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Originally Posted by killer_carlson
Why?
Do you have something against Calgary's ranching and oil history and traditions?
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London didn't make Wembley Stadium look like a tudor-style house. Beijing didn't make make their Olympic stadium look like a pagoda. There are cities with 50x time the history of Calgary that aren't afraid to build things that are future-facing.
In the long run, the whole "cowboy" thing will be just a sliver in time for this city (and honestly, Calgary was never the wild west the Stampede would like you to believe). Do we really have to stuck in that mode for the rest of eternity? Nothing wrong with appreciating that part of our past, but that shouldn't define who we are with
everything going forward.
Look at the Saddledome...it has a nod to the past with it's shape (that may or may not have been the intention), but the materials and aesthetics don't look old or westerny. It was state of the art at the time, and looked to the future. It's time to do the same.