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Originally Posted by Urban recluse
Agreed. Windows large enough to cover the entire space around the current windows would be a dramtic improvement without even recladding the exterior.
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The challenge is enlarging the windows like that would effectively amount of recladding the building. To complicate the issue, the MLLC plan had talked of consolidating the remaining medical offices onto fewer floors. The minimalistic windows were seeming done with the occupants being medical examination rooms to needing minimal windows to protect privacy. If maintaining some medical office space is still a goal you could say have half the building with the large residential windows and balconies and the other half maintain the status quo. Given unlimited funds in might make more sense to build a shorter purpose built addition on the parking lot and get the medical offices as low as possible and rework the higher floors and fit it all together with the new addition.
Another idea would be to rework the Medical Arts building to incorporate the Winnipeg Clinic and then do a redevelopment of the Winnipeg Clinic site. The Manitoba Clinic looks positively "young" compared to the Winnipeg Clinic!