canadaniel
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Oh I’ve recently been to Westfield in Melbourne, it’s jaw dropping gorgeous!! And don’t even get me started on the glass roof at Chadstone!
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goodcitywhenfinished
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The entire built environment in Australia looks incredible compared to Canada.
I’m hoping more people start to notice this and begin asking why we can’t build well-detailed buildings with high quality material in Canada. The culture here really has to change.
And it’s not just CF. Yorkdale (Oxford), the luxury shopping Mecca of Canada, looks like a value engineered airport terminal.
Sunnyside
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To be fair... every once in a while we get a glimmer of good design. Sometimes we even see impressive upgrades to the public realm. But, it is far too sparse to be worth praising. A project here, a street treatment there... It's the exception, not the rule.
We need not look at Australia, either. Most downtowns I've visited in the Rust Belt look much cleaner, friendly and inviting than downtown Toronto, despite lacking the many key urban ingredients our Cities do, in fact, have. It's all about priorities; surely Toronto, Montreal, or Vancouver could stack up to declined cities like Detroit if we cared the same.
On some level this is a reflection of the Canadian ethos, but I don't buy that it has always been this way, nor that people actually like it this way. Unfortunately, fixing this requires major economic restructuring, for both the public and private sectors; 'just spend more' has neither been practical nor has actually delivered more things of better quality, anyway.
felix123
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Yep, Yorkdale and just about every other high-end venue in the city looks like it was designed by Canadian Tire, compared to what you get in Aus. Some of Sydney's updated train and metro stations are so beautiful that it makes me wanna throw up lol
Civdis
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And here I was about to say how much I love the transparency of the new glass. Guess I need to get out more 
GenerationLee
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Wow, that's unreal! I havent had the pleasure of seeing that transparency for myself...heck I usually am a later day visitor to the mall.
Freddy
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Very striking.
UtakataNoAnnex
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...now, if they can restore the one on the north end.