Though my post came off as an attack on you, I was not necessarily angered by anything you said. I was simply annoyed at your cheerful acceptance (I assume you too are Canadian, or, at least, live here) of our perpetual mediocrity.
GG stated that the tower would be 'typical' and in doing so, negated the possibility that it could be something more for once one defines what something 'is,' they simultaneously, if subconsciously, define what it 'isn't.' Though the word 'bad' appears in not in my post or the original press release, the relegation of this project to the 'typical' file is as good as a rubber stamp with 'whatever' written on it. Furthermore, you could have read more into what I said and perhaps realized that my hyperbolic comments about spandrels and precast were not specific to the unknown design of #1 BlOoR, but simply examples of the materials which we too often rely on today.
Lastly, your ascription of the 'market' as the nail in 1BE's coffin is technically accurate, however I was taking issue with the notion that 1BE is the cause of that crash - something your previous post's wording implies. The market crashed for a number of reasons as we all know, and 99.9% of those reasons were things other than that building. 1BE was neither the cause of that crash, nor the sole victim of it and though many of its units had been sold - i.e. the Toronto market was able to support it - those larger, global markets, which would have financed its construction failed, and thus 1BE is dead. I think therefore, our qualm arises from the undefined term: 'market.'
But in the spirit of one of our newest members I'll simply say: Peace
