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Old Posted Dec 4, 2012, 7:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Radley77 View Post
100% thumbs down on this one. Calgary has already mastered the "Super Transnational United Amalgamated Corporation" look. I would rather see Calgary's skyline to take cues for example from things like First Nations or the Rocky Mountains, rather than global architectural trends. Great cities aren't defined by world-architecture, they define it.
It's a privately funded building so it has to work for the developer also. Sure it would be cool to see a building shaped like a lizard but in a free enterprise market it ain't gonna work.
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