Personally, I think the National Portrait Gallery is better resolved architecturally. Unfortunately both are likely beyond the abilities of our little provincial backwater though.
Ooof, way over the top. Those are practically this!
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AlvinofDiaspar
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Personally, I think the National Portrait Gallery is better resolved architecturally. Unfortunately both are likely beyond the abilities of our little provincial backwater though.
They can always get Seele (no, not the Evangelion one) to do what they did at the Well.
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UtakataNoAnnex
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A stylish quality court yard atrium...not a full blown acid trip. Not that the latter is entirely a bad thing...Ooof, way over the top. Those are practically this!
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AlvinofDiaspar
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A stylish quality court yard atrium...not a full blown acid trip. Not that the latter is entirely a bad thing...
Inappropriate for this context though.
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I wonder if something more appropriate for our context might be a multi-ridged glass roof supported on four mass timber posts, one at each corner, and only laying gently on the existing roof, without putting any structural stress on it that would require rebuilding within the attics. Mass timber would match with our times, complement the brick, and be more of a nod to our vast forests than to Fosterized atria.
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Monarch Butterfly
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The temporary House of Commons, while Centre Block is undergoing renovations, is housed within an atrium in the West Block building on Parliament Hil
Maybe City Hall could offer Queen's Park to use the Old City Hall as temporary use by Queens Park, should they start their own renovations on the Ontario Legislature Building. On second thought, with the speed Queens Park handles its own projects, better not. It would take too long.
Maybe City Hall could offer Queen's Park to use the Old City Hall as temporary use by Queens Park, should they start their own renovations on the Ontario Legislature Building. On second thought, with the speed Queens Park handles its own projects, better not. It would take too long.
UtakataNoAnnex
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Fair point!
DSCToronto
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We were in Old City hall yesterday, the presence of pay phones, plus a place for a paper directory seemed like an early exhibit in the suggested Museum of Toronto!
AlvinofDiaspar
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From the Globe by @AlexBozikovic:
www.theglobeandmail.com
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Toronto’s Old City Hall is a chance to think big, but timid bureaucracy is stifling its potential
Two city departments and a platoon of consultants are ‘reimagining’ Old City Hall, smothering it in bureaucratic fog
www.theglobeandmail.com
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Monarch Butterfly
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Expect to see former city hall bureaucrats to create private sector consulting companies to do the needed work. And pay them the big bucks for the extra time needed to come up with the same ideas they already have.From the Globe by @AlexBozikovic:
Toronto’s Old City Hall is a chance to think big, but timid bureaucracy is stifling its potential
Two city departments and a platoon of consultants are ‘reimagining’ Old City Hall, smothering it in bureaucratic fog
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