adma
Superstar
Again, do those fins serve some kind of LEED solar-collector-type purpose? In which case, I can excuse their underwhelmingness on functional grounds...
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junctionist
Senior Member
That's not that imaginative anymore. That kind of art-deco reference has been done to death. Even the TD Canada Trust tower a short walk away has such a defined top.
Secret Agent
New Member
....and building a glass box is quite imaginative.
junctionist
Senior Member
Well, if you want imaginative, then proposing an alternative unimaginative feature isn't the logical move. Be it modernist box or another postmodern box with lid, it'll be called as it is. I'm tired of the attitude that generic historical references are somehow a step up from modernist functional elegance.
Tuscani01
Senior Member
To some people, it is. Its all about opinion. Who are you to tell people what they should and shouldn't like? I personally like B.A as it is, though I wish it were a bit taller. If someone else thinks the roof should have been done differently, oh well. Its their opinion. Good for them.
junctionist
Senior Member
Of course, I'm not going to dictate opinions, but I do enjoy challenging that perception that token historical references or ornamentation makes for a better building, because I think that upon further deliberation few people will accept that. Those who enjoy imaginative buildings I suspect enjoy creativity, and perhaps originality or wit. No generic modernist or postmodern piece will satisfy in the long run.
maestro
Senior Member
It's a dangerous path to take to simply accept other's misguided opinions and not call them on it. Just Imagine the Seagram Building with a Chrysler Building spire or Fox News given congressional powers
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condovo
Senior Member
The fins and the reconstructed facades certainly seem like token historical references and ornamentation to me, which don't actually make the building better.
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BermudaTO37
Active Member
simply Dan
Active Member
What an excellent vantage point!
BermudaTO37
Active Member
Thanks. It was amazing. Totally enjoyed it.
junctionist
Senior Member
The retention of the facade and attaching it to a new building is a different matter. It's done more for heritage purposes as compromise with city hall rather than for explicit ornamentation. The historical references and ornamentation of postmodernism which I speak of would be on the new facade, if they existed.
The "fins" are likely there just to enhance the aesthetics rather than for some functional purpose like for solar panels. They're so minimal that I wouldn't cite them as a postmodern gesture.
adma
Superstar
Or even as much of an explicit gesture at all except for "visual refinement", no different from Miesian I-beams or whatnot in 50s/60s modernism. I think a lot of you are making more of them than you really ought to...
jaborandi
Active Member
Real nice - thanks BermudaTO37!
lightarchitect
Active Member
Great picture.... saved it as my desktop.