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Originally Posted by Table 5
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.
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EAP, Jameson and Centennial. The three buildings I hate most in Calgary.
The Bow is awesome, and obviously way better than any other building here. I just prefered the look of the old skyline.
A similar comparison would be Oklahoma City, which looks ridiculous now.