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Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper
I get it. It's a large, dated building that is only 12 storeys tall right beside the core. Insert supertall. I don't expect you to know Toronto and understand its nuances. I will just say planning a great city is usually not that simple as making everything taller. It's not the worst place for a supertall. It's far from perfect either.
Exceptional design is wishful thinking and "significant site" has been the go to in rationalizing supertall obsessions that it has lost most of its significance. What makes this site any more significant than a hundred or even a thousand other sites?
A quality reskin would do a lot for this aging building that actually has some qualities not found in today's office warehouses. For example, the large floor pate is broken up by a full height atrium.
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I never suggested that planning a great city is only about bumping up the height. In fact, my planning education and work experience has taught me much to the contrary.
I was only making a personal observation about a singular site and conducting an exercise that many people do -- imagining what might be fun, or exciting, or attractive in one's own eyes when they look at something and imagine what it could otherwise be.
I will refrain from conducting this exercise out loud in the Canada forum in the future, lest I be swooped in on by those that police the forum with impunity so that they may immediately set me straight. Thank you for the lesson learned.