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Old Posted Feb 25, 2009, 4:57 PM
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Originally Posted by mackeast View Post
That concept plan might as well be a rip of off the 1960's UW buildings inside ring road. Weak use of the space, regardless of how 'dense' it is going to be. So much opportunity to create an intense island of dynamic urbansim, but this is going to miss the mark: it's a surburban model for school building.
Finally, I thought I was the only person who wasn't ready to nominate this project of the century. Hopefully the architecture in the concept plan is just that - a concept. This literally looks like it was designed by a time traveler from the 60's who spent a few weeks in the year 2009 reading about being green.

What happened to striving to win another governor's general award? I understand the desire to fit in with the surrounding area but I am not at all head-over-heals in love with this proposal like the rest of the city. I expected a lot more.
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