- There's a possibility it will be at least partially funded with public money. If so, it should be designed to enhance Calgary as city, and not just to increase revenues for the owners.
Edit: and oh yeah, do we really want to be upstaged by Edmoton?