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Buildings you'd like to obliterate...

Okay, these lists are getting ridiculously long. Just drop 'the bomb' on us, and get it over with. Then in 3 generations your children's children's children can run a design competish to replace it all.

New City Hall? Blasphemy!

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Hmm... The NPS redesign competition should include redesigning the city hall building itself...

Think curves of glass :)
 
That's called The Bow and it's being built in Calgary.

When the spotlights modulate slightly on the walls of the City Hall towers at night I find it rather calming and pleasant.

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MBS said:
Hmm... The NPS redesign competition should include redesigning the city hall building itself...

Think curves of glass :)
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And while we're at it, redesign Old City Hall to make it a little less unyielding and formidable. Perhaps a glass recladding as well? (Though, keep the tower as-is. It's a "landmark".)

Nyuk, nyuk.
 
adma said:
And while we're at it, redesign Old City Hall to make it a little less unyielding and formidable. Perhaps a glass recladding as well? (Though, keep the tower as-is. It's a "landmark".)

Nyuk, nyuk.
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Adma,

It needs a Clewes Condo™ to rise from the courtyard. That would save it, also knock out the back and put in an above ground parking garage. It is saving most of the structure, so it is more than acceptable anyhow. It no longer serves its purpose as a city hall, so there's no excuse for it to be redone.
 
ROCP - which looms over Old City Hall when you look up Bay Street from the south - would join my list of buildings to obliterate, and not just because it is such a weak design. Views of civic buildings like Old City Hall, which once represented the democratic heart of Toronto to the world, should definitely be a part of what is considered as heritage and therefore worthy of protection.
 
New City Hall (but make sure that Miller and many of the left wing councilors are inside) when it's knocked down.

Also, the eyesore on the ROM, and all of the portlands
 
xstatik:

New City Hall (but make sure that Miller and many of the left wing councilors are inside) when it's knocked down.
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Sorry, knocking things down costs money that the city doesn't have. Perhaps penny pinching Ford can cause a structural failure and have the building declared a dangerous structure just by sitting on a beam for a prolonged period?

AoD
 
SeanTrans said:
Adma,

It needs a Clewes Condoâ„¢ to rise from the courtyard. That would save it, also knock out the back and put in an above ground parking garage. It is saving most of the structure, so it is more than acceptable anyhow. It no longer serves its purpose as a city hall, so there's no excuse for it to be redone.
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That was one proposal for the opera, back in the early '90s. The auditorium would have been build in the quadrangle.
 
anybody mention The Atrium on Bay? It would probably blend in quite nicely along the airport strip, but why did they have to take up an entire block right in the middle of downtown? It creates a giant hole in the skyline...
 
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