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Mississauga City Hall is an example of High Post-modern.
These examples are Low Post-modern. aka Lo-po.
These examples are Low Post-modern. aka Lo-po.
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Name this architectural "style"
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Rose Theatre. I don't think it's that bad compared to those Lo-Po (I like that one, CDL) buildings above.
Now, Brampton City Hall, that's Po-Mo, and I'm not a big fan. Though it's not quite Lo-Po bad.
Now, Brampton City Hall, that's Po-Mo, and I'm not a big fan. Though it's not quite Lo-Po bad.
CDL.TO
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Rose Theatre is certainly PoMo, but seems to derive its vocabulary from somewhere else than most PoMo structures.
Rose Theatre says to me "A grain silo f**ked a church". All it needs is some PoMo stained glass in those big windows. The roofline above reminds me of a barn, so maybe a general "Farm ate a church" would be more appropriate.
I think Brampton City Hall is solidly Lo-Po. Hipster Duck should add it to his original post.
Rose Theatre says to me "A grain silo f**ked a church". All it needs is some PoMo stained glass in those big windows. The roofline above reminds me of a barn, so maybe a general "Farm ate a church" would be more appropriate.
I think Brampton City Hall is solidly Lo-Po. Hipster Duck should add it to his original post.
AndreaPalladio
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To me it says "If you squint, you might think it's Convocation Hall." But that's in a city, not a suburban wasteland.
Hipster Duck
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scarberiankhatru
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I've defended PoMo in the past, but lord knows I can't defend the menace of orangey pink brick + turquoisey green metal...it feels like my childhood took place in such buildings.
CDL.TO
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Excellent!
Hopefully I should be able to fire off a book during Christmas break to solidify my position. Interchange will be authoring the accompanying book "Modern Movements in Architecture: The Language of The Cheapening" (working title). If the books are a success we'll round up a few more UT members and pitch "What not to Build" to A&E.
The logical progression of LoPo is Low Modernism, or LoMo.
adma
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How on earth is this LoPo?
Or even this (whatever it is)?
Or even this (whatever it is)?
unimaginative2
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That's Waterloo City Hall.
CDL.TO
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I agree that Innis College is not LoPo. It has no round bits, pointy bits, or other such "PoMo checklist" features. It's just has reams of brick.
How old is it? I thought Waterloo City Hall was in a nondescript office building?
scarberiankhatru
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adma
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I still don't think Waterloo City Hall qualifies as LoPo. It's more of a watered-down version of an 80s Jack Diamond vocabulary.
The Rose Theatre, though, absolutely qualifies--maybe it's (unfortunately) what WCH might have looked like had it been built a decade or two later. Really flyover-state Bush's AmeriKKKa in its vocabulary.
The tragedy of the US/Zephyr principled objection to Bobby Stoin's 1 St Tommy is that it'd apply much more appropriately to the Rose Theatre, to the point where even *I'd* side with them, to some extent...
The Rose Theatre, though, absolutely qualifies--maybe it's (unfortunately) what WCH might have looked like had it been built a decade or two later. Really flyover-state Bush's AmeriKKKa in its vocabulary.
The tragedy of the US/Zephyr principled objection to Bobby Stoin's 1 St Tommy is that it'd apply much more appropriately to the Rose Theatre, to the point where even *I'd* side with them, to some extent...
unimaginative2
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That is the "nondescript office building." It was built in the late 80s. While it's pretty unimpressive compared to Kitchener City Hall (or the infamous "Taj Mahal" Regional Health and Social Services building that looms over it across the street), it is a fairly functional city hall building. It does have a few other tenants, but the vast majority of the space is used by municipal offices. My guess is that they're slowly pushing the other tenants out over time.
Adma's assessment of the style is quite accurate. Waterloo has its own Barton Myers right down the street at the Seagram Museum, now Centre for International Governance Innovation.
Adma's assessment of the style is quite accurate. Waterloo has its own Barton Myers right down the street at the Seagram Museum, now Centre for International Governance Innovation.
CDL.TO
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Naw, that's definitely a City Hall as nondescript as it may be. Looks like a high school. But for some reason I thought Waterloo was located in an actual "office building". Like Richmond Hill or Cambridge.
ssk
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Those seem like they were designed by people who design strip-malls, so I'll call it mall-ratism.