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Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere
Far from it. This building will be square, herald quarter will be a rectangle. This will have squared off corners, herald square will have rounded. Not to mention that they will have completely different heights requiring different steel levels and less elevators.
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I agree, I don't see any similarities at all other than the fact that they aren't masterpiece's... really, what do people actually expect? It's a freakin office tower.
Bay Adelaide West and the original Herald Square looked like carbon-copies, but Bay Adelaide East and the new Herald Square proposal are categorically different. BAE will be a featureless blue box while Herald square will have a tapering form going from 40 meters wide at the bottom to probably about 30 wide at the top, 90 degree corners at the bottom forming into rounded corners at the top, with a major lighting feature in the crown. Plus a really nice public plaza to the south of the main tower on the Southeast corner of the block, across from Calgary's beautiful Hudson's Bay Company building.