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Old Posted Sep 23, 2009, 2:53 PM
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Originally Posted by smitty67 View Post
If a mast structure was appropriate for a climate/region such as Calgary’s don’t you think that the master of all mast structures (Calatrava) would have done one himself? Instead he offered a solution that was more sympathetic to seasonal variation, rain, snow, etc. Very few of the designs in this competition actually took these issues into consideration.
Calatrava could not give us a mast structure due to the height limits imposed by the nearby heli-pad.

The question would be would Calatrava have given us another mast structure if the heli-pad had not been by it?

Edit: Beaten like a red headed stepchild.
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