Take a look at the renderings of Frank Gehry's 3- 80+ story condos planned for King Street West in Toronto. Stunning extraordinary renderings! These buildings are iconic and from the mind of the world's foremost architect, Toronto native Gehry.
Incredibly and without consultation of the citizens of the city, the planning department recommended rejecting the privately funded buildings in order to preserve ordinary box like, uninspired structures.
These Gehry buildings are world class and stunning architectural masterpieces. We are fortunate that the city council committee rejected the planning department recommendation and referred the matter to full city council.
World class cities have to stand out and take chances with architectural genius, not lop off stories on drawings as too high, or protect ordinary box like structures because they are old and uninspired.
Greatness in a city requires people with vision and boldness, not staid, bland conservative people who lack vision and are afraid of change. If you are too scared to embrace genius and progress then lock yourself in your home and leave city building to people that want their city to be a world leader.
Anyone that thinks that 6-story box structures, or a 20-year old ordinary arts venue should be saved to prevent these Gehry structures from being built should move to a rural town in middle Canada and let bold innovators lead this city into greatness.
No comments:
Post a Comment