PVM: where are its influences?
On Quel Avenir, François Cardinal deplores how while Place Ville-Marie was a strong design gesture, the city has drifted into a period of unimaginative, imitative buildings. He’s right that it’s not necessarily expensive to think more originally (although that’s to handwave the pressure to make buildings out of stock sizes and shapes to save money).
Doobish 17:12 on 2012/09/15 Permalink
I have to agree. Other than the IBM-Marathon tower, the CCA building and the PaC museum, very few of our post-60s buildings are worth a second look.