. . . . . the lessons learned are germane and can be distilled and transformed onto a larger scale.
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Melrose Market
. . . . .the development bar continues to be raised on the Hill, and that is a most welcomed trend, and one we should wholeheartedly support.
Read MoreMontreal's Grand Bibliotheque
The Grand Bibliotheque is one of the great examples of contemporary architecture that makes Montreal a truly metropolitan city.
Read MoreCapitol Hill Buildings, Examples 3 and 4
Here is the next pair of buildings we have looked at. One beloved, one probably barely recognized. But isn't that part of the beauty of the excercise, to find charm in both the exemplary and the ordinary?
Vancouver Olympic Housing
Urbanistically, the milieu is only half cooked – not even close to enough units have been sold to support the complex as a whole. There is little to no pedestrian traffic, and the plaza is as vacant as the storefronts that surround it.
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