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Originally Posted by RyeJay
From the article:
Joe Metlege has had to put on hold his $150-million redevelopment project of Fenwick Tower, originally built in 1969. Last month, permits in hand and work about to begin, he discovered the corners on one side of the 12th floor of the 34-storey apartment building would protrude 3.5 feet into the viewplane from Citadel Hill to the harbour.
He alerted the city.
A part of me wishes he didn't alert the city.
Would anyone have noticed 3.5 feet...all the way from the hill?  |
Good article, I found this quite interesting:
"The encroachment, caused by a new glass skin that was to be put on tower’s exterior, is indiscernible to the naked eye from Citadel Hill, which is about a kilometre away. It has been described by Robert Stapells, the former city councillor who helped created the viewplane rules, as the “equivalent of attaching a sewing needle to the building.”
points out how ridiculous it really is.