Dan416
Senior Member
Though likely unintentional, the entrance reminds me a bit of a humpback whale's mouth, wherein the glass represents the whale's baleen plates:
I also thought it looked like a (humpback) whale.
Though likely unintentional, the entrance reminds me a bit of a humpback whale's mouth, wherein the glass represents the whale's baleen plates:
Personally I thought the site is more suited to the so called "landsape buildings" where landscaping and the building structure merges. Oh well, it's not to be.
AoD
Which raises the question, why not build it largely underground as was done with the south end of the Convention centre.
^Or they could just add an extra floor to the aquarium. It's not like the current design is anything but a random collection of shapes.
And I'm imagining the logistics of having a heavy tank of squid, sharks and jellyfish above a convention centre wouldn't really make much financial sense, especially when you are losing money from ticket sales to essentially give free squid-viewing to conventioneers. Not that I'm against free squid-viewing or weird combos of uses - I just don't think it's in the cards.
As for a public square: do people actually want to hang out at the base of the CN Tower? Isn't this one of the reasons why we put podiums on towers, so that a giant wall of concrete doesn't make passersby feel like gnats? The CN Tower is really only a monument when viewed from a distance. Up close, it could just be any tall building, due to the lack of scale.
It's annoying. I've been complaining about it for years. Torontonians seem to have this attitude that doing things half assed is okay. I find it very strange.
Will it be the 2nd largest in the world like Okinawa? Probably not, but this project isn't aiming for that anyway.
If we're waiting for a world leading aquarium in a cold climate city, we'll be waiting a long time.