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Originally Posted by Pinion
Nice old building, but shitty at street level. And new builds aren't any better.
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It adds variety though. A lot of Vancouver feels over-planned, full of airy glass boxes that technically do a good job of satisfying rules on an individual level but are not creative or appealing in aggregate. The best urban areas have a lot of diversity in building forms. Many cities got this by accident since they grew slowly over a long period of time; Vancouver's at a bit of a disadvantage as a new city.
I agree that most of the new buildings in New West are of somewhat low quality. A lot of the condos from a few years ago were covered in precast. Some of the newer developments look higher end but incredibly generic. There's almost nothing new that I would describe as interesting architecture. Maybe the Anvil Centre, sort of? It's one of those angular blob buildings; it looks like the ROM crystal after several additional rounds of cutbacks.