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Originally Posted by pspeid
I'm impressed with the way the new contemporary architecture is being matched with the existing older building. While they are vastly different styles, to my eye they seem to "fit" well together, and in the area as a whole.
Am I just being a hopeless civic booster (guilty) or does our new downtown construction seem to fit extremely well with older existing buildings? It seems like new construction always used to look extremely out of place next to some of our elegant older buildings, but now the combination of contemporary design and older structures seems to "work" for me.
Has anyone else noticed this, or am I delusional?
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Totally agree – I think though that part of that is that we have way more new and significantly renovated building now than we did 10 years ago, so styles/eras and new builds seem to blend way better, just because there's way more variety overall. When everything was grey and beige 10-15 years ago, anything else stood out like crazy.
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Originally Posted by dennis
I agree except for the alt hotel and Mitchell Copp jewelers
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I took a friend for a walk by there the other day to show them how stupid Mitchell Copp looks. His response, and he's not a building guy: "why didn't they just make it part of the building?"