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Originally Posted by flameswin
Yep, like MMF said, new buildings shouldn't be built to fit in with our old ones, or to not take away from the skyline. Each new building should be trying to out-do the last new, cutting edge building.
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I do think buildings should be designed into their context, but Calgary just needed to be jolted out of it's design funk. So many mediocre towers had been build in this city, I'm glad someone just decided to ignore them, and give us something truly contemporary.
And just like many of us predicted at the time, it raised the bar for everyone else who came after it. There's no way you get something like Telus Sky here if the Bow didn't raise the bar. You'd just get more crap from Gibbs Gage with crappy cladding.