Recent content by UrbanFervour

I thought I was going to get an update on Cosburn Station ... but I think I wrong turned at the middle school mean girl chat room.😂

Calls to mind the famous quote: "We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us"... Not sure what kind of citizens this kind of crap architecture is meant to shape...but I guess we'll find out! 😳

There goes the neighbourhood...

There goes the neighbourhood!

Right... Why should anyone ever have to pay for anything at all? Let's just put this $100M piece of infrastructure and all the maintenance and operations costs it will require over its lifespan to the magical credit card that makes everything free.

I Like the idea of a gondola that can be used all year - so people can go snowshoeing and X-country skiing, skating etc. in the winter. But... hyperbole alert... paying $13 to take a water taxi to the island instead of paying the $9.11 return ticket charged by the City doesn't exactly elevate...

I think they will be the ones laughing at us.

The crane is cool, structurally interesting, and could become a signpost, a flagpole, an observation deck, a light installation, a bungee-jumping platform, or something else someday. Not only that, it represents a layer of development and history. It's the preservation of layers of history that...

Ookwemin Minising is a perfectly fine name- but to Northern Light's point, most people are going to garble and mispronounce it because it is not spelled phonetically in the Latin alphabet. It is very likely that most people will mispronounce it as "OOK-whemmin" . If the Ojibway word is...

Looks like they've also jumped on the hot Toronto trend of scalloped precast for the podium (COBE, GH3)... I think I prefer a scalloped precast trend to a trend for buildings "inspired by the AIDS quilt" (per HPA & the previous iteration).

I think a larger scale is ok here but not (yet) another generic bohemoth with a mediocre 2.5 storey house facade retention pinned onto it. This typology has become such a bad joke. I don't think preserving the heritage facades is a great win. In this scheme or in the previous one. They aren't...

Brutalism is "in" again. It just goes to show how architecture can be trendy and disposable, just like fashion.

Finally we're getting the gimcrack PoMo Acropolis we've always wanted and needed.

It would have been easy to use pavers with a pink or even a taupe tint to warm up the otherwise somber architecture. We are getting another expanse of greyness. Before someone says "it can't be done", the same architect/developer team sourced red and brown pavers at Woodward's in Vancouver and...

Did HPA draw inspiration from spina bifida?