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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse
So in a competition to design imaginary structures someone posed a strict height limit on the Halifax site for some reason causing people to lose interest and not even want to compete, yet the Vancouver site is allowed a supertall even though in reality Vancouver has strict height limits as well? Where exactly is the consistency here?
Personally I think people should be able to decide what they think is a good scale for a site regardless of any real-world restrictions, since there's no actual limit on the imaginary. But if real world restrictions are to be imposed they, it should be should be on any site that has such restrictions in the real world including Vancouver which doesn't allow supertall heights. Unless they've changed their regulations at some point?
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You're right, there is no consistency. I think the issue surfaced in the fact where we were rotating on who got to pick the site, with each person picking the ground rules for that round. Once height limits became included in the rules for round 3, it turned everyone off of the competition.
I think moving forward, if we want to keep this as a regular thing going on into the future (which I honestly would), it would be best to do things sort of like we are now, where we come to a consensus on the site and keep it free from restrictions, so we allow everyone's creative juices to flow fully. The addition of rules makes it more interesting, but it's not good for the spirit of the competition, where we are just amateurs having a go at designing our own buildings.
I also would like to revisit Halifax for the next round so we can do it right.