Posted Oct 13, 2022, 7:21 PM
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video et taceo
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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Stockholm
Posts: 13,883
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It (edit: First Canadian Place) was also something like the 6th tallest building in the world at that time.
Toronto is if anything less audacious than it once was. It had a 600m proposal in the 70s, I think it would have been around College Park.
If it weren't for the CN Tower it would really be a visual peer to San Francisco -- taller, admittedly, but also a little less rich in historic detail.
I have been on this forum for like 20 years and like all of us, I went pretty reliably from the "skyscrapers are awesome" bit through to "mixed-use urbanism with streetwalls and transit and etc."
Which is all good.
But maybe it's time to get back to the roots. 1,500 feet in my childhood hometown!
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