What do you think of this project?


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The library and this building are about two different things. The architecture of this building was top notch but had to be scaled back - presumably over money. The library was an architectural abomination from day one - no amount of money could help that thing.
Sort of. The library had to be scaled back due to money too, but I agree the concept was weak to begin with. Doing it on the cheap just made it very obvious and even worse.
 

Yes, this image most accurately reflects the design of this beautiful building and although no signs of it yet, hopefully the outdoor space, which can add significantly to the vibrancy of a street, will also be an 8 out of 10 for what's depicted in the render.

While we can't afford to replace most of our smaller parking lots with a $118 million building of mostly public money, it's certainly a win when we get a few like this and the downtown park for $45 million.
 
Yes, this image most accurately reflects the design of this beautiful building and although no signs of it yet, hopefully the outdoor space, which can add significantly to the vibrancy of a street, will also be an 8 out of 10 for what's depicted in the render.

While we can't afford to replace most of our smaller parking lots with a $118 million building of mostly public money, it's certainly a win when we get a few like this and the downtown park for $45 million.
I agree it should not be up to governments to build something on every downtown surface parking lot, much of the effort will have to come from the private sector.

It is up governments, the city in particular, to make downtown vibrancy and safety more of a priority so that can happen.
 
As usual, in person is much better. But from a block south on 97st looking back, this building looks great.

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As usual, in person is much better. But from a block south on 97st looking back, this building looks great.

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The building raises the appearance of the entire street and is a good anchor for cleaning up Boyle if a new forward thinking city council offered developers an incentive to build mid rise housing in a walkable up scale community.
 
This designer -- Architect is from Hong Kong.
Don't forget that what we got - and which I have given an 8 out of 10 - isn't actually what Andrew designed for us. This is:


For Edmonton (or anywhere else for that matter), this would have been a 12 out of 10. The location of the architect had little or nothing to do with the value engineering his design was subjected to after being selected (something Edmonton is way too experienced at and suffers greatly from). It's a credit to him that we got what we did get.

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It's also worth noting that while the practice is based in Hong Kong, the firm has done some extremely high quality - and some outstanding precedent work for Winspear - all over the world.

Bromberg is from the US and received his Master’s degree in architecture at the Southern California Institute of Architecture and University of Washington after completing his Bachler’s degree in Environmental Design from University of Colorado and Arizona State University a few years earlier (all of which are pretty close to your neck of the woods no?).
 

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