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Originally Posted by cruzin4u
Can they not use those facades and incorporate them? It happens here in Toronto all the time (though sometimes it looks pretty bad).
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Well, that's a huge vote of confidence. But townhouses look decent as townhouses, not as the foot of taller skyscrapers.
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Originally Posted by njcco
Although I understand the economic rationale for its impending demise, I can remember spending very pleasant times leafing through very beautiful (and expensive) architecture books back in the 80s before the wealth of photos these hallowed pages now provide. RIP, Rizzoli, and thanks for the memories.
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Book stores in general have been on the demise.
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Originally Posted by patriotizzy
I have mixed feelings about it too, as with everyone else, but it is the sad ways of progression and development. We'll need a moment of silence when this does happen.
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It's the natural order. Hey, we won't be here forever either, and who are we to say that our old architecture would be better appreciated 100 years from now than what is being built now? What about the Manhattan of the 1800's? Imagine if nothing got torn down in the evolution of the City.
Anway, I don't believe for a second that if anyone here owned that property, and knew they could make a billion developing it, they wouldn't. Sentimentality would give way to reality.