junctionist
Senior Member
There's reflective glass… and then there's mirror glass. I'm not a fan of mirror glass: buildings become a completely blank slate and devoid of apparent life. To me, that's anti-urban.
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I like the 1980s and 1990s mirrored-glass towers with unusual profiles like the Nestle Building and the Cadillac Fairview Tower behind Old City Hall. They assume a sort of sculptural and abstract presence that can be stunning if surrounded by non-mirrored buildings like Old City Hall. The Nestle Building, for instance, evokes an obelisk. The downside is that they sometimes have a sterilizing non-presence, though I think that the good examples like the Nestle Building give more in the way of architecture and urbanism than they take away.
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