jaborandi
Active Member
The two buildings that kicked this conversation off are hardly strip malls and McDonald's drive-throughs. If you don't want to seriously discuss something why not just ignore the thread?
I apologize if I sounded condescending - I was using your logic in the same subjective way that you are using it. It's heartening to know that there are people out there like yourself who care about the city and it's history.
I have nothing against saving old buildings. I'm very much in favour of preserving our architectural heritage when it is worth saving but we can not save every mediocre building (again subjective) just because they are old. I think there has to be some architectural merit. As I mentioned a couple of days ago in the 400 Wellington thread, I was saddened at the loss of the garage building which was definitely worth saving. Inflicting a condo atop 500 Wellington is hardly preserving the buildings architectural integrity. There are always going to be losses if any neighbourhood is going to experience organic growth and I think the trick is to sacrifice the unworthy in order to preserve the good. You and I differ on what constitutes the good. I would like to see most of that block of Wellington Street preserved, but with a few exceptions and 500 falls into that category, much the way Camden Street does as well.