Bogtrotter
Senior Member
Hmm, I like the way shangri-la is shaping up but FS still edges it out for me. Clewes hit a grandslam wih this one.
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Urban Shocker
Doyenne
Buildings transform as you approach them. From a distance, they can be appreciated as sculptural forms on the horizon. The visual foreshortening that occurs when you stand at the base of a tall tower such as this one, and look up, is an antidote to the irrational "fear of heights" that motivates the NIMBYs.
Register123
Active Member
That sounds counterintuitive - seeing a building up close it appears shorter because you have a fear of heights? Or did you mean to say it seems taller because you have a fear of heights. Regardless, I don't any such fears, it was just an observation that a few of us shared.
ProjectEnd
Superstar
Neither, you've misread.
Lansdown
Banned
I can comprehend Kant easily and I have no idea what UrbanShocker was trying to convey.
steveve
Senior Member
24 May 2011--best highrise built in past 12 years?
i said this at SSP, but the lower base of the north side (the one clad in black with the random windows) reminds me of the rear end of the FS opera house on university,
ProjectEnd
Superstar
That you read and 'comprehend' eighteenth-century philosophy ('easily,' no less) has little to do with your *very real* misreading of Shocker's first sentence: "Buildings transform as you approach them." When boasting about all you know, it's best to re-read what you've originally quarreled with once or twice first.
Lansdude
Active Member
It was no boast, merely hyperbole meant to indicate that it was poorly written. I reread it several times.
Register123
Active Member
Yes buildings transform as you approach them, that's not the part that doesn't make sense.
Traynor
Senior Member
It's not worth arguing over... US drinks in her dotage. Many of her afternoon ramblings are incoherent. Better to catch her early in the morning.
Redroom Studios
Senior Member
to simplify, what he was saying was: the way to shut up NIMBY's who complain about buildings being too tall is to have them stand at the base of one, because from that perspective the height is completely hidden.
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ventrems
Guest
Some shots looking south from Minto Quantum South Tower (Yonge & Eglinton) over the past few years. Wish I had taken more!
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buildup
Senior Member
I Cant comprehend Kant, but what US said is straightforward. Her posts are some the most thoughtful on this site, you should complain about mine.
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Urban Shocker
Doyenne
Thank you, darling.
steveve
Senior Member
May 2011:
freakin sweet!
Preview of the epicness that was doors open 2011... i'm sure you guys all got up to snap some pics!
here's 1 photo for tonight.
Taken today:
thousands of pics coming tomorrow. not just from the TD Centre.
