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Originally Posted by enrigue8
I started this thread for one reason.
I just want to make people aware that we can have a better architecture.
We torontonians, deserve a good and respectable architecture.Sometime we can do something extraordinary in a special place like the waterfront.
I advocate for a change here. Just build the same repetitive building style everywhere in the city is making our city worse and uninspired.
A good architecture inspire,motivate and make citizens pride of their cities.
A beautiful city make everyone happy and pride.This is why diversity is important.
If everything look similar,it just boring and sad.
Architecture is a quick way to judge a civilization. We don t have the Eiffel tower,the Egyptian pyramids,the forbidden city in China or the Opera of Sydney,but we can compensate with a good modern architecture.
We have the CN tower, but it look very old now.
I don t ask we look like Dubai or every building look exceptional ,but there is room for improvement.
Some project like 1 Yonge ,Mirvish Gehry or 2 Carlton are a very good start.
But their future is not sure,because a real estate crash can occur.
And big development should bring more to citizens.I said that because 99% of time condos tower does not bring lifestyle at all to the city.I would like more parcs, more fountains and more amenities for all citizens.
Toronto is not very good in this field too.
Every big city do it well.
New York city,Los Angeles ,Chicago,Miami or San Francisco do it very well. Why not Toronto ?
I agree that every person has it own opinion but there is a undeniable truth here folks.
If someone refuse to see that truth,they dislike Toronto and lack pride for it.
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I understand and appreciate your desire for better and better designs and built form. That said, these trendy, grandiose gesture in both architecture and urban form you swoon over rarely stand up to the classic forms beyond the original trend.
There's some amazing curvy, angular, gravity defining architecture out there however, every cover of architect's magazine inspires hundreds of architects that are simply incapable of reproducing near that quality. You can't seem to delineate one from another. Good, bad or ugly doesn't factor in with you. You judge solely on a curve, an acute angle, a pole, etc.
The undeniable truth is that your own tastes need a whole lot of study before you should be making audacious claims like Toronto is ugly.
Toronto unfortunately has fallen into the trap when it come to landscape design for many of the new or rejuvenated parks. The end result is we have a bunch of pretty parks that aren't very practical to use.