[David A]

Well, here's hoping that if we manage to survive long enough, the bibliotank, too, will become iconic and beloved Not holding my breath though. And, in its defense, it is lovely inside.

Probably not coincidentally, that is a common Edmonton style theme - ugly on the outside but nice on the inside. Not sure why we often can't make more effort for the other part.

 

[Seamusmuldrew]

It wasn’t just this building - there were probably at least a dozen as prominent, some of them even more significant, and probably dozens more not as prominent but equally missed.

The one I find hardest to cope with is the post office

The commemorative clock only reminds me of what they did.

 

[David A]

I realize being downtown there are only so many places to build bigger, newer things as the city grows. I can sort of live with some old and nice buildings being gone, if the space it is filled by something decent or nicer.

What irks me, are things like our central Library building which has devolved over the decades from beautiful to ok, now to kind of ugly, even worse the Tegler site which has devolved from a nice old building into an empty lot.

 

[MattPT]

Probably not coincidentally, that is a common Edmonton style theme - ugly on the outside but nice on the inside. Not sure why we often can't make more effort for the other part.

Describes Edmonton as a whole perfectly. Ugly on the outside as you’re driving in, but once you get past the inner ring road it’s quite pretty. lol

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The commemorative clock only reminds me of what they did.

I didn’t know about this one. Luckily we held on to:

 

[Edmcowboy11]

At least we can be very thankful that nobody was able to move forward with the potential plan at one point to tear down the Hotel McDonald. Honestly, I do hope that something positive does happen on the former Tegler Building site. In the perfect world we would see a building built by a good developer that would honor the Tegler as best as possible and would bring life to this part of the downtown.