I agree with you wolvarine and p69rrh51, this kind of building is easily saved and with proper care will give our cities a much richer environment than the wholesale destruction even if replaced by a glazed tower. The best projects I've seen in Montreal in the past thirty years have been overhauls into condos or offices from industrial bldgs. This is a personal opinion, but I really like bldgs with history, that is why I am looking for an old house in the city. I am not a condo lover but I appreciate the work that has gone into redesigning older bldgs in my city, the landscaping and integration with bike paths along the Lachine canal in particular. Detroit has the quality buildings to refurbish a downtown and midtown without adding on massive unprepossessing architecture in some cases.
I hope the market forces of sprawliness and unattentiveness to the built environment take a turn toward caring for historical or at least lived in architecture. Besides there are 40 year old buildings shedding their concrete skins onto pedestrians too...
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montre...killed745.html
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