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The only plus i see is that when it collapsed it left the wall of the collapsed building butting up against the wall of the surviving buildings - this may allow some extra support for a while to prevent those from collapsing. The ones beside it were I believe older than the ones that collapsed, but I am unsure the extent of the stone used, whether it was just superficial in the front or if those buildings are actually structurally stronger than the ones that collapsed. Either way there are MANY angry people commenting on this.

And yes, I did call this, and the tivoli, because both had very clear intents of demolition by neglect. Personally, whatever is built here should have some sort of rebuilding of the facade like they did with radio arts. I mean look at the lister annex - it feels cold and sterile compared to what was built there before - is this our fate? Esp in the core? They already destroyed a lot of beautiful buildings in the core - is it the fate to destroy ALL of them? Is the right house next? The point of having a victorian park in the center was a quiet oasis that you could look around and marvel at the beauty around you.. not look at giant monolithic banks and office buildings..

I just want our core to be USED again.. its such a strange feeling to have an almost entire south side of the gore not be useable and not be walkable. At least they are repairing the area further east. I agree though that the city has to expropriate this land - and that the land going forward SHOULD be expropriated after certain amt of years of neglect. This is just as much the city's fault as it is the developers.
 
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Emergency Demolition is underway from yesterday after the November 11 building collapse.

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It's crazy when you look at how they were designed though, literally just brick with holes for wood to go across, and some plaster slapped on top. And they stood for as long as they did.
 
Smh.. looks like they finally got what they wanted.. now how fast do you think they'll make plans for some generic cheap facade to put here.. just terrible.. should have never been allowed.. did they save the stone off the front at least?
 
How many years do you think Blanchard sits on the vacant land. Maybe he should be made to have a parkette installed versus likely chain link fence holding a landscape of broken brick.
 
Sure doesn't look like they took good care of it - it looks like they demolished it, let the stone pieces fall to the ground and THEN set them aside - they all looked damaged - wtf is wrong with our city??

I hope they are required to remake each of those facades.. It feels malicious at this point - what was the incentive to demolish the OTHER two? They were still standing - this feels like "well maybe noone will notice that we demolished everything and we can just apologize for it after (go go hurry up and knock the rest down)"

You can even see where the stone's been warped by the demolition equipment.. this is just so wrong..

who knew that the umbrella academy would actually be predicting OUR future..

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Chronamut said:
Sure doesn't look like they took good care of it - it looks like they demolished it, let the stone pieces fall to the ground and THEN set them aside - they all looked damaged - wtf is wrong with our city??

I hope they are required to remake each of those facades.. It feels malicious at this point - what was the incentive to demolish the OTHER two? They were still standing - this feels like "well maybe noone will notice that we demolished everything and we can just apologize for it after (go go hurry up and knock the rest down)"

You can even see where the stone's been warped by the demolition equipment.. this is just so wrong..

who knew that the umbrella academy would actually be predicting OUR future..

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A city engineer recommended the demolition today. They had no choice.
 
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A city engineer recommended the demolition today. They had no choice.
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Alright fair enough - it's more in HOW they demolished it that I have an issue with - of course I would have had to have observed how they took them down but compare the removal of this facade with say william thomas or the pieces on the royal connaught - none of the pieces on THIS facade look salvageable.

It's like taking a backhoe to a face of a building, watching it collapse and then sifting through what's left and placing it on skids..
 
I don’t have the energy to comment on this anymore, if I ever did. I thought maybe we’d keep the one that didn’t fall, but I guess not. Losing this entire set is visceral.

This ambivalence is so much worse than misguided renewal. The city should be eating the owner alive… yet we have perhaps the worst heritage framework in the province, and there’s no hiding it now.

Every pitfall this city faces rears it’s ugly head when crap comes to a head. Its all so distant from what UT usually sees that many here just don’t realize how bad it is. Even I thought this was behind us. And, as usual, it’s crickets from everyone in power in Hamilton, elsewhere, and higher up the chain.

I digress. The news of losing the final building today has struck a deeper chord for me.

This is a loss for everyone.
 
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